Impulse Magazine Archive Of Publications.

Volume 4 Number 4 + Volume 5 Number 1, 1976

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editor:

Anne Hall.

Table of Contents:

Editor's Introduction; Suzy Lake; Colleen Kennedy; Les Levine; David Young; Rodney Werden; Susan Musgrave; Ralph Fones; Margaret Campbell; Diane Boadway; Lorne Fromer; Anne Wordsworth; Wendy Knox-Leet; Sue Swan; Colette Whiten; Vince Sharp; Maurizio Nannucci; Eldon Garnet; Joe Hall; Michael Snow; Hans Jewinski; David McFadden; Vincent Tangredi; Peter Dudar; Bobbe Besold; Chrysanne Stathacos; Vic D'or; By example; Brian Trevers; Stephen Shortt; Massimo Nannucci; Dawn Eagle; Basia Irland; Joe Rosenblatt; John Lander; Jack McCluskey; Paul Campbell; Barbara Astman; R Right; Pearl White; David Hlynsky; Gary Michael Dault; Ruby Etch; Edwina Frankford; John Scott; John MacGregor; Fletcher Starbuck; A.S.A. Harrison; Steve McCaffery; Penny Chalmers; Judy Keeler; Amirgo Marras; General Idea; L C Foot; Mark Lightbody; Dave Godfrey; Art Canada; Heather McDonald; R Rose; Francoise Sullivan; Art life; Paul Harnett.

Editorial:

it is Tiresias who begins it all the prophetic seer saying : "yes, if he does not come to know himself" the boy Narcissus will live a long life & the dark river nymph Liriope embraced by the curving stream Cephisus imprisoned in his waves & forcefully loved to bare Narcissus the image of his mother's beauty at 16 who could be called boy & man his soft young body by pride unyielding to the touch of boy or girl

Echo when she still had a body & was not just a voice saw the boy driving deer into his nets & she fell into love

for holding Juno from the truth by the chatter of her tongue Echo is stripped of her power of invention & left with only imitation when she saw Narcissus wandering through the woods she followed secretly in his steps & she could not articulate her pleas only wait for words she might echo

Narcissus lost from his friends calls out: "is there anyone here?"

Echo: "here"

Narcissus: "come"

Echo: "come"

Narcissus looking behind him: "why are you avoiding me?"

Echo: "why are you avoiding me?"

Narcissus: "come here & let us meet"

Echo: "let us meet" running from the woods embracing but Narcissus retreating "away with these embraces. i would die before i would have you touch me"

she hid her shamed face in the shelter of leaves & ran to the lonely caves & the pain in her heart would not let her sleep & she became thin slowly wasted her beauty the morning mist into the dry air & only her voice and bones remained till finally only her voice in the woods in the mountains in the empty room. she lives another he had ignored complained to heaven: "may he himself fall into the empty love as we have with him" & Nemesis heard Narcissus tired from the hunt hot lay down beside a pure pool where shepherds goats or cattle had never been. a place of peace undisturbed by bird or beast or falling branches. protected by trees ever cool to relieve his thirst drank & as he drank fell in love held enchanted by his self motionless. stars his eyes ivory his skin the rose flush on the smooth snow. wanted himself seeking & sought himself the flame which he burned. to kiss the pool reaching deep into the water to touch. he did not know. himslef to hold the drifting image. it comes with you & lasts while you are present, it will depart when you depart if you are able no food no sleep unable to leave the pool stretched on the grass fixed on himself with eyes that could never be filled by his eyes undone: "woods has anyone felt a crueler love? i see my love but the form i see i cannot reach. not separated by endless ocean or highway or mountain or city wall with barred gate only a little water. my love desires me. i lean forward to kiss the clear waters he lifts his face to mine. why do you elude me? your looks offer me hope. when i stretch my arms to you stretch your arms to me, you laugh when i laugh, your tears when i weep, your lips answer in words that never reach my ears. i know & i am not deceived by my image. i burn with love for myself the flame which i must endure. what i desire i possess, my riches make me poor. i pray to separate myself from myself, a lover i wish the lover i love away. little life remains, i am cut off the flower of my youth. i have no objection to death in death i will forget my pain only i wish my love might outlive me but we must die together"

the tears from his eyes disturbed the water the pool rippled the image grew faint & as he saw it disappearing cried: "stay, do not desert your love. if i cannot touch let me look let me feed my love in sight" beating his breast till it bled "for the boy i love in vain" reaching into the red water entering himself. nothing remained. the echo from the woods: "for the boy i love in vain"

in the underworld he kept looking at himself in the waters of the Styx. his sisters the nymphs of the spring mourned for him cut off their hair in tribute to their brother Echo singing her refrain to their lament for the pyre for the torches no body was found only a flower with a circle of white petals round a yellow centre for this circle Tiresias can be blamed.

