Jackson Mac Low

LINEbreak Radio Recording Session, New York, 1995

1. Discussion of the Gathas (18:23): MP3
2. Call Me Ishmael (0:52): MP3
3. Pattern Recognition by Machine (3:22): MP3
4. excerpt from The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" (10:49): MP3

• Complete Recording (33:39): MP3

The 8-Voice "Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" (32:14): MP3

Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Peter Orlovsky, Steven Hall, Arthur Russell and Sharon Matlin, January 26, 1978

Video excerpt from above: Jackson Mac Low reads "Phone"

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, October 1978

1. 1st Milarepa Gatha (5:58): MP3
2. This Is the Beginning of Something New (9:39): MP3
3. Larry Rosing Piece for typewriter, video and voice (3:13): MP3
4. Reading "Objects" from Tender Buttons (6:52): MP3
   prefatory comments (1:19): MP3
   reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass (Gertrude Stein) (0:49): MP3
   Reading a Selection from Tender Buttons (Language No. 6) (4:40): MP3
5. On Strangeness (17:18): MP3
6. Asymmetry 1 (0:24): MP3
7. Asymmetry 4 (2:33): MP3
8. Asymmetry 12 (0:56): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, January 30, 1982

1. Introduction (0:49): MP3
2. Hereford Bosons (7:48): MP3
3. Wall Rev (0:36): MP3
4. Inkling Allegretti (8:38): MP3
5. Baltimore Porches (8:31): MP3
6. Regular Clerestories (8:28): MP3
7. Megrose Trinity Sixfold (1:10): MP3
8. Filial Simples (1:27): MP3
9. White Tara (1:03): MP3
10. Sermon Quail (1:38): MP3
11. Anxious Calm (1:06): MP3
12. Ten Weeks (2:22): MP3
13. A Lack of Balance But Not Fatal (2:31): MP3

Segue Series Reaing at the Ear Inn, New York, March 3, 1984

Charles Bernstein poetics seminar, Wednesday @ Four Plus, University of Buffalo, October 11, 1990

1. Reading a selection from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and his L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E #6 essay on the book (7:02): MP3
   reading "A Carafe, That Is A Blind Glass" (Gertrude Stein) (1:58): MP3
   Reading A Selection from Tender Buttons (Language No. 6) (4:59): MP3
2. Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42): MP3
3. Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25): MP3
4. Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23): MP3
5. Discussing close reading of MacLow’s poetry vs. Gertrude Stein’s poetry (6:41): MP3
   Stein as perceiver-centered (1:50): MP3
   close connection between Stein's writing and the kind Mac Low and many other Language writers do (0:34): MP3
   CB on Mac Low's procedure-based work as it relates to Stein's writing (1:06): MP3
   rejecting the notion of a unitary Stein, and discussing the way she composed and her manuscripts (3:10): MP3
6. Role of “chance generation” (1:32): MP3
7. Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50): MP3
8. Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11): MP3
9. Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29): MP3
10. Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07): MP3
11. Discussion of entropy (1:26): MP3
12. Meaning in language and sound (3:24): MP3
13. Cultural construct of language (1:30): MP3
14. Discussion of voice (3:05): MP3
15. Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33): MP3

complete reading (1:02:50): MP3

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, February 1, 1992

1. Introduction (1:08): MP3
2. Forties 8 (5:20): MP3
3. Forties 19 (10:21): MP3
4. Forties 17 (4:52): MP3
5. Forties 16 (5:13): MP3
6. A Lagoon Elucidation (7:48): MP3
7. Hop Tempestuous (a poem for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge) (2:08): MP3
8. Taking the Doctor's Suggestion (2:19): MP3
9. Duchamp (3:03): MP3
10. Rebus Effort Remove Government (2:35): MP3
11. They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice (2:49): MP3

The Radio Reading Project Session at New York University, 1992

• Complete Reading (53:51): MP3

Little Magazine Session, New York, April 2, 1995 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

1. I Strife (1:31): MP3
2. Giant Otters (1:08): MP3
3. Giant Philosophical Otters (3:30): MP3
4. More Giant Philosophical Otters (3:34): MP3
5. Forties 16 (5:18): MP3
6. Accusation Fallacia, for Annie (6:46): MP3
7. A Breather, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:21): MP3
8. Intention Disappears, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (1:47): MP3
9. Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
10. They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (3:03): MP3
11. Cater Loaf (6:12): MP3
12. This Occasion, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:34): MP3
13. He Never Relaxed for a Moment, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:12): MP3
14. Desecrated Anchorite Lofty (3:39): MP3

Complete Reading (44:53): MP3

Segue Series reading at The Ear Inn, New York, May 20, 1995

• complete recording (31:35): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, October 15, 1995

