Cosas que un mutante tiene que saber: más cuentos breves y extraordinario

A collection of 55 short stories and 55 brief musical works composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians, this book comes with two CDs filled with sonic readings and reactions to the concise tales therein. The text was conceived by Reinaldo Laddaga as an imaginary second volume of an 1956 anthology by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Much like theirs, this book comprises an assortment of texts written or compiled by diverse authors, from Virginia Woolf and Emanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars. The musical pieces are little soundtracks to be heard as the reader peruses the pages, which feature original illustrations by Isabelle Vigier. Reinaldo Laddaga has created the fictional second volume of an anthology that Argentinean writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares published in Buenos Aires in 1956. The result is an enchanting and somber collection of very short texts, where the most diverse authors (from Lucian of Samosata to Virginia Woolf, from Emmanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars) tell stories of walking trees, burning dresses, illnesses mysteriously cured and deaths surprisingly reversed. Sonic interpretations of the stories composed by artists and musicians often previously featured on Unsounds. The pieces were created specifically, as personal reactions to the texts and their resonances. From a rich and diverse collection of materials, Reinaldo Laddaga and Yannis Kyriakides have assembled a double CD that is a powerful complement to the reading of the stories, but can be also approached as a self-standing sound work. Composers: Christine Abdelnour, Claudio Baroni, Justin Bennett, Sylvia Borzelli, John Butcher, Alan Courtis, DJ Sniff, Barbara Ellison, Ron Ford, Yannis Kyriakides, Anne LaBerge, Reinaldo Laddaga, Francisco López, Machinefabriek, Andy Moor, Gabriel Paiuk, Santiago Santero and Felipe Waller I. ALGUNOS LUGARES II. ALGUNOS ANIMALES III. ALGUNA GENTE IV. ALGUNOS VIAJES V. ALGUNOS LÍDERES VI. ALGUNAS FAMILIAS VII. ALGUNOS ROMANCES VIII. ALGUNAS ENFERMEDADES IX. ALGUNAS VISIONES X. ALGUNOS EVENTOS XI. COMPOSITORES XII. AGRADECIMIENTOS