KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Ode To Gravity: Integral Instant (Four Situations) by Hammond Guthrie

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

OTG.1970.08.19

Program Series

Ode To Gravity

Program Length

61 min

Dates

1970-08-19 | broadcast
| 1970-08-19 | created

Description

An evening of experimental literature, poetry, and music by the San Francisco based writer and inter-media artist, Hammond Guthrie, in collaboration with his colleagues, Peter Cosgrove, Max Crosley, and others. This program includes a number of poems, written and performed in the style of the Beat Generation; a spattering of electronic music; and an experimental auditory collage of free association. This program is dedicated to Tristan Tzara and William S. Burroughs.

Warning: Contains obscenities. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Sound poetry
Literature

Musical Selections

Introduction / Peter Cosgrove -- Treatise on a Bum (for Kerouac) / Hammond Guthrie -- Disintegration to Breath / Max Crosley & Hammond Guthrie -- Musical Intermission / Group Togetherness -- My Hemingway / Max Crosley -- Free Association Collage / Jeff Beach, Peter Cosgrove, Max Crosley, & Hammond Guthrie

Performers

Chuck Sher, contrabass viol (Treatise)

Subjects

Poetry
Text-sound compositions
Sound poetry
Poetry -- Readings with music
Literature, Experimental
Electronic music
Cut-ups (Literary form)

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Amirkhanian, Charles
Cosgrove, Peter
Guthrie, Hammond
Crosley, Max
Beach, Jeff
Sher, Chuck