Active Listener
Issue #2 October 1982 Active Listener home
Issue #2 October 1982 Active Listener home
Cover of Active Listener Issue #2, image by Phil Hundley
Introduction and Contents
Letters - John Foster (OP mag), Alex Douglas (CLEM), Forrest Fang, Craig Gray (Toiling Midgets)-- quotes ny Woody Allen and Friedrich Nietzsche
"An Appreciation Of Poignancy", article on Robert Wyatt, by Rick Karcasheff.
"An Appreciation Of Poignancy", article on Robert Wyatt (continued), plus Recommended Robert Wyatt Listening List, by Rick Karcasheff. Quote by John Cage. Also, an article by Karcasheff titled "But Why Must You Always Write Abut Things No One's Ever Heard Of" (includes a paragraph of the Second Time Around record store in Broad Ripple). Plus reviews by Karcasheff of Ben Watt, Kate Bush, and Everything But The Girl.
Reviews by Rick Karcasheff - Minny Pops, Palais Schaumburg, Annette Peacock, Die Form, Care Of The Cow, Paul Dresher
Recommended Record Listening List by david Mattingly and Rick Karcasheff - Family Fodder, The Honeymoon Killers, Klaus Schulze, Lounge Lizards, New Order, Raincoats, Metabolist, Can, Cabaret Voltaire, Lemon Kittens, Faust, Kraftwerk, Philip Glass, Greaves/Blegvad, Nick Drake, Tomita, Holger Czukay, Forrest Fang, Ornette Coleman, Cocteau Twins, Robert Ashley, Bill Nelson, Univers Zero, Richard Pinhas, Conlon Nancarrow, Au Pairs, Kate Bush, Harry Partch, more. Editorial by David Mattingly titled "Sensible Advertising: What The Public Wants".
Concrete poem. "Politics/Shame Of The Nation" column by Chris Holmes.
"Politics/Shame Of The Nation" column by Chris Holmes, continued.
Review by Rick Karcasheff of The Robin Williams movie, "The World According to Garp". Poetry by Lotte Lieb and Nancy Hill.
Poetry by Nancy Hill
poetry by Gabrielle Antolini, Phillip Hundley, and Lotte Lieb
poetry by David Mattingly and Gabrielle Antolini
poetry by Phillip Hundley, David Mattingly, and Nancy Hill
Recommended Reading (Recordings, CLEM, Neumusik, Op, Eurock) and a list of Mail-Order Outlets (Systematic, Rough Trade, Wayside, Paradox, and New Music D.S.)
