Mann, Chris - Tuesday

Chris Mann.  Tuesday.  Melbourne, Australia: Collective Effort Press, 1989.Staple-bound softcover. 32 pages including covers.  Very good.  Minor toning and soiling to covers. Unobtrusive creases to bottom left and right.  Scarce prose work.  "Chris Mann (March 9, 1949 Australia–September 12, 2018 New York NY) was an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm saying better than I do". He was, in the last 2 decades of his life, based in New York City. Mann studied Chinese and linguistics at the University of Melbourne, and his interest in language, systems, and philosophy is evident in his work. Mann founded the New Music Centre in 1972 and taught at the State College of Victoria in the mid-1970s. He then left teaching to work on research projects involving cultural ideas of information theory and has been recognized by UNESCO f