Gilbert Adair didnt make it to sub voicive poetry tonight - but we had made
arrangements to cover that. The arrangements were:
Ira Lightman accompanied by Mike Higgins, Mike... Mike Surname, Ira tell us
Mike Surname's surname and apologise to him for me please and Shawn Walker.
First half was Lightman singing his astonishing songs with Higgins on guitar
and Surname on percussion using ash trays, knees, table; and then Shawn
Walker read from her poems
Second half Lightman performed in the dark, _reading_, lecturing, talking
while tapes played the human voice backwards and sometimes under Higgins
manipulation the machine gave out bits of radio
He went on till it hurt, but it was the hurt of a long walk [substitute your
own vice] rather than the hurt of falling over
Audience was poor. I can't believe people didn't want to see this. Must be
obsession with soccer and whimpishness over an ineffectual tube strike.
Well, it's a market economy; how you'd all cope with a free country I have
no idea
SVP 98-13 includes poetry by Ira Lightman and Johan de Wit. Shawn Walker
will appear in a future issue
Ira has self? published PUNCTUATES OUR VOCABULARY, a set of his
horizontal-vertical texts found in other texts. Exciting stuff. Recommended.
Next SVP performance is 2 weeks - Ric Caddel and Lee Harwood 30th June
Possibility of an svp writers forum book launch featuring a Mr B
MacSweeney - watch this hyperspace
Otherwise the series rests after Ric and Lee until Robert Sheppard and
Keston Sutherland 22 9 98
Unless you live within 2 miles of the Royal Fesival Hall you may not know
about Resonance which broadcasts on 107.3 FM between 9 June and 5 July
On Saturday 20 June Domestic Ambient Boise, Ulli Freer, Johan de Wit, Adrian
Clarke, Maggie O'Sullivan (on tape), Out to Lunch with links by saxophonist
Caroline Kraabel perform as CAN WORDS BE MUSIC? between 6.30 and 7.30, pm
I am told you can get real audio on http://www.l-m-c.org.uk
NB Kraabel and the Boise are also on the bill the following Tuesday at The
Klinker - north of the Angel, London, backchannel for fuller details
night night
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