Blank Forms 05: Aspirations of Madness vinyl record

Blank Forms 05: Aspirations of Madness vinyl recordEdited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero. Contributors and featured artists include Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, and Tomoyuki Chida. Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of

This collection invites the reader to answer

is divided into two sections: first

featuring Austin

Informed by his own work as a professional mathematician and composer

and the most devoted of fans

An enduring presence in the East Village

including tremors

her expanded just intonation ensemble

the same sense of what music ought to be

” and elaborating upon ideas first presented in the 2016 project FAVN

while Keefe

leading to collaborations with the likes of John Fahey