sotos

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Jordan

Quote from: RyanWreck on April 22, 2013, 09:49:00 PM
Quote from: NEHPF on February 26, 2013, 11:40:13 AM

Not at all, it doesn't have anything to do with Sotos. Just random digital sounding blasts of noise, pretty bad.

Quote from: Si Clark on February 26, 2013, 10:03:09 PM
Ok, thanks for letting me know.

This album does "have something to do" with Sotos, I don't know what NEHPF was listening to but it most certainly was not this. The majority of the recording is in the style of "Buyers Market" with its cut-up sample collages through-out. I believe they were pieces Sotos was going to use but ended up scrapping or that he made specifically for Martin, but in any case they are Sotos sound collages. There is some decent Noise over top and between the samples and loops, not on the same level as IRM but not just "random blasts". Here is one of the tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfxBz0G1R44

...the rest pretty much fall in line with that.

The readings are much more interesting. Haven't listened to Dirge in a while, will put it on to go to sleep since I get to sleep in my apartment for the night.

Dr Alex

Anyone have some of his works in pdf?
If yes, can you please share it with me. I have just Pure 'zines scanned.
Sotos point of view is inspiring for me. Looking forward more his works.

locustfurnace

Quote from: Dr Alex on May 13, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
Anyone have some of his works in pdf?
If yes, can you please share it with me. I have just Pure 'zines scanned.
Sotos point of view is inspiring for me. Looking forward more his works.

Here's what I have related to him >



http://www.mediafire.com/?pnldj39cy0saqyb

totalblack

Quote from: locustfurnace on May 13, 2013, 02:34:04 PM
Quote from: Dr Alex on May 13, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
Anyone have some of his works in pdf?
If yes, can you please share it with me. I have just Pure 'zines scanned.
Sotos point of view is inspiring for me. Looking forward more his works.

Here's what I have related to him >


Amazing! Thank you!

Dr Alex

Quote from: locustfurnace on May 13, 2013, 02:34:04 PM
Quote from: Dr Alex on May 13, 2013, 12:30:24 PM
Anyone have some of his works in pdf?
If yes, can you please share it with me. I have just Pure 'zines scanned.
Sotos point of view is inspiring for me. Looking forward more his works.

Here's what I have related to him >

http://www.mediafire.com/?pnldj39cy0saqyb

HUGE thanx, man!!!

totalblack

I haven't seen any mention of this anywhere, but I just got a few copies of "Home" by Sotos with photos by Michael Salerno, I gotta say it is a really beautiful overall product. Haven't gotten to dig into it yet, but a quick flip through looks promising.

SiClark

Quote from: totalblack on October 21, 2013, 10:46:13 PM
I haven't seen any mention of this anywhere, but I just got a few copies of "Home" by Sotos with photos by Michael Salerno, I gotta say it is a really beautiful overall product. Haven't gotten to dig into it yet, but a quick flip through looks promising.
Thanks for the info, nice to see a limited edition Sotos book that isn't over £50.

simulacrum

Has anyone read Home yet? I just finished it and I've got to admit that I'm not nearly as captivated by Sotos as I once was. I want to continue to pick up and comb through what earlier material of his I don't have, but I was not too impressed with Mine and Home was not very captivating. I suppose I'm just losing interest in his very fractured and disjointed skein of biopic, true crime and autobiography.
I suppose Home deals primarily with the abduction of Shasta Groene; abduction/murder of Dylan Groene, but Sotos' erratic style stabs at so much and connects with so little.
Probably what resonated most with me from this are the little stitches of commentary concerning a maniacal negro slitting the throat of a white child in the bathroom of a hotel room. He writes, "Don't let him have fucked that kid. Just put his nigger mouth on the boy. Did something worse. He wouldn't have been so identifiably insane, Dad, we can't find a single fucking reason that it makes sense. That kid isn't on this planet anymore because the shaking nigger's a maniac, that's all. You have no right to be indignant. Just sad about how really unfair and worthless everything is now." I really love how Sotos cuts through all of the sentimental bullshit and the public's pathetic clamoring for some greater meaning in a tragedy whose victims are not at all special or precious, and tells the families of the victims who sell themselves to the media and public circuit that they are not special or precious just because their children were selected by almost no special criteria.
Beyond that, though, I didn't take much away from reading Home.
Thanks to Brett for the notice because I totally would have missed out on this.

totalblack

I haven't started it yet because I wanted to get through the last 30 pages of another book I was just finishing up with. Started into the first couple pages but then I just went to bed. Have the whole day off so I'll try and get to it today and tell you what I think. I trust your opinion though, you have read a lot more of his stuff than I have.

The photography portion is actually really beautiful, even if the text side is not great work it was worth the cost just for the Salerno portion.

Jordan

I like the newer Sotos stuff more and more.  Mine was great. Hopefully I can grab this soon.

simulacrum

What do you like about the new material more than the old?

online prowler

#221
Michael Salerno & Peter Sotos

"Home".


Avail via Where frost reign. Kiddiepunk is sold out.

http://wherefrostreignhangar.tumblr.com/post/67752224605/distro-new-in-stock-from-kiddiepunk-michael

ITEM SOLD OUT.

F_c_O


RyanWreck

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Quote from: F_c_O on June 09, 2014, 09:45:32 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BrciQcuUsk

thought someone might enjoy this.

I'm pretty sure a good number of users on this forum probably have both the CD and the actual books he is reading from (outside of the obvious tracks). But it's been a while since I listened to my copy, years actually, and this is because I prefer reading them. The last time I did listen to it I choose "Tick" because it was what I wanted to go back too, and I read it along with him like those childish read alongs on Reading Rainbow or Mr. Rodgers, not that these connections ever crossed my mind until just now (probably because they're silly) and I guess I found something in that and may do it again. So thank you for that.


endors_toi

A new Sotos is now available for pre-order for $25 via 9BB;

http://www.ninebandedbooks.com/desistance/

"In this prismatic and obliquely appreciative study of Antoine D'Agata's photography, Peter Sotos arraigns the fraught vocabulary of gallery apologists — and of D'Agata himself — to locate a "finer definition of pornography" beneath the exigent demands of desire, transgression, and art."

I ordered this one because I'm doing my best to grab a hold of all of Sotos's works, but I wonder what I'm gonna think of it. I didn't much care for Mine, although after reading some of you guys' opinions of it in this thread I might give it another go. My favorite to this day still remains Comfort And Critique, because I find it the most straight-forward, clear and to the point while at the same time being so raw, uncompromising and brilliant.

BTW, if anyone is selling Home and does not care to ship internationally, I'm interest.