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Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey
Photo: © Chris Funkhouser/EPC

Appearing on Close Listening with Charles Bernstein, Kelly Writers House, February 1, 2011

Program One: Reading
  1. introduction (2:13): MP3

    2. from Nod House

  2. Sound and Subsequence (5:30): MP3
  3. Day after Day of the Dead (3:59): MP3
  4. Lullaby in Lagos (5:15): MP3
  5. Ghost of a Trance (4:38): MP3

    6. from a new untitled manuscript

  6. A Night in Jaipur (3:41): MP3
  7. Stick City Bjajan (2:23): MP3
  • complete reading (27:41): MP3

Program Two: Conversation
  • complete conversation (29:39): MP3

St. Mark's Talks, April 24, 1985

"Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol"

  • talk by Nathaniel Mackey (1:18:24): MP3
  • discussion (45:28): MP3

Reading at San Francisco State University 1987

  • Mackey Reads from Dear Angel of Dust (27:02): MP3 , RealAudio

Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, March 24, 1989

  1. epigraphs from "Outlantish" (2:03): MP3
  2. Melin (1:31): MP3
  3. Irritable Mystic (2:01): MP3
  4. Knotted Highness (3:05): MP3
  5. Degree Four (3:11): MP3
  6. Sweet Mystic Beast (3:42): MP3
  7. Amma Seru's Hammer's Heated Fall (4:50): MP3
  8. Alphabet of Ahtt (3:32): MP3
  9. Our Island (4:50): MP3
  10. Djbot Baghostus's Run (18:29): MP3
Complete Reading (47:37): MP3

Reading at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, June 24, 1991

courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Incognito Lounge

  • complete reading (49:37): MP3

Reading at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 1991

  1. introductin (1:28): MP3
  2. Tonu Soy (6:34) MP3
  3. Aspect Surmise (6:55): MP3
  4. Slipped Quadrant (2:59): MP3
  5. Collateral Death (2:18): MP3

    6. complete reading (18:49): MP3, RealAudio

Interview with A.L. Nielsen, Santa Cruz, July 18, 1991

courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Incognito Lounge

  • complete interview (1:00:25): MP3

Reading at Zar, Santa Cruz, April 13 1992 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

complete reading (36:31): MP3

Appearing at the New Coast Festival, New Freedoms, April 9, 1993

  • Complete Recording (1:57:29): MP3

Writers Institute Reading, Albany, April 7 1994 recorded by Chris Funkhouser

complete reading (57:54): MP3

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,November 13, 1997

  1. Introduction by Mike McGee (1:57): MP3
  2. Introduction by Nathaniel Mackey (6:34): Mp3
  3. Song of the Andoumboulou: 18 (5:28): MP3
  4. Song of the Andoumboulou: 19 (3:11): MP3
  5. Song of the Andoumboulou: 20 (6:18): MP3
  6. Song of the Andoumboulou: 25 (5:04): MP3
  7. Song of the Andoumboulou: 28 (4:29): MP3
  8. Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 (3:50): MP3
  9. Song of the Andoumboulou: 33 (8:19): MP3
  10. Song of the Andoumboulou: 33 and a Half (1:23): MP3

Reading at Cornell University, November 29, 2001

  • Introduction by Barry Maxwell (): MP3
  • Complete Reading (1:06:03): MP3 , RealAudio

    • Conversations with Poets, MLA, New York. December 28, 2002

    from Kenning, Vol. 4 No. 3 Autumn/Winter 2002-2003, Issue #12

    Nathaniel Mackey recorded by Chris Funkhouser, 7 April 1994, Albany, New York (University at Albany). This letter appears in ATET A.D. (San Francisco: City Lights, 2001).

    from from ATET A.D. (2:50): MP3

    Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, February 12, 2003

    complete reading (57:19): MP3

    Reading at Mills College, September 9, 2003

    1. Introduction to Four for Glenn (1:31): MP3
    2. Four for Glenn II (Go Left Out of Shantiville) (1:59): MP3
    3. Introduction to Four for Glenn IV (1:24): MP3
    4. Four for Glenn IV (Glenn on Monk's Mountain) (2:15): MP3
    5. Introduction to On Antiphon Island (1:00) MP3
    6. On Antiphon Island (2:05): MP3
    7. Introduction to Sound and Semblance (2:58): MP3
    8. Sound and Semblance (2:36): MP3
    9. Sound and Sentience (3:00): MP3

    Cork Poetry Festival, Summer 2004, film by Adam Wyeth with Nathaniel Mackey, Randolph Healey, and Charles Bernstein.

    Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #113: Splay Anthem, October 1, 2006

    • complete recording (56:03): MP3

    Reading at the Kelly Writers House, February 1, 2011

    • complete reading (49:15): MP3

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    See Also: Mackey at University of Chicago (Poem Present)

    Of Special Interest:
    Chant des Andoumboulou"("Song of the Andoumboulou")
    Dogon Song, from the album Le Rituel Funeraire (Songs Of The Living - The Funeral Rites) (5:29): MP3
    1956 Disques Ocora
    Liner notes by Francois Di Dio:

    "The Song of the Andoumboulou is addressed to the spirits. For this reason the initiates, crouching in a circle, sing it in a whisper in the deserted village, and only the howling of the dogs and the wind disturb the silence of the night" -- Di Dio quoted by Mackey in Eroding Witness (p. 31) [Note: Mackey refers to an album titled Les Dogon where the same cut, titled, "Chant des Andoumboulou" appears.]

    Also of Interest:

    Nathaniel Mackey on WUSP's "Talk of the Bary" (March, 2007)
    includes excerpts from the Dogon chant, Don Cherry and Glenn Spearman

    Nathaniel Mackey on PennSound Daily

    These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. Close Listening programs © 2011 Charles Bernstein and Nathaniel Mackey. All other rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2011 Nathaniel Mackey. Used with permission of Nathaniel Mackey. Distributed by PennSound.