As a result of extensive (ahem!) research the stout fellows of the
Freeformfreakout Organisation are on the verge of producing their long
awaited book "BARCODES".
To commemorate the fact that they are even contemplating the finishing of a
project, the Freeformfreakout Organisation Barcodes and
know what you want and ill get onto it asap
bests
alan
alan bowman
via lorenzago 15/7
30174
mestre - venezia
italia
+39 (0)41 61 40 20
+39 (0)34 77 55 86 04
- Original Message -
From: "alan bowman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: ahem!
to anybody who has asked for my address recently
I sent the wrong one to everybody!!
Another stroke of genius from Bowman
Heiko
As a result of extensive (ahem!) research the stout fellows of the
Freeformfreakout Organisation are on the verge of producing their long
awaited book "BARCODES".
To commemorate the fact that they are even contemplating the finishing of a
project, the Freeformfreakout Organisation
Dear all,
The Freeformfreakout Organisation would like to announce to opening of yet
another web-site.
"Be Calm"
."this site is a collection of simple images
and texts
to be viewed in silence"
This is an
ca Damiani
and
The Legendary Stardust Fabio
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/fridgepoetry7.thml
please lend your support to this project - we need it!
bests
alan bowman
what happened to the WAP stuff?
allen did you get my site page stuff? did you try it and get lost?
bests
alan
i've just waded through about 20 posts from jason, (who has just made my
delete on site list), after being away for a couple of days
reply button fever (at least delet irrelevent parts of the original
message!)
one line replies and smart arsed quips.hmmm..i'd rather have my mail
box
dear all,
here are some pics from the opening of
537 Broadway Comes to Venice
at the
Emily Harvey Associazione Culturale
San Polo, 387I-30125 VeneziaItaliaa
very successful show by all accounts
Please take a look! - see Emmett Williams, Ay-O,
Yoshi Wada, Tahkako Saito, Philip Corner,
can someone s'plain me why my site worked with IE and not Netscape?
then I can try and fix it.
thanks to all for your kind comments and patience!
bests
alan
http://www.fluxus-engineering.com
dear all,
i have to compile a (predominantly Fluxus related) mailing list for a
gallery
the trouble is, i've never done this before and i'm not really sure where to
start
does anyone have any helpful suggestions?
I would be most grateful!
Thanks
alan
Is this a snail mail list or email list?
Both, I need an International list of artists, curator, galleries, critics,
newspapers, journals and collectors, (Gasp!)
for both snail and e mail purposes
There is an existing list but it needs updating and expanding, and as i have
a bit of free
reed!
i'm working for emily harvey, there's a gallery here in venice too now. she
wants her list updated so if you think you can help me out, i'd be very
grateful.
I can handle any format ;-)
thanks and warmests
alan
dear all
the boys and girls of the FFFO offices have been playing whilst bowman's
back was turned. they have plugged in the much unused office webcam, and
generally messed around with it.
you can see their handiwork at the following links
do you want to see a particular aspect of the FFFO
dear carol (and anyone else who's interested - silence, somewhere in the
distance a dog howls)
bowman's desktop - well bits of it anyway..
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/desktop/index.html
alan
;-)
- Original Message -
From: Carol Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
the staff of the freeformfreakout organisation have had a vote, through
which they have decided, unanimously, that they are in total accordance with
the words of mr nte.
they, as a group, are whole-heartedly bored beyond belief with the
andersen/tamas discourse and wish to state that as a
we've just been to the jean eyous 2000 website (should that have an 'h' i
there?)
woo!
840 hits
we thought we had bad traffic problems - (we don't multi-list spam however)
yours
T Hee
Freeformfreakout Organisation
We don't really get the whole G2000 thing Division
why does eric constantly have to refer to ken friedman, why does he bring up
ken's name?
was ken involved in the G2000 thing, or tamas' tests?
let's vote
hands up who give a
ahem!
.
Fluxlist poems 2.
Anyone interested?
Yes,
the lads and lasses of the freeformfreakout organisation 'poetry, prose,
prosecco division' - (up for owt section) would be very interested in
participating in a second edition, sort of thing.
we would be interested in perhaps seeing the terms
Dear FluXlisters,
On Thursday 27th September, Bowman will be
travelling to New York City.
