Esopus 18

Esopus 18 by Lippy, Tod. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780981574578.

Printed on eight different paper stocks and featuring more than 100 die-cuts created by hand, Esopus 18 include artists projects by Bill Burns, Bryan Nash Gill and Mary Lum; facsimile reproductions of materials from the MoMA Archives related to the museums groundbreaking Spaces exhibition from 1969; never-before-seen early portraits by Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann; new fiction by Victoria Matsui; another found object contributed by archivist Rich Remsberg; 100 frames from acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardts undistributed 1999 short film Ode, with an introduction by Amy Taubin; and a selection of pages from the guest book of art critic Dorothy Adlow and her husband, the legendary composer, conductor and musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. The issue closes with a compilation CD containing songs inspired by Slonimskys hugely influential 1947 book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Contributors to the CD include Andrew Bird, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, Cat Martino and Horse Feathers.