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Sound poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1295 Collections and/or Records:

Tokyokyoto, 1975

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17588-17954
Scope and Contents

This work includes mocked-up pages for the book along with background material. In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Tokyokyoto 1st edition / Cobbing, Bob ; Ginsberg A., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-17586-17952
Scope and Contents

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Tokyokyoto 2nd edition / Cobbing, Bob ; Ginsberg A., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-61927-10004396
Scope and Contents

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the second edition, the first edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1975 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Tokyokyoto / Cobbing, Bob ; Ginsberg A., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-17587-17953
Scope and Contents

In this book, Cobbing describes his journey from Kyoto to Tokyo using maps, schedules, and poetry to trace the route. Allen Ginsburg's poem "The Change (Kyoto to Tokyo Express)" is also included. This copy is the first edition, the second edition also held by the Sackner Archive was published in 1981 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Tone Poems / Rushmer, David., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-03381-3436
Scope and Contents

These poems were conceived as "Visual Sound" and were inspired by the music of Cage, Reich and Stockhausen as well as by avant garde rock groups like "Throbbing Gristle." All utilize typewriter characters but with one exception, none have English language letters. One of the poems is entitled "(breathing)" and depicts crescendo-decrescendo like images made with the Greek letter Omega. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Trailers / Basinski, Michael., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-53254-74406
Scope and Contents

Derek Bieulieu comments on back cover: With TRAILERS, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed, ' the language bloomed past the letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of the 'noise for active space'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Transparence / Henri Chopin; Marc Battier., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-20836-21244
Scope and Contents

The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Transparence / Henri Chopin; Marc Battier., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-20836-21244
Scope and Contents

The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Transubstantiations Mixed and Fixed, 1978

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26104-26566
Scope and Contents

This is designated the first copy printed. H.G. stands for Hans Gunther. Adler (1910--88) was born in Prague and was imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Ruhenthal) and Auschwitz. In his wanderings after the war, he later came to consider himself a freelancer and teacher. He was the father of Jeremy Adler, the British concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Transubstantiations Mixed and Fixed , 1978

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26105-26567
Scope and Contents

H.G. stands for Hans Gunther. Adler (1910--88) was born in Prague and was imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Ruhenthal) and Auschwitz. In his wanderings after the war, he later came to consider himself a freelancer and teacher. He was the father of Jeremy Adler, the British concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978