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Belfast, Maine: Island of Culture or Wasteland?
Bern Porter, Rudolph Nashon, and Cathy Nashon
Recorded 4/12/1992 at the home of Rudolph (Rudy) and Cathy Nashon in Belfast, Maine. Porter and the Nashons talk about the social, political, and cultural life of Belfast, Maine. Rudy Nashon, a trumpeter, tries to teach Porter to “play” a conch shell.
Running time: 46:04
Digitized from audio cassette. Title from audio.
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Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove Live Performance Audio
Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove
1. Brunswick, Maine 7/2/1990. At the opening of the Home/Homeless show.
2. Warren, Ohio 4/27/1990. At second Kenneth Patchen Festival; portions of Patchen's "Sleepers Awake."
Digitized from audio cassette.
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Bern Porter Interviewed by Abby Shahn
Bern Porter and Abby Shahn
Digitized from audio cassette. Date of recording unknown. ×
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Bern Porter: Physicist/Artist (Interview)
Bern Porter and Mike Mallett
Bern Porter interviewed by Mike Mallett for radio station KPFK, Los Angeles, California, 1986.
Running time: 48:35
Digitized from audio cassette.
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Jack Saunders to Bern Porter, audio correspondence
Jack Saunders
Physical Description:
Unbranded normal bias cassette tape. Side corresponding to audio side A has label with dot matrix printed text: “Jack Saunders - Mixed Breed”Audio Description:
Saunders' home recording of spoken word correspondence to Porter. Often, live radio broadcast is incorporated. The primary theme is the socioeconomic plight of the artist/writer (often specifically Saunders himself) in contemporary (early 1980s?) U.S. economy and culture.Undated. Circa 1980-1985?
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James Schevill on Bern Porter (KPFA radio broadcast)
James Schevill and Jack Foley
James Schevill on Bern Porter; recorded Oakland 9/30/93; Host: Jack Foley. Recorded for broadcast on KPFA radio, Berkeley, California.
Running time: 31:19
Digitized from audio cassette.
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Music for Children of All Ages Vol. 1
Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove
A compilation of audio tracks, some previously released and some not, spanning the years 1979-1999.
Format: LP phonograph, 33 ⅓ rpm
Running time: approx. 16 minutes per side
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Recorthings 2: Bern Porter & Bob Holman; Aspects of Modern Poetry
Bern Porter and Bob Holman
Recorded broadcast from radio station WBAI (New York, NY).
Porter talks with Holman about contemporary / experimental poetry including “SCI ART,” Founds, artistic “ownership”/plagiarism and the nature of language itself. Holman serves as interviewer, interlocutor, and devil’s advocate. He (Holman) frequently enters performance mode, overlaying (under-laying?) sounds, vocalizations and wordplay onto Porter’s monologues.
Digital recording of two-sided audio cassette. Running time: approximately 47 minutes.
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The Eternal Poetry Festival (25 minutes)
Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove
"Recorded at various locations around the globe for the benefit of all." (from insert) Contents: 1. May All Be Well 2. You Can’t Afford 3. Hail Belfast 4. Shave 5. Daily Regimen 6. Refrigerator Book 7. Hail Syracuse 8. Wood 9. Want Ad Poem 10. Endangered Species Act 11. 3 out of 4 play the Steinway Running time: 25 minutes
Digitized from audio cassette: Memorex HBSII 90
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The Eternal Poetry Festival (61 minutes)
Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove
Audio recording of collaborative spoken poetry by Bern Porter and Mark Melnicove. Date unknown (ca. 1980s-1990s).
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Williamson Street Blues
Bern Porter
Recorded May 19, 1988 in Madison WI on the occasion of Bern's first Wisconsin visit. Recording & live dubbing: Miekal And. Rock version of The Last Acts of St Fuck You engineered by Steve Gassen, Noise & Smoke Studio, Chicago IL.
Side One
1. "The Last Acts of St Fuck You”
2. Hamar Blessing
3. Readings from the Chinese: "From the Most Distant Time" "Written of the Wall at Chang's Hermitage" "Banquet at the Shu Family Manor”
4. "Now & Now”
5. "QEII”
6. "My Life as an Indian”
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The Bern Porter "Miscellany" subcollection encompasses audio, video, maps and sundries.
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