Eldon Garnet

Volume 5 Number 2, 1976

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Published by:

what about music & eyeball wine music.

Recorded at:

MSR productions; Ancaster, Ontario.

The issue is a 12" long-playing record by Joe Hall, 'HJ Boenke' (Written and Composed by Joe Hall)

Volume 5 Number 3, Winter 1977

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Contributing Editor:

Vincent Tangredi.

Business Manager:

Ann Hall.

Design and Concept:

Vincent Tangredi and Eldon Garnet.

Table of Contents:

Letters; John Fernie; Gar Smith, 'Romance and Finance Beauty and Bureaucrats'; Patti Smith; Peter Anson, 'Free Music'; Vincent Tangredi, 'Beautiful Blud'; Lorne Fromer, 'Of Muscle and Men'; Opal L. Nations 'A Pen, Some Paper, Pen & Paper'; N. E. Thing CO.'s Eye Scream; Eldon Garnet, 'A Critical Investigation'; Joe Hall, 'HJ Boenke'.

Editorial:

Quantum mechanics has recently hypothesized with xtrastenchial Hegelian dichotomy religious fantasy that the whole of space is filled with pairs of "virtual" particles & antiparticles who/that are constantly materializing in pairs, separating & then coming together again & annihilating each other. In the presence of a (one of many) black hole(s) the drama begins: one member of a pair of virtual particles may fall into the hole; so tragic; leaving the other member without a partner with which to annihilate. The forsaken particle or antiparticle may fall into the black hole after its partner, but he may also escape to infinity, where she appears to be radiation emitted by the black hole.

Eldon Garnet

Volume 5 Number 4 + Volume 6 Number 1, 1977

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Business Manager:

Ann Hall.

Table of Contents:

Photographs by Les Levine; Five Ohhh.

Editorial:

Disposable Sculptures. The space occupied by an activity. The time used between spaces to concentrate on problems in art. The following photographs are proposals for a series of sculptures with performers yet to be executed. Each photograph is a working plan for a sculpture with performers. Any person may make the sculpture according to the information contained in an individual photograph.

Les Levine

Volume 6 Number 2, Winter 1977

Impulse Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Impressions Editor:

Isaac Applebaum. Newswire photographs.

Editorial:

These photographic reproductions constitute the raw material of our newspaper imagery. Transmitted as current through wire or as electromagnetic wave through the atmosphere: they are news photographs.

The photoelectric technology which produced these images is revolutionary yet archaic. These images represent a quarter century of photographic transmission employing electrosensitive paper as the recording medium, a technology which will soon be usurped by a more sophisticated process.

We have become acclimatized to the electric transmission of images through television, but it was not until the early 1950's that the images no longer had to be carried by hand from point A to point B, but became electric, as the word had in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph & the telephone. When artists first began producing multiple prints by means of the stone, metal, or wood plate they released the image from its one-of-a-kind preciousness as painting or illumination into a mass information vehicle able to exercise a pervasive influence.

As the identity of the early mass-media artist is generally unknown today so the person of the photographer & writer of the news photograph is submerged in an attitude of anonymous reporting of the news : the capitalist's press articulates the desire to disseminate information which is an accurate, impartial, descriptive rendering. In our present electric era the news event has broadened, beyond recording the lives of power mongers, genocide & the machination of the beast, into a concern for individual men & women balanced on the edge of their particular lives. As history becomes more democratic & anonymous, the specific identities of the actors become less important than the metaphor of their actions.

In the electric news drama, our history, our myth, has become not the actions of a select few, but a complex collection of individual & group actions; it has become our total environment.

The play, the myth, the environment is endless, repetitious, fragmented, & being constantly adapted by the actors & audience as they freely interchange roles: every time an actor is killed, a part of the audience must also die.

The photographs of this book are presented in their original format, products of the K-300 receiver, offered as a few more edited random moments of our present history.

Eldon Garnet

Volume 6 Number 3, 1978

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Published:

Editor with the assistance of the Canada Council & the Ontario Arts Council.

'Einstein's Joke' was conceptualized by Eldon Garnet, shot as a super-8 film by Duncan Johnston, with Jack McCluskey as the second peasant. The issue was released as a 4"x6" microfiche ('cinefiche') and an invitation to screenings of 'Einstein's Joke' in San Francisco and Toronto.

Les Levine

Volume 6 Number 4 + Volume 7 Number 1, 1978

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editors:

M. A. Hanet and Anne Milne.

Business Manager:

Trudi Brintnell.

