For any who might not know, bpNichol was not only one of Canada's but
one of the world's finest sound poets, & this archive is just
tremendous.
Wow.
Doug
On 22-Jan-06, at 12:18 PM, wild honey press wrote:
> from Lori Emerson:
>
> I am delighted to announce the release of the new, extensive audio
> archive for Canadian poet bpNichol, now available at PENNsound.
>
> ==========================================
> bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. Lori Emerson
> http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.html
> ==========================================
>
> Intended to be an invaluable resource for both teachers and
> researchers, the new site includes complete bibliographic information
> and downloadable recordings of poems from the following:
>
> +the 7 1Ú4 floppy record borders included in the box bp, published in
> February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario).
>
> +the first side of the phonodisc Motherlove, published in 1968 by
> Allied Record Corporation (Toronto, Ontario). The second side of the
> phonodisc will be available on the forthcoming 2-CD collection The
> Collected Sound Poems of bpNichol, to be published by Talonbooks
> (http://www.talonbooks.com/).
>
> +the entirety of the rare 60-minute cassette bp Nichol, published in
> 1971 by High Barnet Company (Toronto, Ontario).
>
> +the entirety of the split 7" single Appendix, published in 1978 by
> Black Moss Press (BM 101) (Windsor, Ontario); this was issued as part
> of Sean O'Huigin's POE TREE: A Simple Introduction to Experimental
> Poetry. Recording by R. Hindley-Smith and Starborne Productions.
>
> +the 60-minute cassette Ear Rational: Sound Poems 1966-1980, published
> in 1982 by Membrane Press New Fire Tapes (Milwaukee). Making brief
> appearances are the voices of Michael Dean, Paul Dutton, Steve
> McCaffery, David Penhale, Steven Smith (now Steven Ross Smith), and
> Richard Truhlar.
>
> +live solo performances by bpNichol from 1978, 1980, and 1986. This
> material comes from the archives of The Four Horsemen, courtesy Paul
> Dutton.
>
> ==========================================
> bp Nichol Audio Archive, ed. Lori Emerson
> http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Nichol.html
> ==========================================
>
> About PennSound
> http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
>
> Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis, Directors
> Chris Mustazza, Managing Director
> Kenneth Goldsmith, Senior Editor
> Loss Peque–o Glazier, Joel Kuszai, & Martin Spinelli, Contributing
> Editors
> John MacDermott, Technical Advisor
> Kun Jia, Julie Sheetz & Mollie Braverman, Student Technical Support
> Staff
>
> PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio
> recordings and preserving existing audio archives. We intend to
> provide as much documentation about individual recordings as possible;
> new bibliographic information will be added over time (please contact
> us if you can supplement the information already provided). As part of
> the PennSound project, the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text &
> Image (SCETI) in collaboration with the Annenberg Rare Book and
> Manuscript Collection at the University of Pennsylvania is developing
> a sophisticated cataloguing tool for all our sound files; this should
> be available in about one year.
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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