Jackson Mac Low, "A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore" (performed August 11, 1975)

Jackson Mac Low

This poem/song/dance "...was produced by finding 960 words spelled from the letters of this man's name [Peter Innisfree Moore], and then using chance operations to draw them from the list and to place them on the drawing [or a kind of musical score], and then the people on the stage work freely from these materials, but always either saying the words or playing notes that correspond to the letters of these words."

To hear part of the performance, go here (RealAudio) or here (mp3).