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Sound poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 488 Collections and/or Records:

Ballads of the Restless Are, 1968

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-30415-31835
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / bpNichol

Ballet of the Speech Organs: On Bob Cobbing / Cobbing, Bob ; Smith, Steven Ross ; Toop D ; Cheek C ; Griffiths B ; Adler J ; Burwell P ; Hollo A ; Harwood L ; Nuttall J ; Rowan J ; Claire P ; bissett b ; Valoch J ; Ginsberg A ; Jandl E ; Nichol bp ; Dufrene F ; Kerouac J ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Chopin H ; Stein G ; DeVree P., 1998

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-44993-47169
Scope and Contents Cobbing describes the first time he used words in a non-semantic way (1959). Now does no belive that there are any distinction beween music and art and poetry and dance. He indicates that he does not notate his sound poems because "every shape one sees on a page, conjures up a sound - any sound one hears conjures up a pattern, a mark on the page. Ross asks Cobbing about his sound scores [abstract markings] and how he reads these marks. He cites Norman McLaren who drew a sound track on film. McLaren stated that "a thin line will give you a high sound, a thicker line will give you a lower sound. If you make a little tiny point it'll give you a high 'ping,' if you make it a rounder blob, a biggr blob, it'll give you a 'boom'..." Cobbing indicates than when he makes marks on paper, he writes in sound. Cobbing tells about a painting he made that was exhibited in a library entitled "Integration alone is not enough" (1962/1963) in which Margaret Thatcher, then a local representative saw...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1998

Bang On / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44944-47117
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Domestic Ambient Noise Series (with Lawrence Upton)

Beseechers, 2000

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-40988-42967
Scope and Contents

This book consist of the scores five single or multiple sound/performance poems with notes on the poems in a section at the end of the book. The poems are highly graphic in nature and are intended as a guide to the performer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Bill Jubobe , 1976

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17689-18057
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1976

Bill Jubobe: Selected Texts of Bob Cobbing 1942-1975 / Cobbing, Bob ; O'Huigen, Sean., 1976

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-17490-17856
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Cobbing's works textural and abstract xerox works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / undated / multi-dated

Birdyak - Extreme Quartet / Bob Cobbing, editor ; P Metcalf ; J Pike, 1996

 Item — Box 390: [Barcode: 31858072461548]
Identifier: CC-45176-47359
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Reference Materials / Exhibit Catalogs & Event Announcements

Birdyak in Concert / Bob Cobbing, 1993

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-61903-10004376
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Reference Materials / Exhibit Catalogs & Event Announcements

[Birth odf Konkrete Canticle"I Have Performed Many Times with Paula Claire] / Cobbing, Bob; Claire P., 1975

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17684-18052
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1975

Black Clouds, 1987

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17758-18127
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1987

[Black Sound Box], 2000

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-39547-41505
Scope and Contents

The sound it makes when the box is moved could be a single, round object like a playing marble. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / Anonymous

Black & White Minstrelsy Book One / Cobbing, Bob., 1990

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17354-17718
Scope and Contents

All the images in this book are abstract. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1990

BLAINE 4 Operations, 1972

 Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]
Identifier: CC-21272-21682
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

Blue on Pink Birthday Poem for Bob and Jennifer by Eye and Aye in Black and White / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence ; Pike J., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44981-47157
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Domestic Ambient Noise Series (with Lawrence Upton)

Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum: 1992 is the Anniversary Year, 1992

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-20346-20743
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1992

bob jubile, 1990

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-20678-21080
Scope and Contents

Consists of selected texts by Bob Cobbing 1944-1990. Jennifer Pike, Bob's wife, also writes under the name Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1990

[Body Poetry Sonograms], 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-17477-17843
Scope and Contents

The sheets depict graphic representations of spectral analysis for various bodysounds produced by Curtay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

Body Sound Art Manifesto , 1983

 Item — Folder 66: [Barcode: 31858072538006]
Identifier: CC-19974-20362
Scope and Contents

Published in the Washington Review 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Calalu Malanga / Cobbing, Bob., 1975

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17680-18048
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1975

Canvas for 2 Performers Sketch, 1971

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-26186-26649
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)