Paul Buck's Pressed Curtains Tape Project

Recordings courtesy of Paul Buck.

Read Buck's liner notes to The Test Centre and Blank Editions' 2015 box set of these cassettes

Kathy Acker

Reading The Persian Poems(Censored) on KPFA-FM, c.1980

• Complete Recording (19:16): MP3

Paul Buck

Reading xxxx7 at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), December 1, 1977

• Recording (39:02): MP3

cris cheek

Home Reading, January 25, 1977

• Side A (30:39): MP3
• Side B (20:45): MP3

Allen Fisher

Reading The Apocalyptic Sonnets, Home Recording, February 9, 1977

• Side A (29:48): MP3
• Side B (21:50): MP3

Ulli McCarthy (then known as Ulli Freer)

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), July 27, 1977

• Complete Recording (44:06): MP3

Bill Griffiths

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), July 23, 1978

• Complete Recording (47:02)MP3

Pierre Joris

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), July 23, 1978

• Complete recording (40:43): MP3

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), August 3, 1977

• Complete Recording (45:48): MP3



Robert Kelly

Reading Masada & from the Persephone Series, Bard College, October 26, 1976

• Complete Recording (14:08): MP3



Eric Mottram

Reading at Foster Clough, Hebden Bridge (UK), September 19, 1976

• Side A (39:50): MP3
• Side B (42:10): MP3



Jean-Luc Parant

Reading, accompanied on the organ by Titi Parant, Date Unknown, Location Unknown

• Complete Recording (20:23) MP3




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