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| John
Giorno is perhaps best known as the star of Andy Warhol's Sleep. More
significantly, Giorno's multimedia publication and performance projects
have consistently transgressed and redefined the boundaries of literature
and mass media. The publisher of Giorno Poetry Systems LPs, CDs, tapes,
and videopaks, Giorno first made his mark in the late sixties as the
innovator of the Dial-A-Poem System (1969): a twelve-line telephonic
system allowing callers to hear one of twelve different poems each day,
and offering some 700 selections by fifty-five poets and writers. Receiving
1,112,337 calls in its first five months, it moved from The Architectural
League of New York, to The New York Museum of Modern Art, The Museum
of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and elsewhere, despite the turmoil of
being sporadically disconnected and threatened with lawsuits for broadcasting
subversive and pornographic materials. Initially broadcasting recordings
by Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, William Burroughs, Anne Waldman,
Ed Sanders, John Giorno, John Cage, and other luminaries of the New
York scene, Giorno's LPs, CDs, tapes, and videopaks have expanded into
the fields of new music and punk rock, with work by Patty Smith, Laurie
Anderson, Philip Glass, and more recently, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch,
Husker Dü, Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubaten, and Giorno's own John
Giorno Band. Like few other poets today, Giorno has consistently appropriated
and explored what he terms the capacity of mass media "entertainment"
to generate moments of "magic" when "the hearts of the collective audience
get connected to yours." John Giorno has met Carlo Gatteschi in '98
and they have recorded nearly twenty minutes of music-poetry that will
be soon published in the CD "John Giorno in Florence" .
This
CD includes John Giorno florentine live and studio recordings. |
