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Ode To Gravity: Bob Cobbing |
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Item Type: Sound Recording |
Duration: 44 min |
Event Type: Interview and Music |
Program Origin: KPFA |
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One of the best known sound poets in the world, Bob Cobbing is a dynamic gentleman with a sonorous voice and lovely accent, who was a poet, performer, and composer of text-sound compositions. Cobbing also was a producer and collector of concrete or visual poetry, and his bookstore, Better Books of London was a leading distribution point for avant-garde poets during the 1960s and 70s. In this program, recorded in 1972, Cobbing talks about his early work as a teacher and later as a publisher of visual poetry, as well as his opinions about the field of sound poetry. You will hear a selection of his sound poems and an engaging interview recorded in Cobbing’s home as he talked with Charles Amirkhanian. Bob Cobbing died in 2002 at the age of 82. |
Musical Selections: |
Whisper Piece No. 4 “Whississippi” (8:00) / Bob Cobbing -- As Easy (1970) (7:30) / Bob Cobbing -- [unidentified medley of jazz, etc...] (8:25) -- Pentagrams, Book 3: The Release [excerpt] (1924-26) (1:00) / Dane Rudhyar |
Performers: |
Bob Cobbing, voice (Whississippi ; As Easy) Kerstin Lundberg, voice (Whississippi ; As Easy) Michael Sellers, piano (Pentagrams) |
Genre: |
Sound Poetry |
Subject: |
Cobbing, Bob, 1920-; Sound poetry; Text-sound compositions; Birdsongs; Jazz; Piano music |
People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Cobbing, Bob, 1920-; Lundberg, Kerstin M. ; Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985 |
Recording Date: |
9/20/1972 |
First Broadcast Date: |
9/20/1972 |
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