Esopus 18

Printed on eight different paper stocks and featuring more than 100 die-cuts created by hand, Esopus 18 include artists' projects by Bill Burns, Bryan Nash Gill and Mary Lum; facsimile reproductions of materials from the MoMA Archives related to the museum's groundbreaking Spaces exhibition from 1969; never-before-seen early portraits by Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann; new fiction by Victoria Matsui; another found object contributed by archivist Rich Remsberg; 100 frames from acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's undistributed 1999 short film Ode , with an introduction by Amy Taubin; and a selection of pages from the guest book of art critic Dorothy Adlow and her husband, the legendary composer, conductor and musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. The issue closes with a compilation CD containing songs inspired by Slonimsky's hugely influential 1947 book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns . Contributors to the CD include Andrew Bird, Lee Ranaldo, Elliott Sharp, Cat Martino and Horse Feathers.