The video begins with a brief DJ set by Abalos. Cheryl Truong starts off the event with introductions, which are followed by a performance by Abalos. Next, Travis Ortiz reads a statement from his Atelos co-director and editor Lyn Hejinian on publishing The Totality Cantos. Ang takes the mic next and reads from the book for roughly twenty minutes, starting with "Totality Canto 59," before reading cantos 61-7, 39-8, 78-7, 89-8, 93-3. He concludes his set with "A Thousand Records" 96–100.
That's followed by a lengthy discussion involving both Ang and Abalos, which touches upon topics including "choosing words and radio experience," "avant-garde music and street culture," "sampling and the avant-garde," and "the avant-garde and new weapons," in addition to a number of facets of The Totality Cantos: the origins of its title, the formal rules of the series, and its visual art, among others. Abalos closes out the set with another DJ set.
You can watch all of this unfold on PennSound's Brian Ang author page, which is also home to a 2011 session on LA's KChung Radio and an MP3 of him reading "Fenced Femivisions" at the 2011 MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, also in Los Angeles. There, you'll also find links to all ten entries in Ang's Jacket2 commentary series, "PennSound and Politics," which ran in the fall of 2011.
