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From: MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Snapshots [20 July 2005]

>Oh, quite - in fact you did a Snap not so very long ago which I
commented on - like a "spot of time", in-tense.

You did so, yes. It pleased me immensely. Thank you

>Pity I don't know the sound poetry - living here, I don't hear much of
that sort of thing unless it's downloadable.

Not much around now, never was. Cobbing and I used to move about in
performance, ignoring the needs of the mike and techheads said the result
was unpublishable. It wasn't and there were some quite publishable pieces
tho I agree some were muddy. It comes of performing in pub rooms not
designed acoustically. Our joint performances were excluded from the tapes
played at his recent Bury exhibition

There was a CD published some years ago which included us, but the guy
edited it, taking out the bits he didnt think should be there - a long
dialogue with a barking Alsatian who may have preferred Simon Armitage was
shushed - and over the years I have liked it less and less

Tapes I made in the 70s at Foreningen Fylkingen seem to have been lost.
Balsam Flex published stuff (me solo, jgjgjgj, mister cheek, allen fisher,
all sorts) in the late 70s, but it seems to be unobtainable now

Lots of my bigger pieces just havent been recorded Trachea with Rory
mcDermott at Nottingham Trent (last year?), Crowded with John Drever at
CPT - a fine - I think - tho certifiable performance of Sumner's Bucking
Curtains by me and Chris Goode.

if e-poetry 2005 happens John and I plan a new piece - we're working on it
already or else there won't be time to write it if we wait for official go
ahead

and there is a suggestion that Crowded be reperformed, or at least a part of
it called _Man on Land_

I hope to see more recorded but can't afford to replace my MD!!!

So it goes into the ether!!!

David Nash said of his wooden boulder, if that is indeed its title, it isnt
lost it is in its own place

I spend more time on visuals - which lead to sound performances - than on
the performances, though video is beyond my tech kit ability and that's
where I want to go - a few visuals on my website

http://pages.britishlibrary.net/lawrence.upton

please, as they say, excuse the mess

i need to clean up the dodgy links etc

a while ago i got to use a uni sound studio and have since been told NO ONE
has used it since, but now that project is over I have no claim on it...
such waste - the opportunity of making a clean recording would be one thing,
but the facility of a good DV camera + soundforge and premier on a computer
capable of running them was briefly wonderful... ah me

ta for telling me FIERALINGUE is ok - maybe its this worzel gummidge of a
machine

apologies to anny - I'll see if I can get a peoples net machine at the
library and have a look

the ww bits in MTS were undeclared and perhaps not as blatant as this
morning's poem - i was really playing around with autobiog etc; but making
explicit my struggle with the angel wordsworth may have been a snare if not
a delusion

apologies for such a long monologue, but as Mr Riley has eloquently reminded
us audiences are built up one by one

and now back to my domestuic chaos

all best


L