Anybody fancy a beer, coffee, cup of tea,
cake?
Yours
Dr. Banana Mowl
Vice President
Freeformfreakout Organisation (Hooray the Boss is
Going Away Division)
p.s. get's his timing perfect
eh!?
you can't hear absolute silence (external)
because you hear your own sounds (internal)
so you'd probably be wasting your money buying a tape of silence(!)
(ahem!)
i have a document of an event
called
"Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running
Around Emily Harvey Gallery...
(in semi darkness)"
alan bowman 8-10-2001
i intend to produce an edition of 5 photocopied
booklets
i will sell them for photocopies of money, any
currency
make m
i performed these using live artists
to stress:
spend the day between hf and a
computer.
to destress:
walk arm in arm in the cold with
ak
t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-Sunday
. . . . how about a copy of an ileagally scanned (i.e. counterfit) 50.00
USD bill that I recieved from another artist in exchange for some art work
that i had sold him. . . . . or you can have the actual counterfit bill. .
. . .
Owen
owen,
howabout a fake photocopy of the forged banknote?
baby i'm a rich man too!
ooh ee hoo!!
thanks
the 5 copies are now reserved, robert, melissa, owen, carol and patricia
i'll need postal addresses...
they shall be done in of course the usual fffo charmingly incompetent way
and posted as soon as i find some envelopes, actually i'll have to
count me in
alan bowman
via lorenzago 15/7
30174
mestre venezia
italy
yours in
antici
pation
alan
- Original Message -
From: sarah tranter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Fwd: artsnews digest: November 02, 2001
hiya alan...i was wading through my inbox and thought that this first item
might be of some interest to you?
Publication Party
Henry Flynt
etc etc
[why isn't alan bowman posting this stuff?]
alan bowman is in italy and for some reason (probably good) wasn't given the
brief for this press release
he does however have the 'graduation' cd and recommends it highly, he was
also privy to a pre
What is his music like? I saw a cd of his used the other day and was
tempted.
henry play(ed)s guitar and fiddle
he describes his music as 'avante garde hillbilly' and blues
to me it has a surprisingly mainstream feel/sound to it (however i have
fairly extreme tastes, musically)
he's an
now my scanner's gone on the sick too!
must be a bug going round.
bugger!
all i did was ask it if there was a way to scan
(part of) the map of the fffo archipelago (sp?)
the cluster of islands and the lagoon in the corner
of the fffo living room, next to the tv.
perhaps the webcam is back
dear
Robert, Melissa, Owen, Carol and Princess
Petal,
re: your copies of
"Trying to Draw a Straight Line Whilst Running
Around Emily Harvey Gallery...
(in semi darkness)"
alan bowman 8-10-2001
I have not forgotten (gad! the wonders of ginko biloba..), however the
photocop
dear all,
the freeformfreakoutorganisation is somewhat bemused to present
the freeformfreakout organisation new york red wine incident
this site contains a collection of scribbles and texts which go some way to
showing the effect of 3 bottles of red wine and half a bottle of prosecco on
the
dear all,
erm, pressed send by mistake
here is the information again
(with URL!)
dear all,
the freeformfreakoutorganisation is somewhat bemused to present
the freeformfreakout organisation new york red wine incident
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/newyork/
dear all
sorry to post this to the list but i am somewhat
baffle and my boozle has been well and truly bammed!
all my websites semm to be up and running (well,
hobbling and pausing for frequent rests) however when i go to the FTP bit,
i can only see about half of the folders
e.g. on the
Dear all
more nonsense from the FreeformFreakout
Organisation Offices
take a look at what actually goes on
here,
a real, 'live', glimpse into the world of the
FFFO
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/ani/
http://digilander.iol.it/freeformfreakoutorg/ani/
abbi
some points to hopefully open discussion ( if i'm not too late and some one
has already done so)
we had this discussion 4 or so years ago, we should check the archives.
i don't think that we came to any concrete conclusion.
obviously, there are different viewpoints, was 'fluxus' only the
but what i am really
looking to write about is how Fluxus is not dead, but still has a place in
the art world.