Design:

M. A. Hanet and Eldon Garnet.

Table of Contents:

Bill Gaglione and Anna Banana, 'Alternation of Character/Alerazione Di Charattere'; Bruce Andrews, 'Love Song No. 29'; Michael Snow, 'Larry Dubin's music'; Dan Ulaky; Mary Lou Dickinson 'Which One Are You?'; Savas Patsalidis, 'What A Guy!'; 'This Car Up'; Lola Michael, 'Interview: The Viletones'; Duane Michals, 'A Portrait'; Isaac Applebaum, 'Electra At The Sylvère Dollar'; Anne Milne, '20 Questions'; Pedro Vasquez, 'God Shave The Queen'; Michael Gibbs, 'So Bigger'; 'Aliementation Impulsion'; Patti Smith; Davi Det Hompson; Buster Cleveland, 'Fill Out & Send'.

Editorial:

The lines that have been drawn. The plan is simple, utilitarian & classical. After 7 years of format investigation Impulse is now experimenting with the standard format. Touch the square. The seventies are ending, the eighties are beginning. The grid is intended to bring the lines to tension to create what will transform the past into the present into the future. Our ability through Impulse to manipulate is limited but our ability to act as a 'centre' is open. With this we are setting out the format, the package which may absorb & transmit. The magazine. A moving centre in the network. It is not a vacuum which asks to be filled but a structure, a grid ready for the images of the construction. By example, here the prototype.

Eldon Garnet

Volume 7 Number 2 + 3, Spring 1979

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editor:

M. A. Hanet & Anne Milne & Trudi Brintnell.

Advertising:

Anne Pepper.

Table of Contents:

Victor Coleman, 'Doppleganger (Sonnets)'; Dennis Oppenheim, 'I Shot The Sheriff(Art)'; Isaac Applebaum 'Naked Lunch (photo/poem)'; Martha Hawley, 'Deah Maw (poem)'; George Manupelli 'Almost Crying (a film)'; Dawn Eagle, 'Vixen K (narrative)'; Gary Greenwood, 'The Distance Between (photography)'; David Young 'Spotting: A Case Story (fiction)'; Karl Jirgens 'Underwater Hockey: The Championships'; 'The Basic Home Communicator: A Proposal'; James Wines, 'Site, An Architectural Group: Three Projects'; 'Hockey & Television: An Examination', David Hlynsky, 'Lasers: Random Notes In New Developments'; Correspondence; Eldon Garnet, 'Personal Hygiene: Dental Floss vs. Periodontal Disease'; M. A. Hanet 'Alimentation Impulsion: TV Meals, Four Hot New Dishes'; Lola Michael 'Interview: Blondie, A Toronto Conversation'; 'Off The Wire: A Computer Thief'.

Volume 7 Number 4, Summer 1979

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editor:

M. A. Hanet, Anne Milne and Trudi Brintnell.

Advertising:

Anne Pepper.

Table of Contents:

Rodney Werden, 'Baby Dolls'; Judith Doyle, 'Robotics- A Case Study'; Kim Todd, 'Atomic Statement'; Martin Avery, 'Just A Picosecond (story)'; William Wheeler, 'Discourse: A Coin'; John Brown, 'What Kind Of Gun Are These You Got'; Interview with Sylvère Lotringer; Joe Vykydal, 'An Introduction To Monster Hunting'; Willoughby Sharp, 'Toward the Teleculture'; Chris Burden, 'The Curse Of Big Job'; Interconnect; Eldon Garnet, 'Personal Hygiene: A Perceptual Motor Skill'; Michael Duddy, 'Architecture: The Plaza'; Of The Wire: Einstein; Lola Michael, 'Interview: The Only Ones'; Mary Ann Hanet and Anne Milne, 'Alimentation Impulsion: Bigos'.

Volume 8 Number 1, Fall 1979

Editor:

Eldon Garnet.

Associate Editor:

Shelagh Alexander and Anne Milne.

Contributing Editor (New York):

Willoughby Sharp.

Table of Contents:

Impulse, 'Interconnect'; Lola Michael, 'Divine'; Science Council of Canada, 'A Technology Policy For Canada'; Tom Sherman, 'Once Living In A Healthy State Of Paranoia'; Jonathan Richman; Gilbert McElroy, 'Island'; Willoughby Sharp, 'Toward The Teleculture Part II'; Ross McLaren, 'Microfiche Insert'; Shelagh Alexander, 'Mr. Leather Chicago '79'; Excel, 'Fashion'; Les Levine, 'Deep Gossip: A Video Novel'; J. Kit Miller, 'Monkeys Eat Red Peppers'; Philip Hughes, 'Little Blank Crambo'; Michael Duddy, 'Thinking Post Modern'; P.L. Noble, 'Devo'.

Editorial:

One of the prime functions of the artist throughout history has been to aid in the improvement of man's environment. Today it isn't enough merely to work the surface, to add to the existing structure.

The current demand is for deep change: not simply to cover the wall but to rebuild it from the core.

The artist's obligation to his environment goes beyond decorative improvement.

The technological revolution has made it clear that the entire social, economic and political structure of the world is rapidly changing and the artist who isn't sensitive to these changes cannot be considered an artist.

