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South(West) Ohio Poets Summer Gathering at Chase Public, Cincinnati, June 20, 2015

  • Complete set (7:00): MP3

EPC@20 Celebration, September 11-12, 2014

July 31, 2013 Reading

At epoetry 2013, London, June 2013

Reading Jackson Mac Low's "Forties 19," AWP Conference, Boston, March 8, 2013

(with Charles Bernstein)

complete reading (6:47): MP3
& video

With Steve McCaffery, performing Panel 3 of Carnival at Birkbeck, June 6, 2012

Touching Words, a video-essay by Talan Memmott and David Prater, May 2012

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  • cris cheek, Maria Engberg, Jörg Piringer, and Christine Wilks discuss tactile media, intentionality, messy screens, and electronic literary works fading into the past. The video-essay was shot at the ELMCIP Digital Textuality with/in Performance Seminar held in Bristol UK. May 2012.

Cy Press Reading Series, Thundersky, Cincinnati, OH, November 21, 2011

  • Complete reading (37:36): MP3

Polycovalia at Birkbeck, June 20, 2011

  • Part 1 Talk Section 1 Talk (45:35):
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  • cris cheek, ‘Before I am Anything Else: provisional transatlantic communities in polyvocal poetic performance’.

  • Part 1 Talk Section 2 Discussion
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  • Discussion following cris cheek's talk ‘Before I am Anything Else: provisional transatlantic communities in polyvocal poetic performance’.

  • Part 2: FRIENDLY AMMENDMENTS Performances
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  • Lawrence Upton, Chris Goode, cris cheek, Holly Pester & others revisit work by Sumner, bpnichol, Basinski, Cobbing, MacLow & other scores, poems and possibilities

Reading at Alan Golding's House, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2010

Complete reading (4:03): MP3

from "Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud": A Celebration of Bob Cobbing at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007

  • Complete performance (30:55): MP3
  • Discussion of Bob Cobbing and his work (12:00): MP3

Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, each line read by a different voice

Recorded at Coleridge Community College, Cambridge, England, January 2005 (33:04): MP3
Voiced by the entire pupil and staff body of the school. By TNWK (Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek) with soundscore by Simon Keep and cris cheek using recordings made in the school building. More information here. here

Appearing on Radio Radio, New York, 2003

  • Program 4 (45:00): MP3
  • Program 10, with Sianed Jones (45:00): MP3

Performance by Cris Cheek, followed by music session, from the Eric Mottram Collection, July 27, 1996

  1. Part 1 (41:39): MP3
  2. Part 2 (45:43): MP3

Reading at Sub Voicive, The Three Cups, London, from the Eric Mottram Collection, October 25, 1994

Complete recording (44:35): MP3

Reading at Sub Voicive, London, from the Eric Mottram Collection, January 25, 1991

Complete recording (38:41): MP3

Reading at Sub Voicive, London, from the Eric Mottram Collection, December 16, 1988

  1. Part 1 (35:24): MP3
  2. Part 2 (47:23): MP3

Reading at ALP (Association of Little Presses) 15th Anniversary celebration at London Musicians Collective, London, from the Eric Mottram Collection, July 24, 1981

Complete recording (30:56): MP3

Performance at The Rainbow Café, from the Eric Mottram Collection, August 8, 1980

  1. Part 1 (43:38): MP3
  2. Part 2 (46:09): MP3

Reading at King's Poetry Series, from the Eric Mottram Collection, November 13, 1979

Complete recording (36:44):

"The Other Side of Steve Benson" (b/w "Steve Benson on His Own" by Steve Benson), 1979 - 1980

Published by Widemouth Tapes (#8606)

The Other Side of Steve Benson (46:20): MP3

Home Reading, January 25, 1977

  • Side A (30:39): MP3
  • Side B (20:45): MP3
  • Recordings courtesy of Paul Buck

Performing with Lawrence Upton as Irrepressible Bastards, published in E no. 3, 1970s

Untitled (8:03): MP3

Other Recordings

  • Skin Upon Skin - Introduction (excerpt) (0:21): MP3
  • Skin Upon Skin 1 (excerpt) (1:36): MP3
  • Rooftop Fog (excerpt) (1:00): MP3

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2015 cris cheek. Used with permission of cris cheek. Distributed by PennSound.