Collection of Tapes Donated by Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte

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Quick navigation: Kathy Acker | David Antin | Ted Berrigan | Bob Cobbing | François DuFrêne | Clayton Eshleman | Allen Fisher | Allen Ginsburg | Lee Harwood | Kenneth Irby | Hiromi Itō | Pierre Joris | Jackson Mac Low | Anne Tardos | Lew Welch

Kathy Acker

Ma vie, ma mort, de Pier Paolo Pasolini, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, February 5 to March 3, 1984

Translation by Kate Manheim and Noël Burch. Show designed by Richard Foreman.

"Acker on the art of recycling the waste of our cultures."

Side A (31:40): MP3

Side B (28:48): MP3

Location information taken from https://lesarchivesduspectacle.net.

David Antin

The Archaeology Of Home, performed at KPFK Los Angeles Studio, January 27, 1987

Complete Recording (39:52)MP3

Lemons, performed at the University of Texas, Austin, 1983

Complete Recording (41:46)MP3

Julian Barry

Lenny, directed by Bob Fosse, 1974

Ted Berrigan

Reading from "500 American Postcards", October 1982

Part of "The Poetry Project". Original tape labled "JF. Mark's".

Complete recording (43:01): MP3

Bob Cobbing

Slowly Slowly The Tongue Unrolls / Computer Poem (Paris, 1968)

(Voices: Bob Cobbing and François DuFrêne)

• Slowly Slowly The Tongue Unrolls (5:31): MP3
• Computer Poem (3:36): MP3

François DuFrêne

Slowly Slowly The Tongue Unrolls / Computer Poem (Paris, 1968)

(Voices: Bob Cobbing and François DuFrêne)

• Slowly Slowly The Tongue Unrolls (5:31): MP3
• Computer Poem (3:36): MP3

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan ii, Directed by Richard O. Moore, November 2, 1965

Clayton Eshleman

Poems from The Gull Wall, date and location unknown

Complete Recording (25:42): MP3

Henry Ferrini

Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac, Directed by Henry Ferrini, Octber 6, 2000

Poem In Action: Portrait of Vincent Ferrini, Directed by Henry Ferrini, 1990

Allen Fisher

Readings from Place, date and location unknown

Complete Recording (12:10): MP3

The Art of Flight VI-IX: 4 voices simultaneously by Allen Fisher, date and location unknown

Complete Recording (4:37): MP3

Allen Ginsburg

Unknown Recording (labeled "Ginsberg #6"), date and location unknown

Side A (1:03:23): MP3

Side B (1:03:25): MP3

Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood at The Village Voice, March 29, 1985

Complete Recording (49:54): MP3

Poetry reading, date and location unknown

• Side A: The Long Black Veil (from HMS Little Fox, 1975)(36:24): MP3
(audio quality deteriorates as tape continues, audio cuts out early)
• Side B: Old Bosham Bird Watch, 1977 (26:00): MP3

Kenneth Irby

Reading of a series of poems written in Copenhagen, date and location unknown

Complete Recording (37:53): MP3

Hiromi Itō

UCSD New Writing Series Reading, January 28, 1998

Complete Recording (1:02:59): MP3

Pierre Joris

1 With Pierre's Words, Performance at Yulman Theatre, Union College, New York, May 3, 1997

Poems for the Millennium II, Reading at *unknown venue*, April 21, 1998

Poems for the Millennium, Reading at *unkown venue*, 1998

Reading at UC San Diego, November 29, 1989

Complete recording (52:10): MP3

Temple Reading, March 3, 1988

Complete recording (47:54): MP3

~10 minute introductory reading by unknown person called "Jennifer"

Reading at Dr. Generosity's, April 1974

Complete Recording (34:29): MP3

Reading in French, date and location unknown

Complete recording (51:34): MP3

Jackson Mac Low

Songs and Simultaneities, Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos, c. 1985

• Side 1 (32:31): MP3

1. Vocabulary for Anne Tardos, 1980 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice & recorder (8:14) (Mac Low)
2. Syllables, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (3:28) (Tardos)
3. Octet for a Sunset, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (6:04) (Tardos)
4. Heterophony, 1985 - from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1981 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (7:00) (Mac Low)
5. Aum Gatha, 1982 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (Mac Low)
6. Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer, 1976 - tape played with Aum Gatha (6:45) (Tardos)

• Side 2 (25:24): MP3

1. Tara Gatha, 1975 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice and recorder (Mac Low)
2. Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1984 - Tardos, Mac Low, voices (10:52) (Mac Low)
3. Figure and Escape, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (7:58) (Tardos)

Featuring Anne Tardos.

Reading of "Threnody for Sylvia Plath" and "Lucy Church Amiably", May 17, 1975

1. Threnody for Sylvia Plath (34:57): MP3
2. Lucy Church Amiably (20:05): MP3

Anne Tardos

Songs and Simultaneities, Jackson Mac Low & Anne Tardos, c. 1985

• Side 1 (32:31): MP3

1. Vocabulary for Anne Tardos, 1980 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice & recorder (8:14) (Mac Low)
2. Syllables, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (3:28) (Tardos)
3. Octet for a Sunset, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (6:04) (Tardos)
4. Heterophony, 1985 - from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1981 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (7:00) (Mac Low)
5. Aum Gatha, 1982 - Mac Low, Tardos, voices (Mac Low)
6. Real Sleeper, Real Dreamer, 1976 - tape played with Aum Gatha (6:45) (Tardos)

• Side 2 (25:24): MP3

1. Tara Gatha, 1975 - Tardos, voice; Mac Low, voice and recorder (Mac Low)
2. Phonemicon from "Hereford Bosons 1," 1984 - Tardos, Mac Low, voices (10:52) (Mac Low)
3. Figure and Escape, 1985 - Tardos, 8 voices (7:58) (Tardos)

Featuring Jackson Mac Low.

Lew Welch

Reading at U.C. Berkeley, 1965

Complete Recording (47:44): MP3

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