Sound poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 402 Collections and/or Records:
ABC in Sound: Sound Poems 4th Ed / Cobbing, Bob., 1986
Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17534-17900
Scope and Contents
Each page contains a poem for a letter of the alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1986
Alphabet of Californian Fishes, 1992
Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-20237-20633
Dates:
1992
Alphabet of Fishes, 1992
Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-20234-20630
Dates:
1992
Alphabet of Fishes / Cobbing, Bob., 1996
Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-45002-47178
Dates:
1996
Alphabet of Fishes from Cornwall Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1976
Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17785-18155
Dates:
1976
Ambrose Dominic Moses / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob., 1995
Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-49283-70325
Dates:
1995
Ana 1 - 5 / Cobbing, Bob., 1972
Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17516-17882
Scope and Contents
This book represents a performance copy of "Spearhead" (2nd & 3rd editions held by Sackner Archive) onto which is added written and typed notes. There are five performances of "Ana." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1972
Ana Perenna, 1992
Item — Folder 22: [Barcode: 31858072459815]
Identifier: CC-20239-20635
Dates:
1992
And Avocado / Cobbing, Bob., 1977
Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17501-17867
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number ten. The text is an alphabetical list of plants each referring to its scientific name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1977
Antibody Origins, 1976
Item — Box 44: [Barcode: 31858073143855]
Identifier: CC-17264-17622
Dates:
1976
Antologia Polipoetica, 1986
Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]
Identifier: CC-49193-70234
Scope and Contents
The whole object includes a cassette tape and box, but these have been separated from the book.
Dates:
1986
as i was saying / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996
Item — Box 390: [Barcode: 31858072461548]
Identifier: CC-44980-47155
Dates:
1996
Ballads of the Restless Are, 1968
Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-30415-31835
Dates:
1968
Ballet of the Speech Organs: On Bob Cobbing / Cobbing, Bob ; Smith, Steven Ross ; Toop D ; Cheek C ; Griffiths B ; Adler J ; Burwell P ; Hollo A ; Harwood L ; Nuttall J ; Rowan J ; Claire P ; bissett b ; Valoch J ; Ginsberg A ; Jandl E ; Nichol bp ; Dufrene F ; Kerouac J ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Chopin H ; Stein G ; DeVree P., 1998
Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-44993-47169
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...
Dates:
1998
Bang On / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996
Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44944-47117
Dates:
1996