..it's a name that has, for some come to represent a specific man, a
specific
group of artists during a specific period.
for others it has come to
Dear All
Following the tremendous lack of
interest shown in the piece "10,000 Words on a Piece of String" (c) Bowman 1998,
the FreeformFreakout Organisation rather sheepishly presents a new
essay.
"Ten Thousand Words on the
Internet" Bowman 2001
Competitions Div
Gong! from um angels egg cd i think
-sherry
-Original Message-
From: alan bowman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FLUXLIST: FFFO Competitions Div
Dear All,
Tell us who shouted out the words
hari
that's very worrying zap!
btw he also made a blatant typo too
we'll fix it soon(ish)
fffo1wdiv
me too, i ran it through an editor, which allows you to read the code
without opening the file
guess what!
there was nothing in it!
but it did try to download itself
reed PLEASE tell us you did it on purpose!
my anti-virus didn't pick anything up, but i feel particulary uneasy 'bout
thissun
err
hello
is there anybody there?
have i been unsu??ribed?
listens to sound of wind whistling through in box
some where in the distance, a door creaks and something howls
or is fluxlist down
or what
alan
carol!
what have you done!?!?!
i read your mail this morning and it started snowing here too
it's been snowing heavily almost all day now
it hardly ever snows in venice
is this some new sort of virus we wonder?
has anyone else been affected by a snowstorm after reading carol's mail
brr
I didn't even know she was ill.
I am so very sad, I've just done a drawing and a
copy of a booklet for her too. Now I don't know what to do.
I feel a bit lost this morning...I'm just glad I
had the chance to communicate with her, she will be missed greatly by the
FreeformFreakout
well it's been quite a day
robin crozier was one of my tutors at
university
a great bloke, he filled our library with fluxus
literature, which i think only he and i ever read!
i am doubly sad now
The FreeformFreakout Organisation Embarrassed
Publicity Div
Begrudgingly present:
"take a ten storey apartment across
venice"
possibly bowman's most pointless exercise
yet
(the web page that is. believe it or not
there was a point to the actual exercise)
to view the latest fiasco go to
sorry to post tjhis via the list but i cant get through to you carol! i
keep getting error messsages-mail delivery failures and all that
anywayhowroad what the deadline again?
big cheesy grin
alan
i guess it's out then!
i had the great fortune (and fun) to perform , at the grand opening and on
the 2 performance days, as well as go on the Fluxus Tour. I joined in with
octet for winds, Four directional songs of doubt and did Tomas Schmit's
Zyklus
a real experience
just got back 6 rolls
hi all
sol writ
In fact I like the direction he(as well as Dick Higgins) took Fluxus in
best of all. The whole Mail Art thing and publishing via Something Else
Press.it's all about owning the means of production, I like the
idea
of particpating in art activity but at the same time
FLUXLIST ADDRESS BOOK
the size is 3x5 inches and the deadline is
01 april.
what's that in centimetres?
sheepish grins and best wishes from
the freeformfreakout organisation mathematical duffers div.
europe
mIEKAL
SEEDSIGNS
I REALLY like this, my compliments!
I love seeing gems like this on the web.
How long did it take to put together?
Made me realise just how dull the site I've ben working on for 3 months
actually is..Oh god...I feel a 'moment' coming on...
a
dear all and sundried,
finally he got round to it!
see some video caps from the Fluxus Constellation events in Genova last
month.
We reckon he might even get a bigger site up, after all he took six rolls of
film during the week. Yes he might get it done, if we can drag him out of
the pub
np:lee 'scratch' perry - eponymous?
proposed np for the rest of the day so far (i.e. the pile on the table i dug
out earlier)
Ravi Shankar-Chants of india
various-Rough Trade 25 years of rough trade shops
einsturzende neubauten-strategies against architecture III
dear all and sundried
i have a massive list of email addresses in front
of me that some gave me - hard copy.
is there a quick and easy way to turn this into and
address book for outlook express or eudora?
