Complete Reading (53:51):
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Segue Series Reading at The
Ear Inn
, New York, February 1, 1992
Introduction (1:08):
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Forties 8 (5:20):
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Forties 19 (10:21):
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Forties 17 (4:52):
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Forties 16 (5:13):
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A Lagoon Elucidation (7:48):
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Hop Tempestuous (a poem for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge) (2:08):
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Taking the Doctor's Suggestion (2:19):
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Duchamp (3:03):
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Rebus Effort Remove Government (2:35):
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They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice (2:49):
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Complete Reading (48:01):
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(There is a five-second pause around 45:00 when the tape was turned over.)
Charles Bernstein poetics seminar,
Wednesday @ Four Plus
, SUNY Buffalo, October 11, 1990
Reading a selection from
Tender Buttons
by Gertrude Stein and his
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
#6 essay on the book (7:02):
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reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass" (Gertrude Stein) (1:58):
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Reading A Selection from
Tender Buttons
Language
No. 6) (4:59):
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Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42):
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Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25):
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Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23):
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Discussing close reading of MacLow’s poetry vs. Gertrude Stein’s poetry (6:41):
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Stein as perceiver-centered (1:50):
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close connection between Stein's writing and the kind Mac Low and many other Language writers do (0:34):
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CB on Mac Low's procedure-based work as it relates to Stein's writing (1:06):
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rejecting the notion of a unitary Stein, and discussing the way she composed and her manuscripts (3:10):
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Role of “chance generation” (1:32):
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Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50):
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Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11):
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Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29):
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Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07):
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Discussion of entropy (1:26):
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Meaning in language and sound (3:24):
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Cultural construct of language (1:30):
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Discussion of voice (3:05):
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Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33):
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Complete reading (1:02:50):
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Reading at the Living Theater, NYC, with
Charles Bernstein
and
Nick Piombino
, March 28, 1990
Free Gatha 1, performed with Bernstein and Piombino (5:36):
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Twenties, 1-15 (22:34):
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Songs and Simultaneities, Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos, c. 1985
Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the
Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.
Vocabulary for Anne Tardos, 1980 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice & recorder (8:14) (Mac Low)
Syllables, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (3:28) (Tardos)
Octet for a Sunset, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (6:04) (Tardos)
Heterophony, 1985 - from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1981 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (7:00) (Mac Low)
Aum Gatha, 1982 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (Mac Low)
Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer, 1976 - tape played with Aum Gatha (6:45) (Tardos)
Tara Gatha, 1975 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice and recorder (Mac Low)
Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1984 - Tardos, Mac Low, voices (10:52) (Mac Low)
Figure and Escape, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (7:58) (Tardos)
Featuring
Anne Tardos
Q&A, Residency at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, c. 1984
First voice after Mac Low is
Barrett Watten
Tom Mandel
can also be heard.
On philosophy of humanism (2:40):
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On human value (8:43):
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On identification (9:15):
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On self-perception (6:40):
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On control (3:04):
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On language (2:52):
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On metonymy and metaphor (3:36):
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On discussion (2:53):
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On context (1:39):
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On correctness (5:59):
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On experimentalism (1:42):
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On writing well (1:08):
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On stability (4:07):
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On politics (4:50):
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On choice (8:08):
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On political poetry (5:40):
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On connection (6:23):
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On consciousness (5:13):
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On America (5:13):
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On roundtable (1:29):
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"Politics and Language"
Segue Series Reaing at the
Ear Inn
, New York, March 3, 1984
Complete reading (46:32):
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Segue Series Reading at The
Ear Inn
, New York, January 30, 1982
Introduction by Alan Davies (0:49):
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Hereford Bosons (7:48):
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Wall Rev (0:36):
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Inkling Allegretti (8:38):
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Baltimore Porches (8:31):
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Regular Clerestories (8:28):
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Megrose Trinity Sixfold (1:10):
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Filial Simples (1:27):
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White Tara (1:03):
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Sermon Quail (1:38):
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Anxious Calm (1:06):
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Ten Weeks (2:22):
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A Lack of Balance But Not Fatal (2:31) (cuts off midway in poem):
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Complete Reading (46:34):
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Reading with
Bob Cobbing
and
Tom Leonard
at the Sound & Syntax International Festival of Sound Poetry, 1978
Watch on Media.sas
Reading for
Emily Dickinson's Birthday Celebration
, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Poetry Project, December 10, 1979
Jackson Mac Low (03:51):
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Performance recorded at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD, December 2, 1978
Anthologized in
E. no 3
, 2020
The First Sharon Belle Matla Vocabulary Gatha (10:53):
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Segue Series Reading at The
Ear Inn
, New York, October 1978
1st Milarepa Gatha (5:58):
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This Is the Beginning of Something New (9:39):
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Larry Rosing Piece for typewriter, video and voice (3:13):
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Reading "Objects" from
Tender Buttons
(6:52):
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prefatory comments (1:19):
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reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass (Gertrude Stein) (0:49):
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Reading a Selection from
Tender Buttons
Language
No. 6) (4:40):
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On Strangeness (17:18):
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Asymmetry 1 (0:24):
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Asymmetry 4 (2:33):
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Asymmetry 12 (0:56):
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Complete Reading (49:00):
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(There is a five-second pause around 45:00 when the tape was turned over.)
