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PoemTalk #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.
CUE Arts Foundation, January 18, 2008
Featuring Anne Tardos, Charles Bernstein, Drew Gardner,
Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and others.
Reading at the Conference on American Poetry of the 1940s, University of Maine, Orono, June 24 2004
courtesy of A.L. Nielsen's Heatstrings
- Introduction (5:09): MP3
- Jackson Mac Low on Ezra Pound (2:28): MP3
- HUNGER STrikE wh at doe S lifemean (6:55): MP3
- Hear I Here (1:08): MP3
- Memory (0:40): MP3
- Clear Reapers Pleasing (0:21): MP3
- Molly Go (0:36): MP3
- & The (0:36): MP3
- Clear Being (0:45): MP3
- Whenas My Love (1:23): MP3
- The Scene (2:41): MP3
- Barnes 1 (6:34): MP3
- Barnes 2 (4:38): MP3
- To Them knew louder locust (7:02): MP3
Complete Reading (41:56): MP3
Segue reading series at the Bowery
Poetry Club, New York, May 8, 2004
Complete Reading (32:35): MP3,
RealAudio
- Introduction (1:51): MP3
- It Will Glow Unseen Until It Doesn't (HSCH 1) (6:14): MP3
- Our Throng is Too Much Involved with Dazzle (HSCH 9L) (4:37): MP3
- Our Creativity-Memory Was Wrung, Was It? (HSCH 6) (3:27): MP3
- That Consummatory Process Had Already Been Published (HSCH 2) (11:33): MP3
- Feeling Down Clementi Felt Impost Upon From Every Direction (HSCH 10) (3:36): MP3
Reading as part of The Line Reading Series at the Drawing Center, NYC, June 26, 2001
- Introduction (2:11): MP3
- Jackson Mac Low discussing his writing methods (4:36): MP3
- Disappointing Not Sweet Redness (Stein 151) (5:02): MP3
- Something Upsetting (Stein 88) (8:58): MP3
- Is Adventure Feeling Being Connected with Others? (Stein 160) (3:16): MP3
- She Addressed Him Like Useless Mischief (Stein 56) (11:34): MP3
- Mercy No More (Stein 156) (2:37): MP3
- That Orange (Stein 159) (2:33): MP3
Complete Reading (40:59): MP3
Wednesday Night Series: Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos, St. Mark's Church, NY, March 14, 2001
Library of Congress recording (1:23:40): link
Recorded Live at Roulette, New York, 18 November 1999
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
Produced by Ernesto Livon-Grosman
- Introduction (0:57): MP3
- A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday (2:09): MP3
- discussing "A Poem for Armand Schwerner on his 65th Birthday" and nonintentional procedures (18:41): MP3
- Forites 1 (6:55): MP3
- discussing his "Forties" poems (3:09): MP3
- Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
- on repetition, meaning, and editing (4:33): MP3
- He Never Relaxed for a Moment (3:43): MP3
- on applying the diastic method to the Cantos (6:03): MP3
- Part 9 of Words nd Ends from Ez (2:57): MP3
Complete reading and discussion (51:51): MP3, Real Audio
"Words nd Ends" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 46.
The Jackson Mac Low 75th Birthday Festschrift, September 20, 1997
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Reading from from the "Forties" series
- Introduction to Forties (5:42): MP3
- Forties 9: Kalmon Dolgin Bluestone (4:51): MP3
- Forties 10: Solar Panel Menopause (4:25): MP3
- Forties 11: Transferal Cranberry Nicholas de Staël (5:49): MP3
- Forties 148: The Woman You Look At But Not Through (4:29): MP3
- Forties 149: Getting the Words on the Road (3:49): MP3
- Forties 150: Wind Up Living in Berlin (5:55): MP3
- Forties 151: Turning these Sifted Pages (4:44): MP3
- Forties 152: Digging Dimes as Crazy as Glass (3:50): MP3
- Forties 153: Not Kind Enough to Revise Human Instinct You Are Clean Cold Water (4:51): MP3
- Forties 154: Finding Your Own Name (4:35): MP3
- Blatancy (2:48): MP3
Complete Reading (56:03): MP3
Reading at Prospects Conference, Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ, May 23, 1996
Complete recording (16:15): MP3
- Introduction (1:41): MP3
- Forties 105: Linguistic Relatives (4:50): MP3
- Forties 64: Who Builds White Clock Billowing Walls (3:25): MP3
- Happy 60th Birthday to Sten Hanson (3:06): MP3
- Forties 85: Our Time Disposal Close (4:55): MP3
- Forties 104: Huddled Nature (4:35): MP3
- Forties 78: Lengthen Darken Nothing Any Jobs Left (3:40): MP3
- Forties 75: He Made Faces Razor Thin (4:20): MP3
- Forties 76: Back of the Zóhar-Equivalence (5:21): MP3
Complete Reading (37:15): MP3
- Forties 73: The Beautiful Danferous Wednesday Fought and Fabled (4:31): MP3