The concepts expressed in The Science Council of Canada's A Technology Policy are an example of the analytic self-examination and planning strategy necessary in every phase of modem life: to be aware of the current situation and to offer positive actions for the future.

The artist of today and tomorrow will be a social innovator, aware of technology and its pervasive ability to institute cultural change.

Impulse supports the artist on the edge whose view is to the future. Painting, sculpture, drawing, the plastic arts are historical and no more interesting than wallpaper design.

Edwin Land, the inventor of the Polaroid process, has done more for photography than Ansel Adams, the landscape photographer.

As a cultural magazine, Impulse attempts to aid in the introduction of new modes of communication and perception; to think postmodern; to break loose of the existing confines into the unexplored.

Our vitality continues to be our growth.

Eldon Garnet

Volume 8 Number 2, Spring 1980

Publisher:

Eldon Garnet.

Editors:

Eldon Garnet and Shelagh Alexander.

Contributing Editors:

Anne Milne and Willoughby Sharp (New York).

Design:

Shelagh Alexander and Eldon Garnet.

Table of Contents:

Andrew James Paterson, 'Flat Tire'; Leila Angelic Interview, 'Capturing Toronto',; Norman White, 'The Tinkerer's Robot'; Scott Gladden; Peter Noble, 'Iggy Pop: History Starts Here'; Adam Swica; Michael Kieran, 'Buckminster Fuller'; Mac Adams, 'Mysteries'; Judith Doyle, 'Conversational Machines'; Tom Dean, 'The Floating Staircase'; Eldon Garnet, 'Bob Colacello Interview(ed)'; Two New Projects by Site; Barbara de Genevieve; A.S.A. Harrison, 'Nellie's Mistake'; Krzysztof Wodiczko, 'Vehicles'; Anne Milne, 'Grapple'; John Brown, 'Rich People'; Annie Nikolajevich and George Whiteside, 'Future Image Language'; Ralph Alfonso, 'More Politics of New Wave'; John Greyson, 'Eavesdrop'.

Volume 8 Number 3, Summer 1980

Publisher:

Eldon Garnet.

Editors:

Eldon Garnet and Shelagh Alexander.

Contributing Editors:

Judith Dolye and Anne Milne; New York: Lisa Baumgardner and Willoughby Sharp.

Design:

Shelagh Alexander and Eldon Garnet.

Advertising:

Tony Hardingham.

Table of Contents:

Randy & Berenicci, 'The Singapore Postcards'; Donna Lypchuk, 'Baby Snooky Come Back'; David Hlynsky & Michael Sowdon, '3-D Perspectives'; Steven Davey, 'America'; Willoughby Sharp, 'Zero Time Data Hideout: Alain Robbe-Grillet Interviewed'; David Buchan & George Whiteside, R. Dick Trace-It, 'Seven Days A Week'; Peter Noble, 'John Lydon Gets His Palm Read', 'Now Tell Us Ondine' Impulse interview; Philip Monk, 'Exits'; Constance De Jong, 'Oh, Those Desert Nights!'; Robin Collyer, 'Untitled Magazine Pages 37-40'; Judith Doyle, 'Envy'; Peter Noble, 'Wobble'; Carl Loeffler, 'Notes On The Future Of Television'; Michael Kieran, 'Humanova: Evolving In Space'.

Volume 8 Number 4, Fall/Winter 1980

Publisher:

Eldon Garnet.

Editors:

Eldon Garnet and Shelagh Alexander.

Business Manager:

Sydney Dinsmore.

Contributing Editors:

Judith Doyle; New York:

Lisa Baumgardner-Bachner and Willoughby Sharp.

Design:

Shelagh Alexander and Eldon Garnet.

Design Assistance:

Michael Wurstlin. Advertising:

Tony Hardingham.

Typography:

Alphabets.

Table of Contents:

Peter Noble, 'Martha and The Muffins'; Cece Cole and Patrick Mata, 'Nina Hagen', Lisa Baumgardner-Bachner, 'Lech Kowalski'; 'Harry Smith'; Carole Corbeil, 'Censorship: Magazine Repression'; Eldon Garnet, 'Escapism'; Philip Monk, 'Violence and Representation'; Randy & Berenicci, 'Metaphor For the 80's: the Cockfight'; Kenneth Decker, 'Tony Chestnut Talking'; David Hlynsky, 'The Day Time Stopped Standing Still'; Tom Sherman, 'How to Watch Television'; Paul Rutkovsky, 'Commodity Characters'; Michael Wurstlin, 'Growing up in a Safe, Healthful Community'; Willoughby Sharp, 'Hazel Henderson'; Shelagh Alexander & Andrew James Paterson, 'The Flying Objects'; Impulse Questionnaire compiled by Judy Keeler.