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This application led to a book, "Life the Universe and Everything' published by Interim Booksin 1993, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem was published in Kollected Kriss Kringle Vol 4 by Anarcho Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cobbing describes the first time he used words in a non-semantic way (1959). Now does no belive that there are any distinction beween music and art and poetry and dance. He indicates that he does not notate his sound poems because "every shape one sees on a page, conjures up a sound - any sound one hears conjures up a pattern, a mark on the page. Ross asks Cobbing about his sound scores [abstract markings] and how he reads these marks. He cites Norman McLaren who drew a sound track on film. McLaren stated that "a thin line will give you a high sound, a thicker line will give you a lower sound. If you make a little tiny point it'll give you a high 'ping,' if you make it a rounder blob, a biggr blob, it'll give you a 'boom'..." Cobbing indicates than when he makes marks on paper, he writes in sound. Cobbing tells about a painting he made that was exhibited in a library entitled "Integration alone is not enough" (1962/1963) in which Margaret Thatcher, then a local representative saw...

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All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an anthology of Cobbing's works textural and abstract xerox works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.