- Forties 68: Her Roastin' Identity Packed With Anarchronisms (3:18): MP3
- Forties 64: Who Builds White Clock Billowing Walls (3:23): MP3
- Forties 71: Allergic Mary Drowning Hungary (4:35): MP3
- Forties 67: Reduction of the Ingenue-Scarers (3:28): MP3
- Forties 70: Tree House City (4:28): MP3
- Forties 65: Sandy Furrows Silvered (3:32): MP3
- Forties 63: Clean-Spitting Muddy Yellow Moods (3:18): MP3
- Complete recording (31:35): MP3
- I Strife (1:31): MP3
- Giant Otters (1:08): MP3
- Giant Philosophical Otters (3:30): MP3
- More Giant Philosophical Otters (3:34): MP3
- Forties 16 (5:18): MP3
- Accusation Fallacia, for Annie (6:46): MP3
- A Breather, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:21): MP3
- Intention Disappears, a poem for John Cage's 79th birthday (1:47): MP3
- Rebus Effort Remove Government, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (2:32): MP3
- They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (3:03): MP3
- Cater Loaf (6:12): MP3
- This Occasion, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:34): MP3
- He Never Relaxed for a Moment, a poem for John Cage after his 79th birthday (1:12): MP3
- Desecrated Anchorite Lofty (3:39): MP3
Complete Reading (44:53): MP3
Poetry Project, 1994: Forties 98-101: video
- Introduction (2:18): MP3
- From "Armand's Storehouse 3" (2:17): MP3
- On methods (13:27): MP3
- On influence (5:19): MP3
- Forties (6:34): MP3
- Rebus Effort Remove Government (5:40): MP3
- On changes (4:23): MP3
- He Never Relaxe99:d for a Moment (3:43): MP3
- Canto Z Part (9:45): MP3
- Complete Reading (53:51): MP3
Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, February 1, 1992
- Introduction (1:08): MP3
- Forties 8 (5:20): MP3
- Forties 19 (10:21): MP3
- Forties 17 (4:52): MP3
- Forties 16 (5:13): MP3
- A Lagoon Elucidation (7:48): MP3
- Hop Tempestuous (a poem for Mei-mei Berssenbrugge) (2:08): MP3
- Taking the Doctor's Suggestion (2:19): MP3
- Duchamp (3:03): MP3
- Rebus Effort Remove Government (2:35): MP3
- They Didn't Whir He Gave No Advice (2:49): MP3
Complete Reading (48:01): MP3 (There is a five-second pause around 45:00 when the tape was turned over.)
- 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
- Discussion of opening section of Stein's "Objects" (2:42): MP3
- Discussing function of prefaces and introductions to poems (4:25): MP3
- Discussing use of notation in creating a poetic collage (3:23): MP3
- 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
- Role of “chance generation” (1:32): MP3
- Influence of John Cage’s chance-composed music and Buddhism (5:50): MP3
- Influence of Freud and psychoanalysis (2:11): MP3
- Serialism and 12-tone music (6:29): MP3
- Discussion of Mac Low’s methodologies (6:07): MP3
- Discussion of entropy (1:26): MP3
- Meaning in language and sound (3:24): MP3
- Cultural construct of language (1:30): MP3
- Discussion of voice (3:05): MP3
- Segmentation of poetry by sound (6:33): MP3
Complete reading (1:02:50): MP3
- Free Gatha 1, performed with Bernstein and Piombino (5:36): MP3
- Twenties, 1-15 (22:34): MP3
Songs and Simultaneities, Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos, c. 1985
Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.
- Vocabulary for Anne Tardos, 1980 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice & recorder (8:14) (Mac Low)
- Syllables, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (3:28) (Tardos)
- Octet for a Sunset, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (6:04) (Tardos)
- Heterophony, 1985 - from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1981 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (7:00) (Mac Low)
- Aum Gatha, 1982 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (Mac Low)
- Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer, 1976 - tape played with Aum Gatha (6:45) (Tardos)
- Tara Gatha, 1975 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice and recorder (Mac Low)
- Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1984 - Tardos, Mac Low, voices (10:52) (Mac Low)
- Figure and Escape, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (7:58) (Tardos)
Featuring Anne Tardos.
Q&A, Residency at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, c. 1984
First voice after Mac Low is Barrett Watten. Tom Mandel can also be heard.
