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- Release Date: 1996
- Total Time: 152:53
- Type: Collection (various artists), Avant-garde, Contains explicit content
- Genre: Avant-Garde
Review
Produced by composer-performer Elliott Sharp, this is an incredible two-CD collection of one-minute pieces by 146 artists (poets, musicians, writers, visual artists) with proceeds from the sale going to benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship. This has been an on-going project since a similar release in 1982 on zOaR records. "Changing political, cultural and technical climate plus inspired response yields biting satire, bracing sound, sly observations." ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Hymn | John Duncan | John Duncan | (1:13) |
| Dear Friend | (:53) | ||
| Life Is Shorter | Ui | (1:10) | |
| Politica | Queen Esther | (1:07) | |
| Ayurveda | Pain Killer | (:58) | |
| America, It Was a Beautiful Idea | (1:08) | ||
| Indians Not Taxed and Others | Chris Haskett | Chris Haskett | (1:10) |
| Not Me | (1:10) | ||
| Covalence | (1:01) | ||
| The Traveler | (1:01) | ||
| Prolongate | (1:01) | ||
| Through a Tube | (1:03) | ||
| Why I Don't Like Wyoming | Maggie Estep | Maggie Estep | (1:00) |
| Kitsch | (1:01) | ||
| Hogwash | (1:01) | ||
| Subsector a | (1:01) | ||
| Rude Awakening, Pt. 2 | Rebecca Moore | Rebecca Moore | (1:04) |
| Sin Capish | Allen Ginsberg | Allen Ginsberg | (1:13) |
| A Voice in the Forest | Paul DeMarinis | Paul DeMarinis | (1:00) |
| Outskirts of Beatrice | Lenny Kaye | Lenny Kaye | (1:05) |
| 9.1.95 | Norman Yamada | Norman Yamada | (1:03) |
| Vorticities | DJ Spooky | (1:02) | |
| Laying into the Piople | Mark Helias | Mark Helias | (1:05) |
| Proscurstics | (1:02) | ||
| Van Tatum | Mark de Gli Antoni | (1:03) | |
| Building a Compound | (1:01) | ||
| Prelude to a Kiss | (1:10) | ||
| Dipthong | Andrea Parkins | Andrea Parkins | (1:05) |
| Ghazal by Mawlana Jalaloddin Rumi | (1:05) | ||
| Blue Ox | (:59) | ||
| The Tormentrix | (:59) | ||
| Our Little Life Is Rounded With a Sleep | (1:24) | ||
| Woke up With Leather | (1:09) | ||
| Circulate All Sensation | (1:01) | ||
| The Writer | (1:01) | ||
| Place Study #3 | Lauren Weinger | Lauren Weinger | (1:12) |
| Nontheory | (1:05) | ||
| Non-Verbal News | (1:07) | ||
| Hey George | (1:00) | ||
| Westworld | Borbetomagus, |
(:59) | |
| Patchwork Quilt | (1:03) | ||
| Backlash | (:54) | ||
| The Whole World Turned Upside Down | (1:02) | ||
| Frankspeech/Tongue & Groove | Ikue Mori | Ikue Mori | (:53) |
| Patches '91 | Anthony Coleman | Anthony Coleman | (:59) |
| God Is My Co-Pilot | (:55) | ||
| Nikosi Sikelel 'I Afrika | Lois V. Vierk, |
Lois V. Vierk, |
(:55) |
| Motherless Child | Marc Ribot | Marc Ribot | (1:06) |
| American Spit Poems | (1:04) | ||
| Keystone Model | Gen Ken Montgomery | (:57) | |
| Cowlick Pussyman | John Zorn | Yamatsuka Eye, John Zorn | (1:03) |
| Overture for the 90's | (1:07) | ||
| Tropical Boubou | Nicolas Collins | (1:05) | |
| Murk | (:52) | ||
| Good Morning Dear | John Lurie | John Lurie | (1:21) |
| One Minute | (1:04) | ||
| A Small Motion | (1:04) | ||
| Cornered Bo | (1:01) | ||
| May | (1:02) | ||
| As Told to Andrew Zev Weinstein | (1:09) | ||
| Misery Loop | (1:43) | ||
| Mr. Dead & Mrs. Free | (:35) | ||
| Rough Translations Will Be Provided for the Ancient Inscriptions | (:43) | ||