1. Introduction (1:41): MP3
2. Forties 105: Linguistic Relatives (4:50): MP3
3. Forties 64: Who Builds White Clock Billowing Walls (3:25): MP3
4. Happy 60th Birthday to Sten Hanson (3:06): MP3
5. Forties 85: Our Time Disposal Close (4:55): MP3
6. Forties 104: Huddled Nature (4:35): MP3
7. Forties 78: Lengthen Darken Nothing Any Jobs Left (3:40): MP3
8. Forties 75: He Made Faces Razor Thin (4:20): MP3
9. Forties 76: Back of the Zóhar-Equivalence (5:21): MP3
Complete Reading (37:15): MP3


Open Secrets (1993)




Reading at the University at Buffalo, 1997

reading from from the "Forties" series

Complete Reading (56:03): real audio only

Appearing on PhillyTalks Episode 2 with Andrew Levy, November 5, 1997

Analysis of Levy's Struggle Against Misery and Others (12:30): MP3

"Sprit -- A Word I Never Use": A Response to Jackson Mac Low and Andrew Levy by Alan Filreis

The Radio Reading Project Session, 1998

Produced by Ernesto Livon-Grosman
1. Introduction (0:57): MP3
2. A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday (2:09): MP3
3. discussing "A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday" and nonintentional procedures (18:41): MP3
4. Forites 1 (6:55): MP3
5. discussing his "Forties" poems (3:09): MP3
6. Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
7. on repetition, meaning, and editing (4:33): MP3
8. He Never Relaxed for a Moment (3:43): MP3
9. on applying the diastic method to the Cantos (6:03): MP3
10. Part 9 of Words nd Ends from Ez (2:57): MP3
Complete reading and discussion (51:51): MP3, Real Audio

Music by Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos

Recorded Live at Roulette, New York, 18 November 1999



Reading as part of The Line Reading Series at the Drawing Center, NYC, June 26, 2001


1. Introduction (2:11): MP3
2. Jackson Mac Low discussing his writing methods (4:36): MP3
3. Disappointing Not Sweet Redness (Stein 151) (5:02): MP3
4. Something Upsetting (Stein 88) (8:58): MP3
5. Is Adventure Feeling Being Connected with Others? (Stein 160) (3:16): MP3
6. She Addressed Him Like Useless Mischief (Stein 56) (11:34): MP3
7. Mercy No More (Stein 156) (2:37): MP3
8. That Orange (Stein 159) (2:33): MP3
Complete Reading (40:59): MP3


Segue reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, May 8, 2004

Complete Reading (32:35): MP3, RealAudio

1. Introduction (1:51): MP3
2. It Will Glow Unseen Until It Doesn't (HSCH 1) (6:14): MP3
3. Our Throng is Too Much Involved with Dazzle (HSCH 9L) (4:37): MP3
4. Our Creativity-Memory Was Wrung, Was It? (HSCH 6) (3:27): MP3
   
5. That Consummatory Process Had Already Been Published (HSCH 2) (11:33): MP3
6. Feeling Down Clementi Felt Impost Upon From Every Direction (HSCH 10) (3:36): MP3

Reading at the Conference on American Poetry of the 1940s, University of Maine, Orono, June 24 2004

courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Heatstrings

1. Introduction (5:09): MP3
2. Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound (2:28): MP3
3. HUNGER STrikE wh at doe S lifemean (6:55): MP3
4. Hear I Here (1:08): MP3
5. Memory (0:40): MP3
6. Clear Reapers Pleasing (0:21): MP3
7. Molly Go (0:36): MP3
8. & The (0:36): MP3
9. Clear Being (0:45): MP3
10. Whenas My Love (1:23): MP3
11. The Scene (2:41): MP3
12. Barnes 1 (6:34): MP3
13. Barnes 2 (4:38): MP3
14. To Them knew louder locust (7:02): MP3

Complete Reading (41:56): MP3


CD from


Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955–2002

Granary Books, 2006




A Celebration of Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (edited by Anne Tardos), CUE Arts Foundation, January 18, 2008

Featuring Anne Tardos, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joan Retallack, Drew Gardner, and others.


PoemTalk Podcast #46, discussing Jackson Mac Low's "Words nd Ends from Ez," October 13, 2011

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

Also on PennSound:

Anne Tardos's Among Men, featuring Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low on PennSound Daily

• November 3, 2008: "A Pair of New Recordings from Jackson Mac Low"
• February 1, 2007: "A Celebration of Jackson Mac Low's Thing of Beauty"

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the estate of the author. © 2006, 2007 Estate of Jackson Mac Low. Used with permission of Anne Tardos. Distributed by PennSound.