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Barrett Watten

photo: Mark Scroggins

Group Reading at Modernist Studies Association, Hallwall's Contemporary Art Center, Heatstrings, Buffalo, October 7, 2011

complete reading (4:58): MP3

Reading at Alan Golding's House, University of Louisvulle Conference, February 26, 2011

complete reading (8:44): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading at ArtShare, LA, January 8, 2011

complete reading (5:29): MP3

MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009

Complete Reading (2:36:46): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 29, 2009

Film available from Double Change archives.

On A Voice Box, The New Reading Series, Oakland, March 6, 2009

Complete Reading (40:15): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, October 13, 2007

Introduction (4:16): MP3
Complete Reading (43:11): MP3
(note: reading fades out prematurely at the end)

from the MLA Off-Site Readings

2004 Reading (part two)

Complete Recording (1:04:42):MP3
(note: reading cuts off prematurely at the end)

2006 Reading (part three)

Dream (1:53): MP3

Dream of a Post-Soviet MLA (2:40): MP3

Complete Recording (40:05): MP3

2007 Reading

"Correlation of 'Paterson,' Book 1" (4:19): MP3

Complete Recording (2:07:08): MP3

Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, October 3, 2000

Introduction (1:46): MP3
Opening Comments (5:28): MP3
from The Grand Piano, 1 May 1975 (3:43): MP3
from The Grand Piano, Section I (18:04): MP3

Complete Reading (29:02): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, November 15, 1999

Introduction by Carine Daly (3:10): MP3
Complete Reading (53:34): MP3

From Philly Talks Episode 13, November 15, 1999

Tibet (1:20): MP3
From The Grand Piano (6:26): MP3
With Wittgenstein (1:17): MP3
Watten to DuPlessis, 3 November (16:36): MP3

Complete Recording (featuring Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Louis Cabri) (1:24:06): MP3

MLA Offsite Series Reading at the Four Seasons Hotel, Washington D.C., December 27, 1996

Bad History 9 (3:18): MP3

Wednesdays at 4Plus, University of Buffalo, November 6, 1996

Complete Reading (39:04): MP3

From the Live at the Ear CD, 1994

From Under Erasure, recorded January 2, 1993 (5:45): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, January 2, 1993

from Under Erasure (6:15): MP3

from Bad History:

Epigraph (0:53): MP3
Prologue: The 1980s (3:01): MP3
Number One (6:09): MP3
Number Two (4:05): MP3
Number Three (1:12): MP3
Number Ten (6:38): MP3

"I dreamed of a group of sociable foxes in the basement" (9:10): MP3

Complete Reading (38:41): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, November 12, 1983

Complete Reading (48:50): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 8, 1988

Complete reading (44:55): MP3

Reading in Berkeley, CA, January 30, 1981

Relays (8:04): MP3
Non-Events (15:50): MP3
Complete Thought (7:00): MP3
Marsden Hartley (9:37): MP3

(note: recording cuts off abruptly)

Lecture: "The Politics of Style," February 9, 1981

Complete Lecture (cuts off at end) (45:29) MP3

Lecture: "Speech vs Writing," February 23, 1981

part one (47:09): MP3
part two (48:23): MP3
part three (36:46): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, November 7, 1981

Complete Thought (8:24): MP3
Marsden Hartley (14:48): MP3
Artifacts (18:53): MP3
Relays (5:41): MP3

Complete Reading (47:49): MP3

Reading at the Grand Piano, San Francisco, February 20, 1979

Radio [excerpt] (0:27): MP3
Non-Events [excerpt] (1:57): MP3
Protection [I] (1:53): MP3
Plasma (8:19): MP3
Silence [excerpt] (0:24): MP3
Non-Events [excerpt] (1:57): MP3
Protection [II] (2:27): MP3
Paralleles (7:29): MP3
I resent passing through these well lit sentences (0:26): MP3
Non-Events [excerpt] (1:55): MP3
Radio [excerpt] (1:01): MP3
Protection [III] (1:43): MP3
X (3:33): MP3
Mode Z (0:41): MP3
Protection [IV] (1:33): MP3
Non-Events [excerpt] (1:54): MP3
Odd (0:29): MP3
Silence [excerpt] (0:44): MP3
Non-Events [excerpt] (2:01): MP3
Protection [V] (1:27): MP3
Radio [excerpt] (0:27): MP3

Complete Reading (43:31): MP3

(the four recordings above courtesy of Ron Silliman)

Talk on The Russian Formalists, Given at 578 Folsom, March 18, 1979

First Part (48:12): MP3
Second Part (48:09): MP3
Third Part (48:25): MP3
Fourth Part (37:49): MP3

(Recording Courtesy of Bob Perelman)

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