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George Quasha


photo by Susan Quasha

All recordings by Chris Funkhouser unless otherwise noted.

Introduction by Chris Funkhouser: PDF

Reading the laryngeal uterus of the word, Barrytown, NY, June 17, 2024

complete recording (1:36:48): MP3

Reading strange beauty by stranger attraction, Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2024

Complete recording (1:41:35): MP3

Reading crossroads angelics, Barrytown, NY, December 30, 2023

Complete recording (1:32:59): MP3

Reading gnostalgia for the present, Barrytown, NY, November 4, 2023

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  • Complete recording (1:34:54): MP3
  • Reading mirroring by alterity, Barrytown, NY, September 29, 2023

    Complete recording (1:31:45): MP3

    Reading non binding horizon, Barrytown, NY, September 1, 2023

    Complete recording (1:34:09): MP3

    Reading waking from myself, Barrytown, NY, May 20, 2023

    Complete recording (1:29:35): MP3

    Reading flayed flaws & other finagled opacities, Barrytown, NY, May 5, 2023

    Complete recording (1:35:41): MP3

    Reading ripping scales from Waking from Myself, Barrytown, NY, March 18, 2023

    Complete recording (1:25:05): MP3

    Reading tuning by fire, Barrytown, NY, December 29, 2022

    Complete recording (1:29:44): MP3

    Reading shadowing ideas in the rearview mirror, Barrytown, NY, November 20, 2022

    Complete recording (1:27:38): MP3

    Reading at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY, September 3, 2022

    Introduction by Susan Wides.

    • Complete recording (0:26:04): MP3

    Reading eternal discomfort of the heavenly bent from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, July 13, 2022

    Complete recording (1:26:36): MP3

    Reading sound talk from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, May 21, 2022

    Complete recording (1:01:46): MP3

    Reading the eros of soft exterior shocks from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, March 19, 2022

    Complete recording (1:30:48): MP3

    Reading every sound its word from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, January 15, 2022

    Complete recording (1:11:53): MP3

    Reading with Billie Chernicoff for Lunar Chandelier Press, Virtual Program, October 3, 2021

    Recording courtesy of Kimberly Lyons; watch on YouTube: External Link

    Reading alternate lingualities from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, July 18, 2021

    Complete recording (1:25:23): MP3

    Reading Dowsing Axis, Barrytown, NY, December 28, 2019

    Reading Hearing Other, Barrytown, NY, July 30, 2019

    Reading from Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole, Barrytown, NY, November 17, 2018

    Complete reading (1:17:05): MP3

    1. Introduction (1:28): MP3
    2. i’m the architect of any space i pass through waking (4:27): MP3
    3. finding a world means liking it in here (3:02): MP3
    4. news from deep space non (2:46): MP3
    5. every sound is word (2:21): MP3
    6. appear without fear (2:10): MP3
    7. mirroring talks (2:36): MP3
    8. peripheral temporality vision (2:52): MP3
    9. gendered vexation zones (2:25): MP3
    10. the art is taking the bad out of the bad (2:36): MP3
    11. sounding lightning (2:49): MP3
    12. talking her into being (2:28): MP3
    13. body in hand (2:49): MP3
    14. the tauntra of holding your horses (2:05): MP3
    15. thinking’s from the word between (2:50): MP3
    16. it happens here first wherever we are (2:13): MP3
    17. no going back (2:37): MP3
    18. spatial destiny spread against open sky (2:54): MP3
    19. geno scenic aura (3:09): MP3
    20. pronominal slimming (2:43): MP3
    21. the shifting fate of leathers (2:36): MP3
    22. stripped principal variable (2:28): MP3
    23. it's not me anyway (2:44): MP3
    24. in one mouth and out the other (2:38): MP3
    25. neighborly lines (2:39): MP3
    26. a vortex passed already (2:39): MP3
    27. the tongue susceptible to divinization (2:28): MP3
    28. erogenous issues of illicit publicity (2:24): MP3
    29. hermanautical mappings (3:08): MP3

