CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6052
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Vancouver Poetry Center: Allen Ginsberg reading and performing at the PNE Garden Auditorium on November 25, 1978 #246
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Ginsberg, Allen
Dates:
1926-1997
Role:
"Reader",
"Performer"
Name:
Blaser, Robin
Dates:
1925-2009
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
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:
Good
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other:
J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:29
Size:
43.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:45:28
Size:
44.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1978-11-25
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Playland, PNE Playland Entrance, Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver, District of North Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, V5K, Canada
Venue:
PNE Garden
Latitude:
49.28150
Longitude:
-123.03618
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 Sings Blake’s “Spring” from Songs of Innocence
070 Warren Tallman speaks
073 Robin Blaser introduces AG
106 AG reads “in the style of Australian aborigine men…”
112 “When the red pond fills…”
131 “Xmas gift, 1972: dream”
196 “What I’m doing is reciting and singing in chronological order, this is 1973, February: a little poem called “Everybody sing.”
237 “Dope fiend blues shuffle”
304 “Hard-on blues”
346 “The next poem is a by-product of Buddhist meditation practice… Shamathah style… the next poem is written during a period of sitting ten hours a day for a month… but I’m afraid it’s not totally comprehensible unless everybody understands that practice, so what I would like to do is… have a five minute period of sitting practice…”
502 Period of meditation ends
510 Mind Breaths (title poem written at Teton Village in 1973 in the fall, where I was at a meditation seminary with Chogyam Trungpa and a hundred other sitters)…”
525 “Mind breaths”
645 Sound breaks off in mid-poem
647 Sound returns
665 “A few years later I sat for… a couple of weeks… and wrote a few haiku poems.”
674 “Sitting on a tree stump…”
678 “Not a word…”
681 “Fly on my nose…”
682 “An hour after dawn…”
684 “Walking into King’s supermarket…”
691 Sound stops – end of side one
Two 000 “My father died in 1976…”
010 This is a series of poems called “Don’t grow old”
012 “Old poet, poetry’s final subject glimmers, month ahead.”
047 “And my father died while I was in Colorado, so I flew home and wrote”Father death blues” (sings)
083 (increase in volume)
104 “Near the scrapyard my father will be buried…”
115 “What’s to be done about death?”
121 “Don’t grow old. 8”
138 “At my urging, my eldest nephew came to keep his grandfather company…”
159 “Ten: resigned”
169 “That’s the end of that series, and next we have “Punk rock” (reads)
187 “A bluegrass version of the traditional Bashō haiku: “The old pond./ frog jumps in the water/sound of water splashing.”
193 Sings “The old pond/frog jumps in: ker-plunk…”
261 The last of the evening is “Plutonium ode,” written this year (1978) The platonic great year is 24,000 years… that is the ½-life of plutonium… (Prefaces with story of the reverse or gnostic or Ophidic interpretation of the story of the garden of Eden.)… This poem was written the night before I went out to get busted (at Rocky Flats, Colo.) (gives “footnotes to the poem”)
355 Reads “Plutonium ode”
500 “Plutonium ode” ends – preparation for “The tyger”
541 Blake’s “Tyger”
590 Reading ends. AG announces Gary Cramer’s band
605 Sound ends
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Allen Ginsberg Reading at the PNE Garden Auditorium, November 25, 1978 Side 1: 44:30 Side 2: 44:00 (Volume jumps up and down wildly at many points) Dolby B
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