Monk Mink Pink Punk is an independent and infrequent publication devoted to innovative, distinctive and creative music and art.
CONTACT: Josh Ronsen • 2001 Brentwood • Austin TX 78757 • USA • josh (at) ronsen (dot) org
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#15 NOW AVAILABLE!
— Interviews with Jim O'Rourke and Michael
Northam
— A Survey on the nature of today's avant-garde
— Reviews of noise music from Israel, Africa, the Mid-East and Asia
— Writings on the music of Kenneth Gaburo, Arsenije
Jovanovic, the Splinter Orchestra, Object and others
— Artwork by Rick Reed
— Never before seen photos of 1970s jazz in Chicago: Mingus!
Braxton! Sun Ra! Max Roach! Cecil
Taylor!
Available only on the web at http://ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/15.
Free!
#13&14 NOT AVAILABLE! — special Mail Art editions — NOT FOR SALE! #13
contributors include: Kat Pukas • Andrew Topel • Don Boyd •
Tamara Wyndham • P.K. Harris • Devon Paulson • Carol Starr
• Dave Baptiste Chirot • Alex V. Cook • Josh Ronsen •
Jeph Jerman • Seth Tisue • Ettore Tomas • John Bennett •
Nell Waters • Miguel Jimenez • G.X. Jupiter-Larsen. #12 Online issue: #11 Online issue: #10 A Very Special
Issue dedicated to The Dangers of Mail Art. 12pgs, $1
#9 6 Interviews with Gygory Ligeti
1972-1997, 2 publsihed in English for the first time! Available only on the
web at http://ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/9.
Free!
#8Special issue: 4 Mail Art Projects from conributors
around the world: "Music Heard in Dreams" — "39 words of Lawrence
Durrell" — "122 Handwritten Variations on Josh Ronsen" —
"Corrections from the Newspaper." — 42 tall pages, $3 #7 Translations of French interviews with Romanian
"acousmatic" composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria
Avram. Available only on the web at: http://ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/7/.
Free!
#6 "Essays By Sound Artists:" writings/graphics
by Giancarlo Toniutti, Francisco Lopez,
John Hudak, Michael Northam, John
Grzinich, Seth Nehil, Gerard Klauder,
RHY Yau, Christopher DeLaurenti, brekekekexkoaxkoax,
Aletha Irby, Joseph Zitt, Eric Cordier,
Steve Peters (writing about Alison Knowles),
Brandon LaBelle, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria
Avram, and Arsenije Jovanovic. 20 unusual pages
on special paper in an aluminum foil cover, NOW
ONLINE!!! #5 Translations of French interviews with Giancarlo
Toniutti, David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol), Bernhard
Günter, Eric Cordier, Eric LaCasa (Syllyk)
and Oliver Charrier. Photo-art by Seth Nehil.
True fiction by
Seth Tisue (with photos). 32 double pgs, $3 #4 interviews with Anthony Coleman,
Zusaan Kali Fasteau and the Coctails. A
suggestion of Mingus records. Personal information of my life and work history.
48pgs, $2 #3 interviews with God
Is My Co-Pilot, Anthony
Coleman (talking about GodCo), PO!, Juliana Lueking.
A record guide to the Hafler Trio. 48pgs, $1 (with order
of other zines). #1 interviews with Illusion of Safety
and Lida Husik. A record guide to Felt.
36pgs. $1 (with order of other zines).
— Interviews with Eric Cordier and Keith Rowe
— The Hidden Meaning of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
— Reviews of noise music from Israel, Texas and the Democraatic Republic
of the Congo
— Writings on the music of Nigel Bunn, Christopher
Delaurenti, Jim Denley and Glen Weyant
— Artwork by Josh Russell
— A collabrative story
Available only on the web at http://ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/12.
Free!
—10 year followup interview with Anthony Coleman
—A Defense of Abstract Art
—Reviews of Israeli and Korean music CDs
—Writings on the music of John Cage and Dale
Lloyd
Available only on the web at http://ronsen.org/monkminkpinkpunk/11.
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...'Illiterature for the Literate' is this zine's motif,
and oh how true it is. I originally jumped right into reading the guts of
this tall skinny zine before reading its forward and slowly began sinking
into a confusion cloud, not knowing if it was my lack of vocabulary knowledge,
the bowl I smoked before starting, or if maybe the zine was playing silly
mind tricks on me. I came to realize it was a bit of all three. Lots of experimental
and dementionated writing, but at a very high level of quality. I am impressed,
but it's like listening to John Zorn in that the scope of accepting audiences
for this seems slim. It's that mixture of sophisticated intellectualism and
rowdy punk ass linguistic anarchy. And on top of all that, this was a mail
art project including dozens of different writers, but each with that same
strange understanding of how to twist words and thoughts. Very nice indeed.
-- Proper Gander #35
....a beautiful new issue. -- Anomalous
Records catalog
....Half of this stuff is over my head, but that's a large part of what's
so wonderful about sifting through it. As you go through here, a weird world
begins to come into focus... This issue is highly recommended... -- Invisible
City
....Special issue of this always cool Austin, Texas-based music 'zine.
-- Aquarius Records
....Very intelligent. -- Kick
Bright Zine Listings & Review
....And building connections and networks of international artistic communication--the
tasks that Mr. Ronsen's zine is undoubtedly committed to--requires us to check
our cultural defenses at the door, set aside these cliches, and maybe actually
listen and learn something. -- Invisible
City
....MMPP is an information magazine with a clear layout that gives some
interesting news from music all around the world. -- Sztuka
Fabryka Archive
.......one of the most vital and eclectic music zines going. With some
uniformly solid record review coverage sitting like cherries on top, this
is a labour of love that is already compulsory reading. -- Broken
Pencil #14
....Josh's mix of the personal and learned, the humorous
and the serious, is appreciated and all too rare these days. -- Caught
in Flux #7
....a rather impressive scope, no? -- Power Toot Catalog #8
....prints some of the most thoughtful record reviews ever. -- Review
Addict
....a zine that stands out from the rest, reviews of records you're unlikely
to find in any other zine. -- Factsheet 5 #62
....mmpp is filled with lots of unusual stuff. -- Power
Toot Catalog #4.
....Finally Josh has published another issue... the always amusing "Reviews
of Reviews" section (this issue's hpless target is Option's Lang Thompson).
-- Caught in Flux #5
....but hey, it's pretty interesting -- Panacea #1
....It's very "meaty" and neatly arranged, making it a bit like a literary
anthology that you want to save or maybe even keep on your bookshelf. I like
Josh's writing because it's very unpretentious and sincere considering the
type of music he's writing about. -- The Question #2
....A fresh collection of writing... I'm throwing this in my backpack for
my next trip to the record store. -- Factsheet 5 #59
....One of the more well-versed music zines I've come across
this time around. In its sphere of coverage, MMPP reads like a miniaturized
version of the late (?) Lowlife or Forced Exposure without the off-putting
attitude. -- Caught in Flux
#3
....The Review of Reviews column, where they critique other magazine's
reviews, is a great idea. -- Browbeat #2
....seems a bit more oriented toward forward-thinking experimental musics.
-- Factsheet 5 #52