| What's to Come | (1:28) | ||
| Due Pay To | Arto Lindsay | Arto Lindsay, |
(:49) |
| Standing in the Need of Prayer | John Scofield, |
(:59) | |
| F Troop | (1:04) | ||
| My Town | (:59) | ||
| Address | Spalding Gray | Spalding Gray | (:57) |
| No Regrets | (1:00) | ||
| Love Letters to My Sister in Prison | (1:23) | ||
| Guilty | Zeena Parkins | Zeena Parkins | (1:17) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Polynation | (1:01) | ||
| Red Light | (:55) | ||
| Vom Gewissen | (:59) | ||
| Life Saver | (1:01) | ||
| Bane of Black Ink | Lukas Ligeti | Lukas Ligeti | (:59) |
| Always Broke | (:59) | ||
| Status Extremis | (:59) | ||
| American Society Thus | (:57) | ||
| Cordless Phones Are a Bummer (For Poor People in the Third World) | (1:06) | ||
| Shit | (:52) | ||
| 60 Seconds | (1:02) | ||
| Pooch | Run On | Run On | (1:05) |
| Profane | (:58) | ||
| A Chance Meeting on Uranus | (:59) | ||
| Kick the Pain | (1:02) | ||
| Dinosaur Lecture | (1:12) | ||
| The Neighborhood | (1:01) | ||
| Channel Surfing | (:55) | ||
| Heated | (1:01) | ||
| Kingdom | (1:04) | ||
| The Scrap Metal Theme | Annie Gosfield | Annie Gosfield | (:59) |
| Permuter | (1:07) | ||
| Green as Mold | (1:01) | ||
| One Possible Way to Dance the Blue Moon Shuffle | Frank Pahl | Frank Pahl | (1:00) |
| Full Newton With Rattle | Mark Trayle | Mark Trayle | (1:03) |
| Hit the Power | (:57) | ||
| Free Will | (1:02) | ||
| Struthious | (1:09) | ||
| Running Commentary (A-Z) [Excerpts] | Jon Gibson | (1:00) | |
| Harmolodic Jeopardy | (1:04) | ||
| As Long as You're Inside | (:58) | ||
| Cinghiale | (1:02) | ||
| Communion | (1:05) | ||
| Sound Scripts #2 | (1:00) | ||
| Touchtone Only | (1:13) | ||
| Rubber Room | (1:03) | ||
| Law | (:55) | ||
| Fanfare for the Congitive Elite | Roger Kleier | Roger Kleier | (1:02) |
| Zooper X Press | (1:00) | ||
| What I Heard | Syd Straw | Syd Straw | (:55) |
| Land du Lack | (1:02) | ||
| State | (:53) | ||
| A Minute to Pray | (1:10) | ||
| Down He Looked at Her Pocketbook | (1:08) | ||
| Moostlvania Perestroika Guitar Solo | Henry Kaiser | Henry Kaiser | (:57) |
| The Cold Silent Treatment | (:51) | ||
| Quit Please! | David Shea | David Shea | (:58) |
| Vocalize | (1:04) | ||
| Marching to Euphoria | (:53) | ||
| An Arrival | (:59) | ||
| Inspirational Message | (1:03) | ||
| The Of a The | (:58) | ||
| Ready, Set, Shred | (:54) | ||
| A New World Sympathy | (:58) | ||
| Jerry's Hymn of the Republic | Hal Willner | (1:08) | |
| Hallucinogen | Shelley Hirsch | Shelley Hirsch | (:54) |
| Disc Composition #23 | Christian Marclay | Christian Marclay | (1:12) |
| Baal | Adele Bertei | Adele Bertei | (:54) |
| Discoration of Independence | (1:07) | ||
| Discrtepancies | (1:16) | ||
| Terminal Activity | (1:09) | ||
| Kupferberg, Tuli | (:59) | ||
| Agenda | (1:01) | ||
| Crayon Bondage | Lawrence Butch Morris, |
Lawrence Butch Morris, |
(1:20) |
| Beer Notation | Wayne Horvitz, |
Wayne Horvitz, |
(:04) |
| Beer Dance | Martin Bisi, |
Martin Bisi, |
(1:05) |
| The Time Is Now | (1:13) | ||
| World Whirl | (:40) | ||
| Panic DJ's State of the Union | (:54) | ||
| Cherry Blossom | (1:01) | ||
| I'm Still Here and I Know What Time It Is | (1:15) | ||
| Precious Chemical and Dice | (1:09) | ||
| HMZ | (1:11) | ||
| [Untitled] | (1:05) | ||
| [Untitled] | (1:15) | ||
| [Untitled] | (1:07) |
