Words and Music at Casa del Popolo 2006-04-23

CLASSIFICATION

Swallow ID:
1214
Partner Institution:
Concordia University
Source Collection Label:
Ian Ferrier fonds
Sub Series:
Ian Ferrier fonds

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Title:
Words and Music at Casa del Popolo 2006-04-23
Title Source:
Container
Title Note:
On MD "W+M April 2006 HOWL+ PHARMAKON #1"
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Performance: Spoken Word Poetry
Identifiers:
[]

Rights

CREATORS

Name:
Anderson, Fortner
Dates:
1955-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/106026246
Role:
"Performer"
Name:
Ferrier, Ian
Dates:
1954-
URL:
http://viaf.org/viaf/91437046
Role:
"Series organizer"
Name:
Paquette, Catherine
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
No viaf entry.
Name:
Shaughnessy, Kyra
Role:
"Performer"
Notes:
No viaf entry.

CONTRIBUTORS

MATERIAL DESCRIPTION

Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Minidisc
Physical Composition:
Magneto-Optical
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Poor

DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION

Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
96kHz
Duration:
01:20:51
Size:
1 GB
Bitrate:
24
Encoding:
Waveform

Dates

Date:
2006-04-23
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Container

LOCATION

Address:
4873, Boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Venue:
Casa del Popolo (Montreal)
Latitude:
45,5222118
Longitude:
-73,5905321
URL:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1570292450

CONTENT

Contents:
File 1 of 2 - Howl Minidisc #1.wav Unknown 00:00:00 Ambient Sounds [feedback; movement; voices]. Ian Ferrier 00:00:22 Addresses unknown performer. An exchange follows. Unknown 00:00:39 Ambient Sounds [Recording of Allen Ginsberg reading “Howl” in front of a live audience]. | Keywords: “Howl” ; Allen Ginsberg . Fortner Anderson 00:02:18 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo…”]. Pierre LeNoir [?] 00:03:43 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford’s…”]. Kyra Shaughnessy 00:05:14 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who studied Plotinus Poe St. John of the Cross telepathy and bop kabbalah…”]. Vince Tinguely 00:06:19 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco of haze of Capitalism…”]. Luna Allison 00:07:31 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob behind a partition…”]. Sherwin Tjia 00:08:35 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who went out whoring through Colorado in myriad stolen night-cars, N.C….”]. Catherine Paquette [?] 00:10:14 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts…”]. Endre Farkas 00:11:53 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened…”]. Carolyn Souaid 00:13:08 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who fell on their knees in hopeless cathedrals praying…”]. Audience 00:14:27 Laughter. Ian Ferrier 00:14:28 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table…”] Erin May [?] 00:15:34 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe…”] Vince Tinguely 00:17:04 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“II. What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls…”]. Pierre LeNoir [?] 00:18:53 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone!…”] Kyra Shaughnessy 00:21:08 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“III. Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland where you’re madder than I am…”]. Endre Farkas 00:21:57 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“I’m with you in Rockland where you pun on the bodies of your nurses…”]. Fortner Anderson [?] 00:22:50 Performs from Ginsberg’s “Howl” [“I’m with you in Rockland where there are twenty-five-thousand mad comrades…”]. Audience 00:23:52 Applause. Ian Ferrier 00:24:10 Addresses audience. Announces all performers [Fortner Anderson, Pierre LeNoir, Kyra Shaughnessy, Vince Tinguely, Luna Alison, Sherwin Tjia, Catherine Paquette, Endre Farkas, Carolyn Marie Souaid, Ian Ferrier, Erin May?]. Announces intermission. Audience 00:24:58 Applause. Ian Ferrier 00:25:03 Announces second set. Introduces Bryan Highbloom and Pharmakon MTL. | Keywords: Thêatre La Chapelle [Montreal, Canada]; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Beat Generation . Audience 00:25:41 Applause. Bryan Highbloom 00:25:45 Addresses audience. Introduces recitation of “Howl”. | Keywords: Bonder’s Book Store [Librairie Bonder]; City Lights ; Outremont . Bryan Highbloom; Ian Ferrier; Pharmakon MTL 00:26:53 Performs musical recitation of “Howl”. Audience 01:06:36 Applause. Unknown 01:06:49 Ambient Sounds [microphone feedback; voices]. Endre Farkas 01:07:04 Introduces “Howl Too, Eh?”. | Keywords: Ken Norris ; Ruth Taylor . Audience 01:07:26 Laughter. Endre Farkas 01:07:28 Resumes introduction of “Howl Too, Eh?”. | Keywords: National Lampoon . Endre Farkas 01:08:17 Performs “Howl Too, Eh?” [audience laughter throughout]. Unknown 01:19:05 Silence [Cut in recording]. END 01:32:31 [Recording continues on file 2]. File 2 of 2 — Howl minidisc #2.wav Unknown 00:00:00 Ambient Sounds [recorded music]. Unknown 00:00:15 Ambient Sounds [instruments; voices]. Luna Allison, Pharmakon MTL 00:02:22 Performs unnamed composition. Sherwin Tjia, Pharmakon MTL 00:10:53 Performs unnamed composition. Unknown performer, Pharmakon MTL 00:16:29 Performs unnamed composition. Vince Tinguely [?], Pharmakon MTL 00:19:16 Performs unnamed composition. Vince Tinguely [?] 00:19:37 Addresses audience. Introduces recitation of “Footnote to Howl” [Pharmakon MTL performs in background]. Vince Tinguely [?], Pharmakon MTL 00:19:46 Performs musical rendition of “Footnote to Howl”. Audience 00:23:48 Applause. Unknown 00:23:55 Ambient Sounds [Recording of Ginsberg reading “Howl”]. END 00:27:08 [End of recording].
Notes:
On Sunday 23 April 2006, the Words and Music show celebrate the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s first presentation of HOWL. Montreal poets Fortner Anderson, Ian Ferrier, Catherine Paquette and Kyra Shaughnessy pay tribute to the Beat Generation at the Casa del Popolo. Doors open at 8PM, admission is $5. The show is hosted by Ian Ferrier, and presented in collaboration with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, CKUT 90.3FM, the IPOLC program of the Department of Canadian Heritage and Wired on Words Productions.

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