    Reading from The Ghost In Between, Barrytown, NY, November 8, 2018

    Complete reading (1:31:54): MP3

    1. Introduction to the Ghost In-between (3:48): MP3
    2. Tomorrow Never Comes (2:22): MP3
    3. Falling Toward Waiting to Know (2:29): MP3
    4. Accidental Accountants (2:38): MP3
    5. Waving Back (2:44): MP3
    6. Pronoun Phonics (2:28): MP3
    7. Figuring Being Blown (2:12): MP3
    8. Sun Sounds in the Tongue (2:33): MP3
    9. Inverse Linguality (2:20): MP3
    10. Catching My Instant (2:38): MP3
    11. Co-configurative Eternities (2:05): MP3
    12. Possibly Self Emanation (2:34): MP3
    13. Mobile Heart Mobile Tongue (2:51): MP3
    14. Nurture of Mind (2:41): MP3
    15. Complete-Timing (2:35): MP3
    16. Metaphoric Literalities (2:40): MP3
    17. Wake Walking (2:12): MP3
    18. Oh Mind Fear Flakes (2:39): MP3
    19. Ad Hoc Reality (2:29): MP3
    20. Momentary Make Up (2:16): MP3
    21. Saying it Tongue in Belly (2:56): MP3
    22. By No Means (2:23): MP3
    23. Synaxius Centers (2:25): MP3
    24. A Dove Dying Fall (2:31): MP3
    25. Two Channel Brain Frame (2:25): MP3
    26. An Other Floating World (2:48): MP3
    27. Free made Epigram (2:34): MP3
    28. Stressing Telling (2:41): MP3
    29. Truer Lucinations (2:32): MP3
    30. My True Self-The-Alien (2:57): MP3
    31. Metaphor-the-Night-Boat (2:47): MP3
    32. The-Glossology-of-Desire-Epigram (2:53): MP3
    33. The-Underline (2:52): MP3
    34. Silence-Ringing-in-Your-Ears_ (3:06): MP3
    35. Inter-dimensional Signaling (2:57): MP3