Appearing on
Public Access Poetry
with Peter Orlovsky, Steven Hall, Arthur Russell and Sharon Matlin, January 26, 1978
Complete video (59:31):
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Video excerpt from above: Jackson Mac Low reads "Phone"
Six Pack Reading, New York, May 22, 1976 (ft.
Pierre Joris
, Openheim)
Complete Recording (1:31:24):
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, from the
Pierre Joris collection
Recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, August 1975
Introduction (5:52):
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The Mantra of Chain Resese (3:31):
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A Vocabulary for PI Moore (10:59):
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36th Light Poem (5:00):
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For and From John Cage (5:21):
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Donna Rita Joseph Conrad (5:54):
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42nd Light Poem (for Paul Goodman)(7:13):
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Gloria (3:49):
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Printout from the 14 PDP3 Poem (5:42):
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Green Tara Mantra (5:33):
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Side A (44:11):
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Side B (17:18):
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Reading from the Naropa Institute, August 11, 1975
Complete Recording (46:49):
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The Peter Innisfree Moore Poems (18:27):
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36th Light Poem (4:02):
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Phoeneme Dance for John Cage (5:11):
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Joseph Conrad Poem (5:45):
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42nd Light Poem (6:40):
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Du-fie (3:31):
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Recording Courtesy of the Naropa Institute
Reading of "Threnody for Sylvia Plath" and "Lucy Church Amiably", May 17, 1975
Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the
Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.
Threnody for Sylvia Plath (34:57):
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Lucy Church Amiably (20:05):
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The Eight-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization Of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gathas", published by
S-Press
as tape #33
8-Voice Stereo Canon
(The 4 over-laid performances begin
on channel one about 20 seconds after they begin on channel two:
a "4-against-4" canon.) "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" was
written (drawn) 8/25/73 & after. Realized and recorded at NYU Composers' Workshop
N.Y. on November 25, 1973. Note: "The Black Tarantula" is one of Kathy
Acker's pseudonyms.
Originally published as a cassette by
S Press Tonbandverlag, Dusseldorf/Munchen, West Germany, 1975.
Complete recording (32:42):
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Reading on the Gathas, New York City, 1970s
Discussion of the Gathas (18:23):
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Call Me Ishmael (0:52):
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Pattern Recognition by Machine (3:22):
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excerpt from The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" (10:49):
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Complete Recording (33:39):
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Reading in New York, February 25, 1964
Complete recording (39:14):
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Includes voice of
Paul Blackburn
and
Robert Kelly
reading “First Biblical Poem” (1955); and ends with Mac Low reading “Presidents” poems and “Alarm Clock".
Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Petr Kotik, Joseph Kubera, and Chris Nappi
perform Emmett Williams's
Cellar Song for Five Voices
This piece was written in 1960. The recording here was made of a performance
in 1990, presented by the S.E.M. Ensemble, recorded by Mikhail Liberman at Paula
Cooper Gallery, 2/6/1990.
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(12:22)
Also on PennSound:
OF RELATED INTEREST:
Various poets read from Counterpath's publication of
Forties
These sound recordings are being
made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All
rights to this recorded material belong to the estate of the
author. © 2006, 2007 Estate of Jackson Mac Low. Used with
permission of Anne Tardos. Distributed by
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