- On philosophy of humanism (2:40): MP3
- On human value (8:43): MP3
- On identification (9:15): MP3
- On self-perception (6:40): MP3
- On control (3:04): MP3
- On language (2:52): MP3
- On metonymy and metaphor (3:36): MP3
- On discussion (2:53): MP3
- On context (1:39): MP3
- On correctness (5:59): MP3
- On experimentalism (1:42): MP3
- On writing well (1:08): MP3
- On stability (4:07): MP3
- On politics (4:50): MP3
- On choice (8:08): MP3
- On political poetry (5:40): MP3
- On connection (6:23): MP3
- On consciousness (5:13): MP3
- On America (5:13): MP3
- On roundtable (1:29): MP3
"Politics and Language"
Segue Series Reaing at the Ear Inn, New York, March 3, 1984
Complete reading (46:32): MP3
Segue Series Reading at The Ear Inn, New York, January 30, 1982
- Introduction by Alan Davies (0:49): MP3
- Hereford Bosons (7:48): MP3
- Wall Rev (0:36): MP3
- Inkling Allegretti (8:38): MP3
- Baltimore Porches (8:31): MP3
- Regular Clerestories (8:28): MP3
- Megrose Trinity Sixfold (1:10): MP3
- Filial Simples (1:27): MP3
- White Tara (1:03): MP3
- Sermon Quail (1:38): MP3
- Anxious Calm (1:06): MP3
- Ten Weeks (2:22): MP3
- A Lack of Balance But Not Fatal (2:31) (cuts off midway in poem): MP3
Complete Reading (46:34): MP3
Reading with Bob Cobbing and Tom Leonard at the Sound & Syntax International Festival of Sound Poetry, 1978
Watch on Media.sas
- Jackson Mac Low (03:51): MP3
Performance recorded at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD, December 2, 1978
Anthologized in E. no 3, 2020
The First Sharon Belle Matla Vocabulary Gatha (10:53): MP3
- 1st Milarepa Gatha (5:58): MP3
- This Is the Beginning of Something New (9:39): MP3
- Larry Rosing Piece for typewriter, video and voice (3:13): MP3
- 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
- On Strangeness (17:18): MP3
- Asymmetry 1 (0:24): MP3
- Asymmetry 4 (2:33): MP3
- Asymmetry 12 (0:56): MP3
Complete Reading (49:00): MP3 (There is a five-second pause around 45:00 when the tape was turned over.)
Appearing on Public Access Poetry with Peter Orlovsky, Steven Hall, Arthur Russell and Sharon Matlin, January 26, 1978
Complete video (59:31): MOV
Video excerpt from above: Jackson Mac Low reads "Phone"
Recording from the Naropa Institute Archives, August 1975
- Side A (44:11): MP3
- Side B (17:18): MP3
Side A includes "The Mantra of Chain Resese", "A Vocabulary for PI Moore", "36th Light Poem", "For and From John Cage", "Donna Rita Joseph Conrad", and "42nd Light Poem" for Paul Goodman. Side B includes "Gloria", "Print Out from the 14 PDP3 Poem", and "Green Tara Mantra".
Reading from the Naropa Institute, August 11, 1975
Complete Recording (46:49): MP3
- The Peter Innisfree Moore Poems (18:27): MP3
- 36th Light Poem (4:02): MP3
- Phoeneme Dance for John Cage (5:11): MP3
- Joseph Conrad Poem (5:45): MP3
- 42nd Light Poem (6:40): MP3
- Du-fie (3:31): MP3
Recording Courtesy of the Naropa Institute
Reading of "Threnody for Sylvia Plath" and "Lucy Church Amiably", May 17, 1975
Recorded on audiocassette. Featured in the Joris and Peyrafitte tape collection.
- Threnody for Sylvia Plath (34:57): MP3
- Lucy Church Amiably (20:05): MP3
The Eight-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization Of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gathas", published by S-Press as tape #33
8-Voice Stereo Canon (The 4 over-laid performances begin
on channel one about 20 seconds after they begin on channel two:
a "4-against-4" canon.) "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" was
written (drawn) 8/25/73 & after. Realized and recorded at NYU Composers' Workshop
N.Y. on November 25, 1973. Note: "The Black Tarantula" is one of Kathy
Acker's pseudonyms. Originally published as a cassette by
S Press Tonbandverlag, Dusseldorf/Munchen, West Germany, 1975.
- Complete recording (32:42): MP3
Reading on the Gathas, New York City, 1970s
- Discussion of the Gathas (18:23): MP3
- Call Me Ishmael (0:52): MP3
- Pattern Recognition by Machine (3:22): MP3
- excerpt from The 8-Voice Stereo-Canon Realization of "The Black Tarantula Crossword Gatha" (10:49): MP3
- Complete Recording (33:39): MP3
Reading in New York, February 25, 1964
Complete recording (39:14): MP3
Includes voice of Paul Blackburn and Robert Kelly reading “First Biblical Poem” (1955); and ends with Mac Low reading “Presidents” poems and “Alarm Clock".
Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, Petr Kotik, Joseph Kubera, and Chris Nappi
perform Emmett Williams's Cellar Song for Five Voices
This piece was written in 1960. The recording here was made of a performance
in 1990, presented by the S.E.M. Ensemble, recorded by Mikhail Liberman at Paula
Cooper Gallery, 2/6/1990.
MP3
(12:22)
Also on PennSound:
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Various poets read from Counterpath's publication of Forties
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.
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