Difference between revisions of "Nichols Collection 0005"
Gongmaster (talk | contribs) |
Gongmaster (talk | contribs) |
||
Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="04">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="04">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3|'' | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3|''Seconds'']] | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="05">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="05">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3</flashmp3><br /> |
Revision as of 23:10, 7 July 2012
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (A Song Cycle on Poems by Richard Brautigan)
- Gene Nichols. Text by Richard Brautigan
- Various media
- Performed by Gene Nichols with the Neoteric Ensemble
- April 17, 1981
- Northern Illinois University
- Music © 1981 Gene Nichols, text © 1971 Richard Brautigan
- Collection of Gene Nichols
- The second half of 1981's April 17 program was given over to these interpretations of Brautigan's 1971 poem collection Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. Each segment is a separate poem, which we'll name properly after consulting Gene's copious notes.
- Please contact us with more information about this work or the performance itself.
<flashmp3 id="01">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_01.mp3</flashmp3>
Prologue: Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
<flashmp3 id="02">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3</flashmp3>
Two Guys Get Out of a Car
<flashmp3 id="03">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3</flashmp3>
Homage to Charles Atlas
<flashmp3 id="04">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3</flashmp3>
Seconds
<flashmp3 id="05">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3</flashmp3>
Montana Inventory
<flashmp3 id="06">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3</flashmp3>
We Meet, We Try, Nothing Happens
<flashmp3 id="07">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3</flashmp3>
As Mechanical as a Flight of Stairs
<flashmp3 id="08">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3</flashmp3>
I'll affect You Slowly
<flashmp3 id="09">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3</flashmp3>
They are Really Having Fun
<flashmp3 id="10">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3</flashmp3>
What Happened?
<flashmp3 id="11">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3</flashmp3>
Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts
<flashmp3 id="12">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3</flashmp3>
Crow Maiden
<flashmp3 id="13">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3</flashmp3>
Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence
<flashmp3 id="14">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3</flashmp3>
Business
<flashmp3 id="15">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3</flashmp3>
Voluntary Quicksand
<flashmp3 id="16">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3</flashmp3>
Death Like a Needle
<flashmp3 id="17">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3</flashmp3>
We Were the Eleven O'Clock News
<flashmp3 id="18">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3</flashmp3>
Epilogue: The Curve of Forgotten Things