My Ottawa Includes (11th in series)
ordinarily, this series is photographs of Ottawaän oddities – which principle is not abandoned here except in a kind of invert way in that, for one thing, it's obviously not a photograph, &, for another it's a flyer for a performance in august 1983 by Owen Sound (Michael Dean, Steven [Ross] Smith & Richard Truhlar) as part of the Ottawa Poetry Festival's Wordfest at the Jack Purcell Centre (where the small press fair is now again held), which proves to me that Ottawa has most definitely been exposed to sound poetry in the past (& certainly Four Horsemen must've performed here previous to this) & can be said to've had consistent (if sporadic) exposure to extralinear literature since at latest the early 197os (Oberon was publishing bpNichol in 197o).
i've said this before in various places, no doubt, but My Toronto Included quite regular exposure to such material & the seeming complete absence of such practices when i first moved to Ottawa was cultureshocking. as per usual, i brought my own praxis & archive along with me so My Ottawa Included it but it wasn't until Max Middle in the late'9os/early 2ooos that anyone local really went too far beyond standardized "experiment", despite this consistent exposure to things beyond gradeschool.
on a personal note, it's of interest to see that Owen Sound were performing Contract & "More Glass on the Beach" (in a 2-part program of 13 works (including a "Historical Sound Poems" section)), both of which have been performed by the latest incarnation of the Quatuor Gualuor (Glass has been a repertoire work in development since Messagio Galore take VII in 2o11).
programme designed by Michael Dean.
My Ottawa Includes (11th in series)
ordinarily, this series is photographs of Ottawaän oddities – which principle is not abandoned here except in a kind of invert way in that, for one thing, it's obviously not a photograph, &, for another it's a flyer for a performance in august 1983 by Owen Sound (Michael Dean, Steven [Ross] Smith & Richard Truhlar) as part of the Ottawa Poetry Festival's Wordfest at the Jack Purcell Centre (where the small press fair is now again held), which proves to me that Ottawa has most definitely been exposed to sound poetry in the past (& certainly Four Horsemen must've performed here previous to this) & can be said to've had consistent (if sporadic) exposure to extralinear literature since at latest the early 197os (Oberon was publishing bpNichol in 197o).
i've said this before in various places, no doubt, but My Toronto Included quite regular exposure to such material & the seeming complete absence of such practices when i first moved to Ottawa was cultureshocking. as per usual, i brought my own praxis & archive along with me so My Ottawa Included it but it wasn't until Max Middle in the late'9os/early 2ooos that anyone local really went too far beyond standardized "experiment", despite this consistent exposure to things beyond gradeschool.
on a personal note, it's of interest to see that Owen Sound were performing Contract & "More Glass on the Beach" (in a 2-part program of 13 works (including a "Historical Sound Poems" section)), both of which have been performed by the latest incarnation of the Quatuor Gualuor (Glass has been a repertoire work in development since Messagio Galore take VII in 2o11).
programme designed by Michael Dean.