Directory of Site Contents

General Information

• Home Page: current news, basic information about the site, and more
• Contact Information: how to contact us by any available means
• Comments: read a list of comments that visitors have left
• Frequently Asked Questions: find out answers to your questions about this site
• Conceptual Questions: information about the ideas behind the project
• More Questions: how to get your question answered if it doesn’t appear here
• Site Directory: that’s this page

Archives

• New Archive: access to all previously posted items about this project
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003: 1.b | 2.b | 3.b | 4.b | 5.b | 6.b | 7.b | 8.b | 9.b | 10 | 11
• 2002: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8.b | 9.b | 10.b | 11.b | 12.b
• 2001: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
• 2000: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
• 1999: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
• 1998: 12
• Chronology: the early days of the Tape-beatles in outline form
• Older News articles 1988 to 1991
• 1991: 1 | 8
• 1990: 1 | 7
• 1989: 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10
• 1988: 3 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11
• Presskit: general information and facts about the project
• High-resolution photos of the group for your publication to download
• Archived sites: This site in 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001

Published Articles

• List of Interviews and Articles
• Meet the Tape-beatles, an in-depth overview of The Tape-beatles ideas and works by Todd Kimm for Icon, January 6, 2000
• Interview with the Tape-beatles by Philip Blackburn for Artpaper, September 1992
• Another Interview with the Tape-beatles by Steev Hise for Synergy
• Questions, and More Answers Eric Benndorf interviews Public Works by e-mail
• Casual Quarter with Public Works Interview on Radio Free Berkeley by Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker, May 13, 1997
• Interview with a Tape-beatle by Godfrey Daniels for X Magazine, 1994
• An Interview with the Tape-beatles by Stephen Perkins for Tractor
• Interview by mail with the Tape-beatles by Anton Viergever for Vital, April 1992
• Local group produces song made from everyday sounds by Jeff Rynott, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, September 18, 1987
• Just What are Tape-beatles? by Bill Stuelke, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, August 5, 1988
• Less Popular than Jesus, Tape-beatles Keep Trying by Lindsay Allen Park, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, August 1, 1991
• The Tape-beatles by Beth Lucht, Neo: The Iowa Entertainer, Iowa City, December 1987
• Perfecting the Art of Plagiarism by Mark Dery, Keyboard Magazine, September 1991
• Tape-beatles Plunder a Media-Mad Culture by Paul Ashby, Pulse, November (?), 1991
• Sample Saturation: Tape-beatles rip-off all of their material by Brendan Kelly, Montreal Mirror, August 15, 1991
• The Tape-beatles are Making a Career of Being Unoriginal from the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 13, 1990
• On “Music with Sound” by Laurence Roberts from Artpaper, 1991
• Article about the Tape-beatles that appeared in the June 1999 issue of Black Book

Reviews of Works and Shows

• List of reviews of our recordings and performances
• A subtle buoyancy of pulse; (1988)
• Music with Sound (1990)
• The Grand Delusion (1993)
• Matter by Public Works (1996)
• Good Times (1999)
• Numbers by Public Works (2001)
• Minneapolis Summit by Escape Mechanism, The Tape-beatles, Steev Hise, and Wobbly (2002)
• Critic’s Choice in The Chicago Reader for the Tape-beatles show at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, April 24, 1999
• Review of Tape-beatles show at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, April 24, 1999
• Review of a Public Works show at ATA Gallery, San Francisco, May 10, 1997
• Review of “Good Times” presentation at Illinois State University’s Center for the Visual Arts, Normal IL, October 25, 2001

Shop

• Shop: Secure online ordering of items we have produced
• Make a Donation: Support our efforts through online donations

Discography and Filmography

• List of all Works
• Discography: our published recordings
• Sample Tracks and Clips from our Recordings and Movies
• A subtle buoyancy of pulse CD
• Music with Sound CD
• Music with Sound picture-disk LP (discontinued)
• The Grand Delusion CD
• Plunderphonic All-Stars LP (discontinued)
• Matter by Public Works; CD
• Good Times CD
• Numbers by Public Works; Vinyl EP
• Minneapolis Summit by Escape Mechanism, The Tape-beatles, Steev Hise, and Wobbly; Mini CD
• Minneapolis Summit by Escape Mechanism, The Tape-beatles, Steev Hise, and Wobbly; Mini VideoCD
• Filmography: our completed film and video projects
• The Grand Delusion in PolyVision
• Matter: a work of ‘expanded cinema’

Shows and Presentations

• Description of our live presentations
• Conceptual Overview of ‘Expanded Cinema’
• Recent Performances: where and when
• Technical Requirements for putting on our screenings
• Screening Diagram showing our projection set up
• Three Set up Examples photos of our set ups in various places
• Table of Projector Throw Distances to help gage room size
• Sample Show Poster which we can provide for publicity

Ideas, Essays, Writings

• List of writings: essays and “history”
• Meet John Doe by Anon.
• No Patent on Ideas by Thomas Jefferson
• How to Spell ‘The Tape-beatles’
• The Avant-Garde Collapses Here: a manifesto of Plagiarism® by The Tape-beatles
• Credit where Credit is Due, discussion from the Plunderphonia list
• Post-Napster Resources from the Nettime list
• [CD Review] Escape Mechanism by The Tape-beatles
• Twenty-four Things You Can Say About The Tape-beatles by PhotoStatic staff writers
• Why the Art of The Tape-beatles Makes Some Listeners Go to Pieces by Clyde Haberman
• Public Works Rises from the Ashes of The Tape-beatles by Ralph Johnson
• Public Works Means Reality for the Third Millennium by N. Tykocynski
• The True Uncensored Story Behind the Demise of the Tape-beatles by John Heck, waiter
• Mass Productions for the New Millennium by the Tape-beatles
• Great Escape: Food Server Tunnels Way to Freedom by John Heck, waiter
• “Good Times”, a play by C.: Mysterious manuscript found in a hole in the wall
• I Feel Bad about “Good Times” by Peter Torrenti
• Why I Hate The Tape-beatles by V. Gurashvili

Web works

• Webworks: works made with the world wide web in mind
• The Disk Rot Papers by John B. McLemore of Green Pond, Alabama
• Disappear by Ralph Johnson (2000) [requires a Shockwave-Flash plug-in]
• Imagined Desires by Ralph Johnson (1999)
• The Construct by Lloyd Dunn (1998)
• ‘Good Times’ release
• Big Gesture
• Far out
• Phone booth
• Static electricity
• ‘The Grand Delusion’ re-issue
• The Glassed-in Laboratories
• ‘Matter’ video release
• Man from Outer Space
• Mountain Choir
• Bearded Scientist
• Office Worker
• Spinning Man
• Sídliště Prosek (Praha-9) Česká Republika

Travel photos

• Prague 1998: The Tape-beatles convene in Prague to work on ‘Good Times’
• San Francisco 1999: Lloyd and Ralph hold a Public Works summit in the Bay Area
• Barcelona 2000: The Tape-beatles perform for the Civic Cultural Center of Barcelona
• Spain and Portugal 2000: After the CCCB gig, John and Lloyd become tourists
• New York 2000: Lloyd visits old Tape-beatle collaborator Geoff Seelinger
• The Intourist: Go home. See it as if you were a tourist. Are there any surprises?
• In Transit: Lloyd moves from the US to Prague, stops in France and Italy
• Wrocław 2002: Recounts a day trip to this beautiful Polish city
• Bratislava 2003: Tape-beatles meet up with friends while in Slovakia to do a show