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1. radiOM.org - Morning Concert The Music of Robert Hughes and the Poetry of Ezra Pound [5.176% Popularity: 0.00000]

Morning Concert: The Music of Robert Hughes and the Poetry of Ezra Pound Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 176 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer, bassoonist, and conductor, Robert Hughes, one of the liveliest figures in San Francisco Bay Area music, and for many years conductor of the nationally prominent Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra. Hughes plays a selection of his works, largely in chronological order. The final four pieces in this program feature acoustic sounds juxtaposed against quadraphonic tapes realized primarily on Moog equipment at Mills College. Hughes is also one of the leading authorities on Ezra Pound. In 1958 he visited Pound at a mental institution in Washington D. C. Hughes reminisces about Pound, and we hear the poet reading from his works. (from KPFA Folio) Part 1 of 3: Musical Selections: [excerpt from “Cadences” mixed with a poem by Ezra Pound] -- Kama Sutra: Dance of Display ; Love Scene / Robert Hughes -- Upon ...

2. radiOM.org - A Reading from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales [4.352% Popularity: 0.00000]

A Reading from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 50 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Professor Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. reads the general prologue and the concluding retraction of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” One of the foremost experts on early English poetry, Bessinger offers a masterful recitation of this seminal work of literature, all in the original Middle English. The lyrical quality of Chaucer’s masterpiece is best appreciated when read aloud by someone fluent in the archaic form of English in which it was written. While most students have read at least one of these tales in a High School English class, those often belabored readings, replete with many mispronunciations and frequent interruptions, as various footnotes are investigated, often remove much of the beauty, and mask the humor, that is the hallmark of the original poem. It is therefore a marvelous opportunity to have all the various characters of the book so vividly brought to ...

3. radiOM.org - Ferguson's Dictionary for Concrete Poets: The Four-Letter Words [0.523% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ferguson's Dictionary for Concrete Poets: The Four-Letter Words Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 27 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) Internationally prominent Canadian intermedia artist Gerald Ferguson has compiled by computer a dictionary for poets who utilize words as material for composing visual (concrete) poetry. Here is his reading, recorded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, of “The Four-Letter Words” of his dictionary which lists all words from the “Standard Corpus of Present Day American English Language Usage” in order by the number of letters in each word. (There are also sections titled The Three-Letter, Five-Letter, etc...) Genre: Poetry Subject: Poetry ; Concrete poetry ; Visual poetry People: Ferguson, Gerald Recording Date: 12/10/1970 First Broadcast Date: 3/3/1971 Listen...

4. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity A Poetry Reading by Charles Reznikoff, March 21, 1974 [0.270% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: A Poetry Reading by Charles Reznikoff, March 21, 1974 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 55 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) A reading by the then 80 year old Charles Reznikoff, recorded at the Poetry Center of San Francisco State University on March 21, 1974, in which the poet reads a selection of his works written from 1918 to 1974. Reznikoff, along with fellow poets Carl Rakosi, Louis Zukofsky, and George Oppen were dubbed the Objectivist Poets by Ezra Pound back in the 1930s, and it is Oppen who offers a warm introduction at the start of this program. Reznikoff then reads a number of his mostly short and untitled poems, the topics of which range from vignettes about life in New York City, portraits of working people of varying ethnicity, stories garnered from law reports, and ruminations on Judaism. Always cheerful, never boring, and free of all pretension, this is a poet for the ages. Note: The attribution of these poems is b...

5. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Three French Sound Poets [0.240% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Three French Sound Poets Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 99 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin & Bernard Heidsieck were all pioneers in the field of sound poetry. Working in Paris in the mid 1950s, they developed extraordinary vocal sounds which were mixed electronically to produce poems which sounded rather than meant. Chopin moved to England where he continued to publish a yearly periodical of concrete poetry called “OU.” Dufrene and Heidsieck remained in Paris where they continued to record their works. In this program all three give their views on the art of sound poetry, which, although well known abroad, has attracted little attention in the United States. The program begins with an interview with Henri Chopin and his family, recorded by Charles Amirkhanian and Carol Law at Chopin’s home in Ingatestone, Essex, on April 3, 1972. Chopin’s English wife, Jean, assists in translating from F...

6. radiOM.org - Ode To Gravity Vocal Yokels [0.100% Popularity: 0.00000]

Ode To Gravity: Vocal Yokels Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 60 mins Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA An eclectic mix of text-sound compositions, world music, and other bizarre recordings, some of which were presented at the 1970 Fylkingen Festival in Stockholm. Highlights of this adventurous free-form radio program include Arne Mellnäs’ “Far Out,” a hauntingly beautiful auditory portrait of Laura Nyro, in which elements of some her best known songs are artfully mixed and manipulated to eloquently evoke the career of this talented singer-songwriter. Also heard are a couple of pieces of sound poetry by Charles Amirkhanian, some of which may have been improvised on the spot by the host, and a program closing montage of electronic music, excerpts from “The Merchant of Venice”, committee meeting roll calls, and other sundry sounds. Filling in the gaps of this lively and engaging program are selections of world music, wolves howling, and the sounds of breathing. Taken in its entiret...

7. radiOM.org - Words Program No. 2: Tom Clark and Ron Padgett [0.066% Popularity: 0.00000]

Words: Program No. 2: Tom Clark and Ron Padgett Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 62 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA An Academy of American Poets reading at the Guggenheim Museum, recorded on March 5, 1968. Tom Clark and Ron Padgett read a selection of their poetry, including some collaborative works. Highlights include a funny variation of one of James Wright’s poems “Outside Fargo, North Dakota” (which is also read for necessary comparisons), as well as two “postcard poems” in which the addresses are turned into verse, to amuse the postal workers and to see if artistic renderings of such important details would still allow the cards to reach their intended recipients. The rest of the poems, many of which are less than a minute in length, run the gamut, from odes written by a fictional poets to descriptions of Grandma Moses wearing sunglasses. It’s an hour long reading of American poetry written in the style typical of the late 20th century, funny, sexy, and insightful. Warning: co...