CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5309
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
The Coast is Only a Line: Fred Wah Reading at the SFU Art Gallery on July 21, 1981 #338
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Role:
"Reader"
Name:
Tallman, Warren
Dates:
1921-1994
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Vanel, Kurtis
Dates:
1936-2017
Role:
"Recordist"
Notes:
no info in any directories, he was an SFU technician, also known as 'Doug Gysemen'
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:02
Size:
47.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:03
Size:
45 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1981-07-21
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Venue:
SFU Art Gallery
Latitude:
49.2767
Longitude:
-122.9178
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Introduction by Warren Tallman
054 Fred Wah’s introduction to the reading, including statement “From in here” from Loki is buried at Smokey Creek: selected poems
100 “Lardeau summer 1964”
119 “Shape-of-a-bird-with-stars-in-its-eyes”
131 “Among”
137 “Hermes in the trees”
162 “The flower”
175 “Tree”
181 “Out here”
193 “On the earth”
210 “I imagine it”
222 “Severance spring water”
247 “It’s a red globe” from Breathin’ my name with a sigh
290 “I like the purity of all things seen”
302 “Loki death dog died”
315 “stomach-inging”
321 “Are origins magnetic lines across an ocean…?”
328 “Be careful story”
340 “mmmmmmmmm”
348 “I lie here and wait for life again”
354 “It’s not enough”
362 “the build up”
368 “lines”
380 “outside it’s snowing”
388 “OK I get a sense of it now”
397 “as he leaves her”
408 “sounds of o and ree…”
423 “Breathe dust like you breathe wind”
450 “my father hurt”
459 “poem lightens the lungs…”
466 “what’s it like to hold yourself in”
482 “try it”
495 “got his eyes sister”
500 “sigh”
520 “when he wanted to stay alive”
530 “to get at how the river…”
540 “the father grandfather”
549 “runs the cycle”
565 “waiting for Saskatchewan”
590 “I jazz I sing”
595 “next spring”
Two 000 Introduction by Fred Wah
012 “How does the jazz go?”
024 “…With feeling”
038 “Introduction to Owner’s manual
052 “How to get across the river”
067 “How to do this”
093 “How to get back”
094 “How to read a map”
148 “How to be something”
161 “How to go south”
174 “How to hunt”
192 “What to do when you get there”
209 “How to disappear”
222 “How to build a fire”
241 “Guardian spirit”
253 “How to nest”
269 “How to take a leak in the snow on a January night up the valley”
280 “How to clean up in the spring and fall”
300 “How to farm”
310 “How to get away”
322 “How to find something”
349 “How to be sure”
372 Introduction to translations from Nicole Brossard’s Mon continent
378 “But land which is placed to a set time…”
398 “My female place of all spaces”
413 “But my world these spaces of the mind”
433 “My multiple world of cells”
467 “My continent” from Breathin’ my name with a sigh
489 “stomach-inging”
510 “lines”
540 “poem lightens the lungs…”
560 “try it adds up to a colour”
588 “world”
617 “trumpet grammar subject act”
641 “I jazz I sing”
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: The Coast is Only a Line: Fred Wah Reading at the SFU Art Gallery and IMC Sound Studio July 21, 1981 Side 1: 43:30. Side 2: 29:30 Recorded by Kurtis Vanel Dolby B
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