I know that i'm going to have to type it all up,
but can i get around doing all the
sol!
not only are you apparently an all round good egg, but it would seem a
genius too!
many ta's
alan
seriously thinking about having a cold brew or two this very eventide ;-)
the other day the freeformfreakoutorganisation visited the hunter coll. open
studio thing
where they saw sherry wong, who obviously didnt recognise the fffo
she therefore joins a VERY long list
yours in a state
alanfff oh dear
dear all
this in from Locustmusic today - some revues of henry flynt's music
i was fortunate to get a preview of henry's new disc 'spindizzy' the other
day, which i think is being released by ampersound OR it could be recorded
i'm not sure
http://www.ampersound.com/
http://www.recorded.com/
where is this site - i must have missed something
somewhere!
a
shouldn't bukoff be
bigg all
?
Dear All
The lads and lasses of the Freeformfreakout
Organisation are on the cadge again.
This time does anyone have any 'victorian/maciunas
style pointing hands and arrows gifs and or jpegs? The images must be
freeware or unprotected/available for use in the public domain.
The FFFO
hi
can someone (allen?) send me the thursday
night fluxlist dinner page URL please?
i appear to have rather brilliantly deleted the
mail with it in
thanksalot
al
Ladies and Gentlemen,
For the first time in its 150 year history, the
Freeformfreakout Organisation has appointed a new member of staff.
Mr Glen Bowman has been appointed to the position
of Vice Director (All Divisions). It was an appointment based on merit and
has absolutely nothing to do
RE www.freeformfreakout.org
the FTP server's shut down so you won't see the
images - bowman messed up, was informed by mr bowman jr and tried to fix it up
this afternoon - access denied etc
god help us, there's two of them now!
yours
ann onnymus
FFFO dear!
Dear Fluxlisters (esp administrators)
is there an easy way of culling all the
Freeformfreakout Organisation related e-mails from the Fluxlist Archives?
Or do I have to trawl though the whole database?
We just realised that we have regularly thrown out
our own history!
Yours
Ann Mawalob
Dear Carol (and all)
My address book arrived today
Hip, Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Complete with MaciunAs Monkey on the
front
USA 23
Canada 1
Uraguay 1
Great Britain (England) 2
Italy 1
No this is not the medals table from the World Hot
Dog Eating Championships, but a Freeformfreakout Organisation
After being kicked over the crossbar of redistribution by
way of some strange afflatus, it turns out that YOUR addy
book, ALAN, has landed in MY lap!
Rod!
I am so sorry !!
but i guess somebody had to draw the short straw
al
np: the kinks - so tired
Dear All and Sundried
The Freeformfreakout Organisation Grovelling Little
Toads Division would like to ask a favour from the wonderful peoples of the
Fluxlist, and elsewhere.
If any of you have, come across, or care to invent
correspondence from the FFFO to your goodselves, or anyone else,
The Freeformfreakout Organisation Oh Those Were The
Days Division present this afternoon's office playlist. Taken from the
music cassette "You Don't Need to Call it Music if the Term Offends You", FFFO
This'll Ruin TheParty Div, 1998 (MC only)
Foetus in Your Bed - 'primordial
Tamas,
this message was filtered out by my anti-spam program so it didn't arrive on
my desktop, but it did come to me via fluxlist. i could read it in my
'killed mail' box
spamkiller wouldn't deliver it due to 'the domain being numeric' - whatever
that means
?
H,
It's a miracle.
I have
bertrand!
great site!!
ben's really pushing that wine isn't he!
did you know that the hotel in genova threw out one of my bottles! it was
empty i suppose..
DEAR FLUXLISTERS
i strongly recommend the following link
especially, somewhere
Sez me:lissa
I'm taking up peace, it seems a Nobel Prize.
dynamite idea darlin'
Melissa McCarthy
Hours: whimsical or by appointment
Adult, maybe; grown-up, never!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
carol!
how bizarre,
i sent a mail to datastar
it was returned
gadzooks, egad!
it said - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail
server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Failed; 5.1.1 (bad destination mailbox address)
sorry that the rhyming's bad
AlanX
h.perhaps our
- Original Message -
From: fabrice arfi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 3:41 PM
I still haven't managed to join the fluxlist, by the way, I think it might
have something to do with the fact that I do not own my own computer.
