Ty Bouque
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Ty Bouque
writer | vocalist
 

Preposterous Reading is a permanently free, ongoing series of Substack essays. Taking Mieke Bal’s notion of “pre-posterous history” as a framework, it thinks about influence in reverse: if a composer actively casts their sensibilities in relation to another non-musical artist, what might the music (the “influenced”; post-) reveal about the art (the influence; pre-)? Drawing across literature, film, dance, and art, Preposterous Reading is an attempt to productively engage the library of interlocutors shaping contemporary music today.

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How I Love You (i): Enno Poppe and Marcel Beyer
How I Love You (i): Enno Poppe and Marcel Beyer

I don’t think there’s any need to talk about titles.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024preposterous reading
(title matter): Clara Iannotta and Dorothy Molloy
(title matter): Clara Iannotta and Dorothy Molloy

This is an essay about what is already no longer known.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024preposterous reading
AS IN: Rebecca Saunders and Ed Atkins
AS IN: Rebecca Saunders and Ed Atkins

(Nothing can ever prepare you for how quickly heat leaves the body when it dies)

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024preposterous reading
tender contingencies: Timothy McCormack and Gerhard Richter
tender contingencies: Timothy McCormack and Gerhard Richter

“And bitch… all that paint?!”

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024preposterous reading
swarming: Liza Lim and Beth Yahp
swarming: Liza Lim and Beth Yahp

“Like Yahp, Liza Lim believes in possession. She believes in the invisible and in hidden presences, in the ventriloquism of the living by the dead. She too sees lovers twirling in staircases, lizard boys with their fists curled around charred ghost-hunting knives.”

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Ty BouqueJune 18, 2024preposterous reading

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