I have a 30 minute subway commute to the office in the mornings, and it's pretty much "dead" time. I get woozy if I try to read for more than a couple stops, and I dislike listening to music because I have to crank up the volume so high just to hear it properly.
However, I'm tempted to give some of these literary and sound art MP3s a whirl during that long dead stretch. There's a bunch of stuff from Canadian poet Christian Bök, some Dada works, a poetry series that includes readings by Patti Smith, Philip Glass, and Laurie Anderson (among others) -- just too many to list them all. (Props to Cup of Chicha for the link.)
And, just because, here's some related linkage that I'd thrown up on del.icio.us a while back:
- Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art
- A Working Terminology for Minimal Music
- symphony for dot matrix printers
Addendum: Almost immediately after I posted this, I checked del.icio.us again to see what's new, and found pointers to two Philip Glass MP3s that are available for free download (registration required) on Amazon.com: 100,000 People and The Fog of War, both from the soundtrack to the movie The Fog of War.
Addendum 2: One more Philip Glass download: Music Box, from The Music of Candyman.
Addendum 3: (Last one, I promise.) Here's complete list of MP3 downloads from Philip Glass available at Amazon.com. And -- another find from del.icio.us -- The Sound of Mathematics features "MIDI files of algorithmic music determined by mathematics and the musical preferences of a human".