Kenneth Goldsmith

• The Kenny G Letters
  The Special Story of "Miracles" by Kenny G (5'30")
  Slobodan Milosevic and Kenny G (3'33")
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2006 (MP3)
  
  Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Theory
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Sigmund Freud (15'27")
  Music by The Who
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, NJ, June 21, 2006 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Walter Benjamin (31'03")
  Music by Eyvind Kang
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, NJ, 2007 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Ludwig Wittgenstein (for M.A. Numminen), Part 1 (15'04")
  Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Ludwig Wittgenstein (for M.A. Numminen), Part 2 (16'56")
  Music by Igor Stravinsky
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2005 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Roland Barthes (13'05")
  Music by The Allman Brothers
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2006 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Jean Baudrillard (3'12")
  Music by The Francis Lai
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2006 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Jacques Derrida (10'44")
  Music by Anton Webern
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2006 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Frederic Jameson (10'44")
  Music by John Coltrane
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2006 (MP3)
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Theodor Adorno, Part 1 (3'46")
  Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Theodor Adorno Part 2, (2'14")
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Harry Potter (31'03")
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, NJ, July 7, 2007 (MP3)
  
  
• Traffic (Complete Reading) (03:28'36)
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2006
  
  
• Ian Parkin Sings An Essay on Kenneth Goldsmith, 2007 (22'57")
  Music: "Right Off" by Miles Davis
  
  
• Open Letter Issue: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics (1:12:19)
  A rountable discussion with Barbara Cole, Al Filreis, Joshua Schuster and Kenneth Goldsmith.
  Kelly Writers House, Thursday, February 9, 2006.
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Reads at the Walker Art Center (1:12:19)
  Introduced by Eric Lorberer, Rain Taxi
  The Walker Art Center Minneapolis. Thursday, February 23, 2006.
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith Reads Ludwig Wittgenstein's Culture and Value in German, a Language He Neither Speaks Nor Understands (Complete Reading)
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2005
  
  
• Eighteen Earrers (3'43")
  From Head Citations (The Figures, 2002)
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2005
  
  
• The Last Acts of St. Fuck You (8'00")
  Text: Bern Porter
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2005
  
  
• The Weather (Complete Reading) (MP3)
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, April 2005-May 2005
  
  
• Fidget (Complete Reading) (MP3)
  Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2004-March 2005
  
  
• Being Boring (MP3)
  University of Pennsylvania Lunchtime Poets Series
  Recorded at Kelly Writers House, November 4, 2004
  
  
• WKCR (New York) interview, (MP3)
  Recorded March 4, 2005; 30 minutes
  
  
• Studio 111 inteview and Kelly Writers House reading
  A Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith, with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students (1:10:00) (MP3), University of Pennsylvania, April 13, 2004
  
  
• A conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith and Jena Osman
  A discussion with students in English 88, "Modern & Contemporary American Poetry," at the Kelly Writers House, hosted by Al Filreis, December 9, 2004
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith reads from Fidget (RealVideo of the event)
  
  
• Reading as part of The Line Reading Series (MP3)
  Recorded on October 9, 2001 at The Drawing Center, New York City
  
  
• Reading at the Kelly Writers House
  University of Pennsylvania, September 21, 2000
  
  
• Reading for Mills College Contemporary Writers Series, March 11, 2008
  1. Introduction (7:17): MP3
  2. Dear Kenny G (8:13): MP3
  3. All the News I (6:43): MP3
  4. All the News II: Senator (17:32): MP3
  5. And Bodily Discourse (4:02): MP3
  
  Complete Reading (58:43) MP3
  
• Reading and Interview on Ceptuetics Radio March 26, 2008 (30:49) MP3
  Hosted by Kareem Estefan. Goldsmith talks about his latest book, Sports, the new installment of his American "on the ones" trilogy (Make Now Press). Estefan and Goldsmith then wander through many topics related to his conceptual poetics: boredom, temporality, information management, peeling language off the page & pouring it into different forms.




• External Links
  • Kenneth Goldsmith's EPC Author Page
    
  • UbuWeb
    
  • Contact Kenneth Goldsmith
  
  
  
• Kenneth Goldsmith on PennSound Daily
  • November 20, 2007: "Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic and the Weather"
  
  
  
  These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. (C) 2008 Kenneth Goldsmith. Used with permission of Kenneth Goldsmith. Distributed by PENNSound.