Erica Baum, Pause, (Piano Rolls), 2008.
Erica Baum premieres a new benefit edition installed and featured in Printed Matter’s booth for the Independent. See her piece “The Melody Indicator” in Issue 16 of Triple Canopy.
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Ilya Repin, Reading Aloud, 1878
On October 20, Triple Canopy hosted Automatic Reading, a seminar addressing the act of reading as a part of contemporary artistic practice. Here we present a recording of the seminar, in which Erica Baum, Franklin Bruno, Corina Copp, Jim Fletcher, Ariana Reines, Mónica de la Torre, and R. H. Quaytman discuss of how the legacy of conceptualism has challenged traditional notions of reading both as an exchange between an individual and a text and as a public activation of the written word.
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Erica Baum, “As it curves near the guide line SING SOFTER,” the player piano roll as poem, from The Melody Indicator, Triple Canopy, issue 16
William Gaddis. More on player pianos and “the cinders of necessity,” see “The Melody Indicator,” in Triple Canopy issue 16.
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In “The Melody Indicator,” Erica Baum turns the player piano roll into material for a poem.
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