Bob Cobbing

PennSound Singles

Bob Cobbing and Jennifer Pike, mid-1960s

"Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You" Opening Reception,
Van-Pelt Dietrich Library, October 10, 2007
complete recording (58:52): MP3

speakers (in order):
introduction by Dan Traister, Curator of Special Collections MP3
Ruth Sackner, founder, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry MP3
Al Filreis, Faculty Director, Kelly Writers House MP3
Marvin Sackner, founder, The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry MP3
Matthew Abess, curator MP3

"Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud": A Celebration of Bob Cobbing,
featuring Maggie O'Sullivan, cris cheek, Marvin Sackner, Charles Bernstein,
and Matthew Abess, at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007

(l-r) cris cheek, Matthew Abess, Dr. Marvin Sackner, Maggie O'Sullivan and Charles Bernstein
(photo courtesy of Derek Love)

performances in honor of Bob Cobbing
Maggie O'Sullivan (23:38): MP3
cris cheek (30:55): MP3

a roundtable discussion of the life and work of Bob Cobbing, featuring:
Charles Bernstein: mp3 (2:03)
Marvin Sackner: mp3 (14:37)
Maggie O'Sullivan: mp3 (13:16)
Matthew Abess: mp3 (7:03)
cris cheek: mp3 (12:00)

Bob Perelman and Ron Silliman on Bob Cobbing (interviewed by Al Filreis after the tribute)
complete recording (7:13): MP3

Bob Cobbing: Recordings 1968-2005

Concrete Poetry (1970)
1. Variations on a Theme of Tan (1970) (6:54)

Phonetische Poesie (1971)
1. from ABC in Sound (d - p - t) (1971) (2:43)

Experiments in Disintergrating Language, Konkrete Canticle (1971)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire, Michael Chant)
1. Ga(il s)o(ng) (3:19)
2. Suesequence (4:15)
3. A sandwich poem, consisting of Poem for Voice and the Mandoline and Poem for Gillian (3:23)
4. Hymn to the sacred mushroom (5:13)

POESIA SONORA (1975)
1. Hymn to the sacred mushroom (5:19)
2. 15 Shakespeare-Kaku (8:57)

Fylkingen Text Sound Festival (1975)
1. Portrait of Robin Crozier (5:02)

Various Throats: Volume One No. 11 of the Underwhich Audiographic Series (1982)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing, Keith Musgrove, Steven Smith)
1. Fugitive Poem (3:43)
2. Quatz (5:53)
3. Ouph/Voicings No. 5 (4:11)
4. Duplicator Print (6:55)

Oral Complex at the L.M.C. (1983) (Writers Forum Cassette No. 4)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing, Clive Fencott, John Whiting)
1. Trigram (9:08)
2. Blotting Music (7:33)

Birdyak, Aberration (1988)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing and Hugh Metcalfe)
1. Finn Ships (1:52)
2. Kwatz (3:25)
3. (computer poem) (2:18)
4. KEWYAMXOOKA YAMXAPOOKA (I paint his face) (2:58)
5. Worm (5:05)
6. Destruction in Art (Glasgow) (5:41)
7. Destruction in Art (Aberystwyth) (4:37)
8. Aber (6:29)
9. Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You (4:07)
10. Alphabet of Fishes (1:53)
11. A Daze of All My Daze (2:04)
12. The Sacred Mushroom (4:01)

Birdyak, Green Computer (1988)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing and Hugh Metcalfe)
1. Sod and Sos (1:26)
2. Computer Poem 6 (1:24)
3. Portrait of Robin Crozier (1:32)
4. Green Computer (2:45)
5. Yak Poem (1:31)

The Italian Job (1988)
(Voices: Bob Cobbing and Peter Finch)
1. E Colony (6:17)
2. From A Processual Double Octave, Text-sound-compositions 1 (Sveriges/Fylkingen) (11:20)

Text-Sound-Compositions - A S (2005)
1. Whississippi (8:04)
2. As Easy (7:14)

Miscellaneous Recordings
1. Chamber Music (1968) (9:01)
2. Marvo Movie Natter (Voices: Cobbing, A. Lockwood, Jeff Keen, etc.) (4:13)
3. Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire (Voices: Bob Cobbing and Francois Dufrene) (3:12)

on Radio Radio (produced by Martin Spinelli)
Program Seven (Bob Cobbing) (45:00)
Program Sixteen (Bob Cobbing & Lawrence Upton) (45:00)

for more Cobbing resources, including video, please see Bob Cobbing on UbuWeb

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only.
© 2007 Bob Cobbing. Used with permission of the author. Distributed by PennSound.