Published by The Esopus Foundation Ltd., Fall 2012. Format: Perfect-bound magazine, 9 by 11.5 inches, 172 pages.
With artists’ projects by Bill Burns, Bryan Nash Gill, and Mary Lum, the issue also included the second installment of the series Analog Recovery, co-presented with the Magnum Foundation, featuring never-before-seen early portraits by the Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann; a fascinating found object by image researcher/archivist Rich Remsberg; documents related to the Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking 1969 Spaces exhibition (introduced by Museum Archivist Michelle Elligott); new fiction by Victoria Matsui; 100 frames from Kelly Reichardt’s undistributed 1999 short film Ode, with an introduction by critic Amy Taubin; Angus Trumble's “1986 in Haiku”; and facsimile pages from the guestbook of art critic Dorothy Adlow and legendary composer, conductor, and musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky.
The issue closed with a compilation CD containing songs inspired by Slonimsky’s hugely influential 1947 book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Contributors to the CD included Andrew Bird, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, Cat Martino, and Horse Feathers.
Artist’s Project: Bryan Nash Gill
Analog Recovery 2: Home Studio
Photographs by Erich Hartmann
Angus Trumble’s 1986 In Haiku
Found Object: Spliced Duck
Recovered by Rich Remsberg
100 Frames: Ode (1999)
Film by Kelly Reichardt; introduction by Amy Taubin
Artist’s Project: Mary Lum
Modern Artifacts 11: Creating “Spaces”
Introduction by Michelle Elligott
New Voices: “Good Friends”
By Victory Matsui
Artist’s Project: Bill Burns
Notes of Appreciation
Introduction by Electra Slonimsky Yourke
Esopus CD #18: Slonimsky’s Thesaurus