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The illustrations or "illumagery" by Sorin complement the fractured and inventive texts by Basinski. The frenzied texts are fashioned in a Neo-Dada like context and arrangement that are probably performed by Basinski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing as well as many of other works by Basinski is performed by Basinski in his unique, extemporaneous manner. Basinski writed in an accompanying letter, "Here in paper work from mailed FISH FRY (A favorite in Catholic Lent old time buffalo - I find it most amsusing (sic) like a spring rite of passage). Hope you are well and thank you for adding FISH FRY to your marvelous collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card provides instruction for this Fluxus-like piece: "Ask several people in the audience to bark like dogs and cue and correct them. Variously tell them to shut up." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is also designated as Card 26 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss conributed the envelope and cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is also designated as Card 22 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss contributed the envelope and cover designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikepedia: "In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication. In this state, they would lose all self-control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear to pieces animals "” and, in myth at least, sometimes men and children "” devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a cluster of leaves; they would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes." According to the Basinski's inscription on the verso of the drawing, "the Maenads had ladder like tattoes groves on their arms And I...

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The poems in this work are entitled "Elephants Ensembled Poem" and "80th Birthday Event for Jackson Mac Low." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece was performed by Michael Basinski at the Perez Art Museum Miami on March 22, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition "A Human Document: Selections from The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.