[{"id":"6297","cataloger_name":["Linara,Kolosov"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Reading in BC Collection"],"source_collection_label":["Reading in BC Collection"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["Reading in BC collection was assembled during the late 1970s and ‘80s. There are approximately 1000 tapes in this collection. It consists of the recordings of Canadian and American writers, mostly poets, reading poems, talking, being interviewed, participating in panel discussions, and so on. Most of the recordings were made in BC, but there are some made elsewhere in Canada or the USA. Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["BP Nichol On Ideas: reading \"Little Boy Lost\" and \"Mother Tongue\", 1969 #295, #296"],"item_title_source":["cassette and j-card"],"item_title_note":["Liner notes: see the photo in the material description"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Nichol, B.P."],"creator_names_search":["Nichol, B.P."],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, B.P.\",\"dates\":\"1944-1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\",\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1969],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/8142/Reading in BC_MsC199_295,296.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"SFU\",\"generations\":\"Second generation from Reel-to-Reel\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"295-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"2 (stereo)\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:34\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"27.9 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"296-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"2 (stereo)\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:30:46\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"28.1 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1969\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"This date is taken from j-card, I assume that it is the date when the recording was made\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[]"],"City":["Other"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["#295\nSide\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t0000\t\n\t\t0008\tIntro – Children’s choir followed by voice over “Philosophy is just one road on the way to understanding language.  Sound poet bp Nichol has devised another way, a trip to the land of Lingwa.  A place, I’m sure you’ll agree, which is only slightly improbable.”\n\t\t0020\tIdeas New Radio serial: Little Boy Lost meets Mother Tongue.\n\t\t0022\t\"Episode #1\n“Once upon a time…”  Linguistics and its drive towards understanding presented in the rhyme, meter and tone of a fairy tale.  Nichol adopts various voices within the format\"\n\t\t0200\tEpisode #1 ends.  Details of Episode #2 storyline are given\n\t\t0215\tEpisode #2 (more children’s choir music at the beginning)  Little Boy Lost in the Sea of Logical Sequences.  Later rescued by the Beast of Illogicality\n\t\t0430\tEpisode #2 ends.  Details of Episode #3 storyline are given\n\t\t0449\tEpisode #3 (more ridiculous children’s choir music at the beginning) Little Boy Lost continues on his adventures\n\t\t0840\tEpisode #3 ends.  Details of Episode #4 storyline are given\nTwo\t\t\tSide two is blank\n\n#296\nSide\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t0000\t\n\t\t0009\tChildren’s choir music and singing.  “It’s time now for the fourth episode in bp Nichol’s radio serial “Little Boy Lost Meets Mother Tongue”.  An epic odyssey set in the land of Lingwa\n\t\t0023\t\"Little Boy Lost Meets Mother Tongue\nEpisode #4 (Episodes #1-#3 are to be found on Tape #295)\"\n\t\t0194\tEpisode #4 ends.  Details of Episode #5 storyline are given\n\t\t0218\tEpisode #5 – “What will happen to Nim, Gronk and L.B.L.?”\n\t\t0438\tEpisode #5 ends.  Episode #6 storyline is given\n\t\t0452\tEpisode #6 – “The new unity of communative states”.\n\t\t0737\tEpisode #6 ends\n\t\t1026\tSide One ends\nTwo\t\t\tSide Two is blank\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"As the BC inventory document states, the second side of each tape #265 and #296 are blank, but the first sides of these tapes are digitized on two side of 295,296-side-1.mp3 and 295,296-side-2.mp3\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670555072331778,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.437Z","score":3.3605485}]