1972-1985, 1988: Doug
"Sumu Pretzler" Retzler Collaborations
Collaboration is extremely important to me. It's a way of getting outside of one's own habits by introducing new possibilities that one's collaborator brings into the situation. It's also a way of creating a "Third Mind", to borrow a concept from William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin, a gestalt by definition greater than its individual parts.
I've collaborated with so many people on so many projects that it's hard to bring myself to tackle the task of listing them all here & hard to articulate their individual importance to me. As a beginning, I'll list the people that I've been most firmly partnered with, the ones that I've shared planning & brainstorming sessions with - rather than to include people who've been open to working with me at a more removed level. Of course, that distinction isn't always clear-cut.
This results in the hopefully temporary exclusion of listing everyone that I've ever played (M)Usic with, eg, which would be a list of hundreds of people.
Instead, this is a list of people that I've either co-conceived projects with or that've contributed substantial energy beyond the norm to a project I conceived by myself. It also includes people that I've worked with on multiple projects over long periods of time.
Two exceptions to the above limiting filtration are Pamelia Stickney & Libby Ramer, people that I collaborated with minimally but made such substantial pieces in connection with that they seem worth linking to here.
For the moment, I'll omit people I may've worked with but who mostly worked against me for various 'reasons' that I find objectionable - such as to feed their own vanity - a problem common to shallow artists that I've had the good fortune to mostly avoid.
The dates that're shown are somewhat confusing. The main period of collaboration may not be as continuous as the dating might seem to imply. If a year follows a comma it basically means that no collaboration took place in the year gap leading up to it. EG: I collaborated mainly with Doug Retzler from 1979 to 1984 but 'acted' in a movie of his in 1972ish before this period - & I made a movie with him in 1988 after this period. If & when this website develops I'll try to make the info more specific.
End dates don't necessarily mean that I've stopped collaborating with someone - it just means that that was the last year that we collaborated. In many cases, we'll probably continue to work with each other. The dates can also be deceptive in the sense that a short period doesn't necessarily mean a shallow interaction & a long period doesn't necessarily mean a profound one.
- October 10, 2016 (etc) notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
1972-1985, 1988: Doug
"Sumu Pretzler" Retzler
1975-1980: Charlie "Chas" Brohawn
1976-1981, 2010-2011, 2015: Paula "Polio Vasslene" Gillen
1979-1981, 1988: Richard Tryzno Ellsberry
1979-1982, 1988: Casandra "HannaH AvivA" von Rinteln
1980-2010: Monty Cantsin Amen
1982-1983, 1997-1998: Dave Bakker
1984, 1988: Gail Litfin
1984, 1988: Reinhardt U. Sevol
1984, 1988: Via Vidorae
1985-1997: John Berndt
1986-2021: Vermin
Supreme
1986-1988: Norman Yeh
1987-1997: Neil Feather
1987-1989: John Sheehan
1987-1991: Laura Adele "Truseal"
1984, 1988: Pete Horobin
1988-1989: "Peter Pan" Zahorescz
1989-1993: Jake T. Unclean
1990-1993: John Eaton
1992: Rebecca Barten
1993-2010: Florian Cramer
1994-1997: John Henry Nyenhuis
1995-2016: Ben Opie
1996-2005: etta cetera
1997-2013: Michael Pestel
1997-2016: Hyla Willis
2000: Karen Eliot
2000: Warren
Burt
2000-2010: Joy Toujours
2001-2015: Spat Cannon
2003-2011: Sylli G
2005-2015: Julie
Gonzalez
2008-2009: Johan Nystrom
2008-2016: Kenny Haney
2008-2017: Roger Dannenberg
2008-2015: David Bernabo
2008-2011: Ben Harris
2008-2016: Unfinished Symphonies
2009-2013: Rich Pell
2012-2017: Matt Aelmore
2014-2016: Ryan Broughman
2017: Pamelia
Stickney
2017: Libby
Ramer
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