• Complete Reading (53:51): MP3

    • Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, February 1, 1992

    1. Introduction (1:08): MP3
    2. Forties 8 (5:20): MP3
    3. Forties 19 (10:21): MP3
    4. Forties 17 (4:52): MP3
    5. Forties 16 (5:13): MP3
    6. A Lagoon Elucidation (7:48): MP3
    7. Hop Tempestuous (a poem for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge) (2:08): MP3
    8. Taking the Doctor's Suggestion (2:19): MP3
    9. Duchamp (3:03): MP3
    10. Rebus Effort Remove Government (2:35): MP3
    11. They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice (2:49): MP3
    Complete Reading (48:01): MP3 (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

    1. 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): MP3
      reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass" (Gertrude Stein) (1:58): MP3
      Reading A Selection from Tender Buttons (Language No. 6) (4:59): MP3
    2. Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42): MP3
    3. Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25): MP3
    4. Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23): MP3
    5. Discussing close reading of MacLow’s poetry vs. Gertrude Stein’s poetry (6:41): MP3
      Stein as perceiver-centered (1:50): MP3
      close connection between Stein's writing and the kind Mac Low and many other Language writers do (0:34): MP3
      CB on Mac Low's procedure-based work as it relates to Stein's writing (1:06): MP3
      rejecting the notion of a unitary Stein, and discussing the way she composed and her manuscripts (3:10): MP3
    6. Role of “chance generation” (1:32): MP3
    7. Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50): MP3
    8. Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11): MP3
    9. Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29): MP3
    10. Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07): MP3
    11. Discussion of entropy (1:26): MP3
    12. Meaning in language and sound (3:24): MP3
    13. Cultural construct of language (1:30): MP3
    14. Discussion of voice (3:05): MP3
    15. Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33): MP3

    Complete reading (1:02:50): MP3

    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): MP3
    • Twenties, 1-15 (22:34): MP3

    Songs and Simultaneities, Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos, c. 1985

    Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.

    1. Vocabulary for Anne Tardos, 1980 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice & recorder (8:14) (Mac Low)
    2. Syllables, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (3:28) (Tardos)
    3. Octet for a Sunset, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (6:04) (Tardos)
    4. Heterophony, 1985 - from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1981 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (7:00) (Mac Low)
    5. Aum Gatha, 1982 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (Mac Low)
    6. Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer, 1976 - tape played with Aum Gatha (6:45) (Tardos)
    1. Tara Gatha, 1975 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice and recorder (Mac Low)
    2. Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1984 - Tardos, Mac Low, voices (10:52) (Mac Low)
    3. 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.

    1. On philosophy of humanism (2:40): MP3
    2. On human value (8:43): MP3
    3. On identification (9:15): MP3
    4. On self-perception (6:40): MP3
    5. On control (3:04): MP3
    6. On language (2:52): MP3
    7. On metonymy and metaphor (3:36): MP3
    8. On discussion (2:53): MP3
    9. On context (1:39): MP3
    10. On correctness (5:59): MP3
    1. On experimentalism (1:42): MP3
    2. On writing well (1:08): MP3
    3. On stability (4:07): MP3
    4. On politics (4:50): MP3
    5. On choice (8:08): MP3
    6. On political poetry (5:40): MP3
    7. On connection (6:23): MP3
    8. On consciousness (5:13): MP3
    9. On America (5:13): MP3
    10. On roundtable (1:29): MP3

    "Politics and Language"

    Segue Series Reaing at the Ear Inn, New York, March 3, 1984

    Complete reading (46:32): MP3

    Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, January 30, 1982

    1. Introduction by Alan Davies (0:49): MP3
    2. Hereford Bosons (7:48): MP3
    3. Wall Rev (0:36): MP3
    4. Inkling Allegretti (8:38): MP3
    5. Baltimore Porches (8:31): MP3
    6. Regular Clerestories (8:28): MP3
    7. Megrose Trinity Sixfold (1:10): MP3
    8. Filial Simples (1:27): MP3
    9. White Tara (1:03): MP3
    10. Sermon Quail (1:38): MP3
    11. Anxious Calm (1:06): MP3
    12. Ten Weeks (2:22): MP3
    13. A Lack of Balance But Not Fatal (2:31) (cuts off midway in poem): MP3
    Complete Reading (46:34): MP3

    Reading with Bob Cobbing and Tom Leonard at the Sound & Syntax International Festival of Sound Poetry, 1978

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    Reading for Emily Dickinson's Birthday Celebration, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery Poetry Project, December 10, 1979

    • Jackson Mac Low (03:51): MP3

    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): MP3

    Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, October 1978

    1. 1st Milarepa Gatha (5:58): MP3
    2. This Is the Beginning of Something New (9:39): MP3
    3. Larry Rosing Piece for typewriter, video and voice (3:13): MP3
    4. Reading "Objects" from Tender Buttons (6:52): MP3
      prefatory comments (1:19): MP3
      reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass (Gertrude Stein) (0:49): MP3
      Reading a Selection from Tender Buttons (Language No. 6) (4:40): MP3
    5. On Strangeness (17:18): MP3
    6. Asymmetry 1 (0:24): MP3
    7. Asymmetry 4 (2:33): MP3
    8. Asymmetry 12 (0:56): MP3
    Complete Reading (49:00): MP3 (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): MOV

    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): MP3

    , from the Pierre Joris collection

    Recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, August 1975

    1. Introduction (5:52): MP3
    2. The Mantra of Chain Resese (3:31): MP3
    3. A Vocabulary for PI Moore (10:59): MP3
    4. 36th Light Poem (5:00): MP3
    5. For and From John Cage (5:21): MP3
    6. Donna Rita Joseph Conrad (5:54): MP3
    7. 42nd Light Poem (for Paul Goodman)(7:13): MP3
    8. Gloria (3:49): MP3
    9. Printout from the 14 PDP3 Poem (5:42): MP3
    10. Green Tara Mantra (5:33): MP3
    • Side A (44:11): MP3
    • Side B (17:18): MP3

    Reading from the Naropa Institute, August 11, 1975

    Complete Recording (46:49): MP3

    1. The Peter Innisfree Moore Poems (18:27): MP3
    2. 36th Light Poem (4:02): MP3
    3. Phoeneme Dance for John Cage (5:11): MP3
    4. Joseph Conrad Poem (5:45): MP3
    5. 42nd Light Poem (6:40): MP3
    6. Du-fie (3:31): MP3

    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.

    1. Threnody for Sylvia Plath (34:57): MP3
    2. Lucy Church Amiably (20:05): MP3

    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): MP3

    Reading on the Gathas, New York City, 1970s

    1. Discussion of the Gathas (18:23): MP3
    2. Call Me Ishmael (0:52): MP3
    3. Pattern Recognition by Machine (3:22): MP3
    4. excerpt from The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" (10:49): MP3
    • Complete Recording (33:39): MP3

    Reading in New York, February 25, 1964

    Complete recording (39:14): MP3

    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.     MP3 (12:22)

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