Could
you talk
I passed this on to Larry
Hopefully we might get something back soon(ish)
al
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:58:23 -0700
From: Luiza Interlenghi[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: fluxlist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Info about a Fluxus performance
In Larry Miller's Some Fluxus there is a piece in which
from larry miller/sara seagull
Dear Alan,
If they have a proper copy of the tape, they would have a program
insert that lists all of the pieces. That piece is called Wall Piece
for Orchestra by Yoko Ono 1962. Performed at the Flux Concert at The
Kitchen 1979, NYC.
ma finalmente!
xe un fio che merita
mi son marzo pero', ghe sborro! xe uno qui ...oi ! ryk ti ga ragion
hai fatto un bel lavoraccio e mi, ti do un bacion
dj coionxx
it was 'nice one eryk!'
in venetian.
--
coming soon..
the new and improved FreeformFreakout Organisaton website
same crap, diiferent layout!
di que cosa parla??
ciao bea!
parla??
siami molto formale stasera
he he!
pero'
dicevo che eryk ha fatto bene (cassonon mi scrivo mai in italiano - in
venessian vado ben..?)
fa fatica questo... parlo spesso in dialetto e non scrivo quasi mai ne in
italiano o veneziano..
fa fadica
whats a bacion
a big kiss!
a weaker man might be moved to examine his faith,if in nothing else at least
in the law of probability.
i wouldn't think about it if i were
you.
heads
heads!
there's a limit to what two people can do
the law of averages, if i have got this right, means that if six monkeys
were thrown upin the air for long enough they would land on their tails
about as often as the would land on their -
you swine, you!
said in a bluebottle voice.
when i sober up, i'll probably not send ananswer!
but, sol, as 'di solito', an e! mail of quality
the ffo very upside down div. salutes you
xx
my book was rosenkrantz and guildenstern are dead
(tom stoppard)
but i only sent 5 phrases, so perhaps it was
rosenkrantz and g
al
the answer?)
(magic!)
(yes it's true!
- magic)
(but i can't tell you how, it's a
secret..)
Alan
you could still do
uildenstern. ;) cs
alan bowman wrote:
my book was
rosenkrantz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writted
wow! is there anything about meeting yoko in less then 10 steps?
last time i met yoko i fell off my bicycle and through a plate glass window
that was in 2 simple steps (and a slip)
caro walter ha scritto..
FLUXLIST FUN PIECE #8
Ride BMX.
Walter Cianciusi
FLUXLIST FUN PIECE #8 (Warning #1)
keep away from yoko ono and shop windows!
alan bowman
ghe xe pericoloso quea
sol writted
..why don't we play some chess?
yeah!
if i can work out how to do it, i'll try and resurrect some of my chess
pieces (now that'll be fun for you all won't it!?)
btw does any one know of a decent little program that'll let you compose
music on the pc, without the use of the
sol,
as ever you came up trumps!
(hey what about a fluxlist cardschool too? nic's out thursday night! bring
booze and peanuts!)
(oh! and yer money!)
thanks sol! jazzthing works sooperlike!
yours, not playing with a full deckedly,
alan
next bus to town centre
alright mate!
einar 550 to recycle bin
i think you'll find that that's 'how you doing' mate
___
i too get those messages roger,
i get those messages too.
i too get those messages roger,
just the same as yooouuu!
alan
__
http://digilander.libero.it/jumper66/fffoweb/chess/chessmove.html
Chess Move
Music
Music from moves
from the chess game between HAL 9000 and Frank Poole in 2001: A Space
Oddysey.
The score was done way back in 1999, but i
just got round to make an audio version today! Especially for the
Nice midi movesactually Alan you sent me the score for that piece ages
ago.must dig it out and play it again.
thatnks sol.
yeah it's an old piece, i my memory serves me right i sent scores out on
request via the fluxlist.
hopefully soon, there should be other events scored in a
http://digilander.libero.it/jumper66/fffoweb/bankmusic.html
This music is taken from the state of my bank account between the months of
january and march 1994.
The melody is provided by the pounds and pence and the bass accompaniment by
the months of january, february and march:
alan
enjoyed, enjoyed, what're the rules for this composition?
thanks!
very simple really - this was was really a really simple one! it needs
work, but i was just playing today.
numbers 0 - 9 = lines on the staff. you can decide where to start! decimal
point = pause, and thats it!
i didnt use
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