David Abel

PoemTalk #78, Discussing Muriel Rukeyser's "Ballad of Orange and Grape", feat. Amy King, David Abel, and Mytili Jagannathan

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes at Jacket2.

PennSound #40: Interview with Al Filreis

Complete recording (1:23:39): MP3

Reading of Float for PennSound on March 19, 2014

Float

• Dedication (0:19): MP3
• Conduction (25:40): MP3
• Orbis Pictus (unsegmented) (54:29): MP3
• Epigraph (0:49): MP3
• Land Sought, Found, Claimed (unsegmented) (09:37): MP3
• Epigraph (0:39): MP3
• Introduction (02:03): MP3
• "Acknowledged as taking" (0:42): MP3
• "In the flowery language" (01:11): MP3
• "Well it, at least this, doesn't" (01:02): MP3
• "Their name was derived" (01:10): MP3
• "The prime source" (0:52): MP3
• "The name of Alexander" (01:09): MP3
• "Washed ashore from the sea" (0:45): MP3
• Ambulatory Windows (unsegmented) (03:03): MP3
• Epigraph (0:40): MP3
• Introduction (01:52): MP3
• "gluttons and stableboys" (0:34): MP3
• Lebanon (unsegmented) (08:25): MP3
• Epigraph (0:59): MP3
• Introduction (02:14): MP3
• Part 1 (01:44): MP3
• Part 2 (0:24): MP3
• Part 3 (0:24): MP3
• Part 4 (0:13): MP3
• Part 5 (01:21): MP3
• Part 6 (0:36): MP3
• Part 7 (0:32): MP3
• Time Words (20:06): MP3
• NEG (03:27): MP3
• First to Last (08:53): MP3
• Times of Day (33:51): MP3

Complete recording (01:54:26): MP3

From textsound issue #16, May 2013

David Abel with Lisa Radon, Nico Vassilakis, and James Yeary - "Reading Hazard" (45:00): MP3

"Reading Hazard" documents a "linguistic sculpture" devised by David Abel in response to Avantika Bawa's installation "At Owners Risk," on view at Suyama Space, Seattle, in June of 2012. The performance took the form of a simultaneous reading by four poets spatially distributed within the installation, and was captured by composer and sound artist Steve Peters, who in his peripatetic recording acted as a fifth performer and the agent of this particular realization.

Reading with Jeffrey Lee, Acequia Booksellers, Albuquerque, NM, June 3, 2007

Published in the VOX Audio collection.

1. Intro (1:04): MP3
2. Eclipse (5:01): MP3
3. Standards (3:51): MP3
4. Ghosts (5:52): MP3
5. Twenty (2:45): MP3
6. Excerpts from Sweep (14:53): MP3

Reading with William Fox for Subtext Reading Series, Richard Hugo House, November 3, 2004

1. From “Cut” (4:35): MP3
2. Neg (4:06): MP3
3. Portland Hills and Japanese Garden (1:03): MP3
4. Mr. Hood (0:52): MP3
5. Cold Quatrains (1:20): MP3
6. Sentido (2:01): MP3
7. For Buzz Spector (1:05): MP3
8. James Hellman text (5:09): MP3
9. Nectar (after Fred Miller) (1:32): MP3
10. Lebanon (6:43): MP3
11. Threnos (4:23): MP3

• David Abel (33:31): MP3
• William Fox (17:51): MP3

Reading with Craig Van Riper for Subtext Reading Series, Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA, February 7, 2001

• David Abel (48:01): MP3
• Craig Van Riper (18:51): MP3

© 2014 David Abel. Recordings available for non-commercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. Distributed with permission by PennSound.