    Memorial reading for Gerrit Lansing in Kingston, NY, October 20, 2018

    Complete Reading (9:11): MP3

    Reading fromVerbal Paradise, Barrytown, NY, July 3, 2018

    Complete reading (1:22:40): MP3

    1. Introduction (2:18): MP3
    2. Thinking Map (1:32): MP3
    3. Surface Tension (1:53): MP3
    4. Tongue Within Bounds (1:23): MP3
    5. Minding Saying (1:52): MP3
    6. Skipping Truth Like a Stone on Water (2:04): MP3
    7. The Story Goes on Without Me (1:52): MP3
    8. Language Speaking For itself is the Only One Speaking for All (1:22): MP3
    9. Mind Mattering (2:13): MP3
    10. Showing Up Over (1:35): MP3
    11. Feeling True (1:30): MP3
    12. hyper-Intentional Say (1:25): MP3
    13. Spring Back (0:59): MP3
    14. Closed by Senses Five (2:03): MP3
    15. Elemental Atousal (1:42): MP3
    16. Word Contains the Flow Over (1:35): MP3
    17. Contrary Indications (2:06): MP3
    18. Things Said to Themselves (1:28): MP3
    19. Live All Life Times All (0:50): MP3
    20. Homing Motions (1:12): MP3
    21. A Breath a Work Apart (0:46): MP3
    22. Looking In From Around (1:02): MP3
    23. Living Orients (1:47): MP3
    24. Playing Out (0:57): MP3
    25. Passing Pure Lands Folded in Saying So (0:54): MP3
    26. Saying Safe and Lean Too (0:52): MP3
    27. The Point of Knowing (0:57): MP3
    28. The Rhymes That Times Itself (1:43): MP3
    29. Our Language Visions Truth be Told (1:18): MP3
    30. Low Grade Shock Stepping it Up (1:21): MP3
    31. A Hunt For Defining Gesture (1:41): MP3
    32. ”In these lengthen victuals his brain often reeled” -Hawthorne (2:02): MP3
    33. ”They reeled too and throw and staggered like a drunken man” Psalms 107:27 (2:09): MP3
    34. ”In Syphisis and huge round stone did reel” Spencer (2:27): MP3
    35. Whence What Come (1:02): MP3
    36. Stepped Up Self Removal (1:43): MP3
    37. Breaking Wave (1:19): MP3
    38. Toning my Own (1:26): MP3
    39. Watch Out Synaptic Dropdown into Undersense (2:05): MP3
    40. Thorough Through in Through (2:58): MP3
    41. Refusion (1:29): MP3
    42. Wedge (0:53): MP3
    43. Swallow (1:08): MP3
    44. Seminal Role (1:32): MP3
    45. Paridial Warbles (1:34): MP3
    46. Lingual Qualia (0:45): MP3
    47. Nights Ignition (0:49): MP3
    48. Open Flat and Circle Gaps (2:00): MP3
    49. In Seminal Sendings (0:56): MP3
    50. honor the Clamour (1:48): MP3
    51. Bis (0:34): MP3
    52. Speaking by Way of a Tail (0:52): MP3
    53. Flash Through (0:11): MP3
    54. Still Thinking (0:43): MP3
    55. Just Dowsing (0:47): MP3
    56. Refining Jest (1:29): MP3
    57. Doing With Mirrors (0:31): MP3
    58. Seeming Saying (1:16): MP3

    Reading from Glossodelia Attract (preverbs), October 26–November 21, 2017

    October 26, 2017

    • speaking animate (48:38): MP3
    • real time linguality (21:28): MP3

    November 2, 2017

    • reals within reels & other sides (51:41): MP3
    • feedback from the periphery (26:18): MP3

    November 11, 2017

    • sleight of scale 1-3 (9:12): MP3
    • sleight of scale 4-23 (47:48): MP3
    • ins and outs of neverbefore (46:58): MP3

    November 21, 2017

    • woman at the heart of it all (53:47): MP3

    Reading from The Daimon of the Moment (preverbs), November 21–December 14, 2017

    November 21, 2017

    • the daimon of the moment / eyes on the road (28:35): MP3

    November 29, 2017

    • an artifact of my work, speaking (45:47): MP3
    • going places places go (35:28): MP3

    December 5, 2017

    • things to keep between voices (54:13): MP3
    • life below the bottom line (58:31): MP3

    December 14, 2017

    • wormhole poetics (32:00): MP3

    Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind (preverbs), December 14, 2017

    Complete recording (37:18): MP3


    Things Done for Themselves (preverbs), December 19–22, 2017

    December 19, 2017

    • (Book I / Things Done for Themselves) things done for themselves / right sounds/ friends forever / tuning mind out / what it sounds like to be here (56:55): MP3
    • (Book I / Things Done for Themselves) poetic faith / words live beyond their saying (15:43): MP3
    • (Book II / Witnessing the Place Awake) mouth surfing / a sense of itself / hearing light walking down (14:20): MP3

    December 22, 2017

    • witnessing the place awake / omnidirectional transubstantiation / turning out to be / untold newly unnamed sayings (1:05:42): MP3

    Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole (preverbs), December 22–27, 2017

    December 22, 2017

    • 1-11 (29:03): MP3

    December 27, 2017

    • 12-34 (57:03): MP3

    Polypoikilos: matrix in variance (preverbs), December 27, 2017–January 13, 2018

    December 27, 2017

    • 1-11 (27:06): MP3

    January 13, 2018

    • 12-21 (24:38): MP3
    • 22-34 (32:49): MP3

    © 2022 George Quasha. These sound recordings available for non-commercial and educational use only. Distributed with permission by PennSound.