CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
6177
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Robert Fones reading at the Western Front on March 31, 1975 #287
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Reading: Poetry
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Fones, Robert
Dates:
1949-
Role:
"Reader"
Name:
Knechtel, Mary Beth
Dates:
1943-
Role:
"Speaker"
Notes:
As it's written in the BC inventory document, it's assumed that Mary Beth Knechtel introduces Robert Fones
Name:
Dewdney, Christopher
Dates:
1951-
Role:
"Reader"
Notes:
His reading part is missing on this tape. Christopher’s reading part appears to be on tape #286.
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:
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:
T00:30:39
Size:
31.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:51
Size:
31.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Notes:
The first minute is full and the rest is blank
Dates
Date:
1975-03-31
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
303 E 8th Ave E, Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1
Venue:
The Western Front
Latitude:
49.26391
Longitude:
-123.09869
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000 C.D. speaking “O.K. that’s the only part that’s going to be over the P.A. (Announces he’ll read) “The song of remote control” (from Fovea centralis, Toronto : Coach House, 1975,p. 92) The beginning of this tape is a duplicate of tape 286 from side 1, 513
571 C.D.’s reading ends as on side one, tape 286
572 Introduction of Robert Fones by Mary Beth Knechtel (?) “He read at the Front on March 31, 1975.”
585 Robert Fones: “I’m going to start off with a few things from Anthropomorphiks…”
590 “City”
620 “The one-eyed jack”
657 “Ozone” (“The beginning of a new series of things I’ve been writing based on “The ant lions”)
692 “Ode to a miniature Roy Rogers”
801 Reads poems from The forest city
808 “Music beings convey the tone arm to the record...”
848 “Seen through a snow fence, a frieze of history animates…”
887 “Here, in the city, where there are no foxes…”
1000 “…I was…conceiving London (Ont.) as a grail city, in a sense…and everyone is a hologram in the poem…This (next) poem is…the arrival of the Galahad figure, who is going to free
the town…”
1018 “I am a knight with a Cadillac of power windows…"
1041 “Woozles” (for Chris Dewdney)
1100 “Turpentine”
1137 Speaks of the following two poems as being tied in with his sense of limited vision”.
1213 “Partial”
1262 “Impartial”
1291 “Rinky-Tink for slinger” (for Ed Dorn)
1320 “This is one of the few cone poems I ever wrote that explains…my fascination for them, called “Wouldn’t it be sad if there were no cones?”
1412 “Roberts Creek”
1480 Sound ends – side one ends
The rest of Robert Fones’s reading may be found on Tape no. 290, side on left channel.
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Liner Notes: Robert Fones Reading at the Western Front March 31, 1975 24 min Dolby B
Note:
The Western Front is the donor as inventory says
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