CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5359
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
bp Nichol interview with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling on November 16, 1986 part 2 of 2 #750
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Interview
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Butling, Paulina
Dates:
1939-
Role:
"Speaker",
"Interviewer"
Name:
Wah, Fred
Dates:
1939-
Role:
"Interviewer",
"Speaker"
Name:
Nichol, B. P.
Dates:
1944-1988
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Storage Capacity:
T02:08:00
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:38
Size:
39.0 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:15:42
Size:
18.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1986-11-16
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 007 Tape begins mid-interview with Nichol on imagination and play and process
075 Wah talks about a novel on the Titanic story that foreshadows the Titanic incident
101 Wah asks Butling if she has talked to bp about the unit of composition in The Martyrology? How it changes through the books. A sketchy discussion evolves with bp Nichol very poorly miked and barely audible in the background – Wah exits discussion
154 Butling states that content will take care of itself if bp Nichol looks after the form. Discussion becomes even more inaudible
217 Wah on a student’s book of poems, Robert McLean, who invented a line break
253 Mike is moved to catch Nichol’s voice
255 Nichol on pataphysical process in Book 2
304 Butling : you’re committed to process, to things not ending, so how do you stop?
307 Nichol says it’s arbitrary, it’s like a meditation
315 Nichol says the poem is dealing with the absolute nature of the transitory
325 Death brackets everything we’re talking about, which goes back to The Book of Hours
350 Trying to find an open structure which allows in the moment as well as a sense of history
376 Butling on Nichol’s ability to exit the didactic voice through use of sound and multiple voices
396 Side One ends
Two 009 Nichol on his family as a tribe with no national boundary
022 Nichol has no place to return to, no hometown
034 Nichol says he’s never become a regional poet because his family moved all the time. Nichol says his childhood moving traumatized him. Discussion ensues on the Canadian writing community
072 Nichol’s theme on a notion of return, a return to language
092 “The Plunkett Hotel” is about the desperate attempt to establish roots. A reclamation of what family was then
125 Butling asks about community : what gives you permission to transgress, or to do things that aren’t considered acceptable or normal?
147 Nichol on meeting Margaret Avison and her approval of his poetry
167 Nichol on meeting McCaffery in 1968, support and publishing
212 Nichol talks about media writing in later life and how it is not conducive to play
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
BP Nichol with Fred Wah and Pauline Butling November 16, 1986
part II
side 3: 28:57
side 4: 13:30
DOLBY B
#750
Note:
The first part of this interview is missing
Note:
the length of the digital file's side 1 is T00:30:38 and side 2 is T00:15:42, but the performance only takes 28:57 on side 1 and 13:30 on side 2 and the rest of audio is empty
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