An audio documentary by Momus made in New York City, Spring 2000.
Tracks
- Theme music
- Flier: snippets of interviews
- Theme music (some more)
- Momus & Sinclair Scientific, the robot anthropologist
- Introducing Rhymes With Adventure by International Fiction
- Introducing Miss Mono Trona
- Mono sings about the birth of a superbeing
- Momus & Sinclair: what is Gavin Brown’s Enterprise?
- Introducing Mr Casey Spooner, Fischerspooner
- Casey Spooner in conversation at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
- Fischerspooner excerpt: Invisible
- Introducing Mr Steve Lafreniere, Index magazine
- Steve Lafreniere at the Chelsea studio of Index magazine
- Steve Lafreniere: Polish & Ukrainian folk in Chicago
- Casey Spooner talks about glamour
- Fischerspooner excerpt: Turn On
- Steve Lafreniere on glam style
- Casey Spooner on kitsch and Brecht
- Momus & Sinclair: Rhymes With Adventure at The Soho Rep
- Internat’l Fiction’s Rhymes With Adventure: Die Evil Beings
- Introducing Mr Ford Wright
- Ford Wright on the Chicago scene
- Ford on his appearance as Jesus Christ Superstar
- Ford Wright on fantasy fiction
- Rhymes With Adventure: Carbon Ice
- Ford on kitsch
- Rhymes With Adventure: Unicorn, Come To My Aid
- Sinclair and Momus: who are the elves of yore?
- Cindy Green talks about superhero imagery
- Introducing The Melted Men, from Athens, Georgia
- A slice of Mono Trona
- Introducing Miss Kelly Kuvo of Sweet Thunder
- Kelly Kuvo on Sweet Thunder
- Sinclair and Momus: What is irony, post Gen X?
- Ford Wright on D.I.V.O.R.C.E
- Momus & Sinclair, the robot
- Introducing Mr Stephin Merrit of Magnetic Fields
- Stephin Merrit: the Harry Smith Anthology Box Set
- Ford Wright’s hobo musical, Arrogance: Catch As Catch Can
- Stephin Merrit on fake folk and possible precedents
- Introducing Brian Degraw of Saabsongs
- Brian Degraw on his collaboration with Harmony Korine
- Steve Lafreniere on folk art
- Sinclair Scientific: all too much for a robot to understand
- Ford Wright: a slave boy that thinks he’s a king
- Closing theme
Momus says
Situated in New York City, the Fakeways Institute will begin its study of Folk Art with a record of the results of a series of investigations and field trips conducted in Manhattan during Spring 2000. The CD is an audio collage of interviews, dramatisations and speculations. Momus is the chief sound architect of this work of ethnomusicology. Because Manhattan artists are such a dangerous and untamed race, many of the recordings had to be made by a specially-designed field robot, Sinclair Scientific…