Reading of Kissass in Syracuse, NY, 1988 or 1989
Kissass (0:34): MP3
Kissass (0:34): WAV
Dominic DeJoseph, who provided us with this recording, adds this comment: "This is not a public reading. I was attending film school at Ithaca College and I drove up to Syracuse to see Ginsberg perform. I approached him afterwards and ask him to record this poem for me. He did so graciously, and asked only that I get it into the hands of an archive going forward. I recorded him so as to sample the recording for use in a quadrophonic soundscape piece I was creating for my Experimental Music class, which Ginsberg was aware of and supported. That experimental soundscape was created using an early Korg sampling keyboard, and I sampled each word of the poem and played it back polyphonically. I then recorded it to 1/2" tape which was re-edited by cutting and splicing the tape. That original tape has been lost, but I'm in the process of recreating it for my archives."
Reading at The Knitting Factory, NYC, December 4, 1988
As captured in the film Jack Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues",
produced by Vivien Bittencourt and Vincent Katz
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