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Sound poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1304 Collections and/or Records:

The Autobiographies of Dick Turpin / P.C. Fencott; S McCaffery., 1980

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Identifier: CC-13326-13627
Scope and Contents

Dick Turpin was a British bandit in the 1800's who was considered to be the "Gentleman of the Road" but who actually was a thug and petty thief. On being sentenced to death, he delivered an eloquent 25 minute speech in a calm voice with the noose around his neck. Fencott's narrative element is intuitive rather than actual autobiography. Steve McCaffery recorded the performance. Also designated No.3 in Underwhich Audiograph Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Autobiographies of Dick Turpin / P.C. Fencott; S McCaffery., 1980

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Identifier: CC-13326-13627
Scope and Contents

Dick Turpin was a British bandit in the 1800's who was considered to be the "Gentleman of the Road" but who actually was a thug and petty thief. On being sentenced to death, he delivered an eloquent 25 minute speech in a calm voice with the noose around his neck. Fencott's narrative element is intuitive rather than actual autobiography. Steve McCaffery recorded the performance. Also designated No.3 in Underwhich Audiograph Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Body Event: David Toop from John Latham / Toop, David ; Latham, John ; Cobbing B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-51611-72710
Scope and Contents

The Body Event is a sound work for computer and voice made by David Toop in collaboration with John Latham in 2004.The transcription of an interview of Latham by Toop was transcribed by Elisa kay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05605-5712
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This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The bpNichol Tribute / bp Nichol; L Tostevin; P Webb; B Dedora; F Wah; D McFadden; G Shikatani; M Ondaatje; P Dutton; S McCaffery; R Barreto-Rivera; Four Horsemen., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05605-5712
Scope and Contents

This recording constitutes a memorial service to bp Nichol from writings chosen and read by his friends on Toronto's Harbourfront, December 2, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Day the Sea Spoke / Wright, Edward., 1969

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Identifier: CC-54529-989991
Scope and Contents Wikipedia Edward Wright (16 July 1912 "“ 16 October 1988) was a painter, typographer and graphic designer.[In the early 1950s he was a member of the Independent Group, and taught at the Central School of Art with Anthony Froshaug, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi. He designed the catalogue for the exhibition This Is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1956.Wright later taught at the London College of Printing, Cambridge University School of Architecture and the Royal College of Art. His architectural lettering work included the foundation stone for Churchill College, Cambridge (1961), and the Flaxman lettering and numbering system for New Scotland Yard's rotating sign (1968), Wright's original concept for which was that its '"revolving triangular shape and reflective steel lettering was symbolic of the Met's constant vigilance in guarding our safety.'[6] in 1963, Wright was a signatory of Ken Garland's First Things First manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...
Dates: 1969

The Development of My Sound Poetry, 1961-1983 / Claire, Paula., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17326-17690
Scope and Contents

Designated ICPA Publication No.2. Consists of an illustrated lecture for The Leading Edge Music Series, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Dik-dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works / Tardos, Anne ; MacLow J., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43588-45666
Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly review: "Excerpting from poetic, video and photographic work from over 12 years, this largish, elegantly designed book is a virtual encyclopedia of artistic techniques mostly operating within the traditions of Dada and collage (Kurt Schwitters looms heavily), Fluxus and early digital art (much of it created with Ataris), right through Language poetry, but creating a gendered, polylingual, image-enhanced reality all its own. In the epistolary dialogue with Lyn Hejinian that prefaces the book, Tardos explains her approach as being one of uncertainty: "Maybe it's a question of creating a condition of not knowing what one is about to do. Or should I say it takes enormous discipline and control to surrender control." Reflecting her nomadic European roots, Tardos also conveys a more poignant concern that her operations between media, not settling on one genre such as "poetry," may strand her in a "liminal" zone between art forms, though not outside of "art." Yet the...
Dates: 2005

The Egyptian Stroboscope (2nd Printing) / levy, d.a. ; Wagner, D.r.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-52341-73464
Scope and Contents

Most of the copies of the first printing were confiscated by the Cleveland Police in the notorious raid of Jim Lowell's book store in 1966. This second printing is "lightly revised." It differs from the first edition by most pages consist of white rather than colored paper stock with less overall pages but stilll a rarity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[The Evolution of Surprise] / Anonymous., 1970

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Identifier: CC-26106-26568
Scope and Contents

These poems, which have ink markings and handwriting by Bob Cobbing, might have been used for publication or performance. They were written by an American, judging from the sentence and language structure and references are made to the Bronx and NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970