Today, 20 11 99, Bob Cobbing launched at The Barbican a range of books by
him or published by him.
The books were the two new Cobbing volumes from Etruscan Books, the WF book
by Peter French and the 2 Barbican DANs - all listed in yesterday's report
The launch consisted of a performance by Bob Cobbing, with and without
percussion, joined by me vocalising for much of it and Jennifer Pike dancing
for some of it.
Cobbing performed linear and visual texts from both Etruscan books - he did
"ping pong" and his 2 for Liz Lochhead and the linear part of Shakespeare
Kaku all solo.
The artist David Barton introduced the book by the late Peter French, who
had been David's student, and then Cobbing and I performed a double page
spread, 2 voice, each single page a voice
During our brief loud revisiting of the DANs made for the Barbican, Jennifer
Pike, masked and clothed in white drapes bearing parts of Cobbing's textual
contribution, danced.
This time there were no projections of text though the whole thing was
filmed as it had been the day before.
I forgot to say yesterday that I sought to use the largely unnecessary
microphone we were each provided (to make ourselves heard in a medium-sized
space) by moving in and out of its sensitivity area to change the timbre of
and even distort my voice - unfortunately, whoever was teching assumed this
was poor technique and kept adjusting on the fly so that the effects were
far less abrupt and far-reaching than I intended. Today, we eschewed the
mikes.
We had a time-planned programme and went through it like a dose of salts,
even with a clock in front of us, and ended with 10 mins to spare so Bob
said we are finished too early and I said yes we are and Bob said that won't
do and I said no it won't and Bob said let's do my Shakespeare Kaku so I
said yes let's so we did and it was good I think and we stopped dead on time
and people clapped.
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