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<p><flashmp3 id="01">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_01.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="01">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_01.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_01.mp3|''Prologue: Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_01.mp3|''Prologue: Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork'']] 4' 19" | ||
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<p><flashmp3 id="02">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="02">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3|''Two Guys Get Out of a Car'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3|''Two Guys Get Out of a Car'']] 0' 47" | ||
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<p><flashmp3 id="03">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="03">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3|''Homage to Charles Atlas'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3|''Homage to Charles Atlas'']] 1' 19" | ||
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<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|''Seconds'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3|''Seconds'']] 1' 09" | ||
</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 /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3|''Montana Inventory'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3|''Montana Inventory'']] 1' 32" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="06">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="06">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3|''We Meet, We Try, Nothing Happens'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3|''We Meet, We Try, Nothing Happens, But'']] 1'28" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="07">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="07">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3|''As Mechanical as a Flight of Stairs'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3|''As Mechanical as a Flight of Stairs'']] 1' 26" | ||
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<p><flashmp3 id="08">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="08">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3|I'll affect You Slowly'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3|I'll affect You Slowly'']] 1' 20" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="09">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="09">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3|''They are Really Having Fun'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3|''They are Really Having Fun'']] 6' 06" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="10">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="10">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3|''What Happened?'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3|''What Happened?'']] 1' 44" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="11">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="11">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3|''Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3|''Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts'']] 3' 44" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="12">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="12">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3|''Crow Maiden'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3|''Crow Maiden'']] 3' 10" | ||
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<p><flashmp3 id="13">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="13">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3|''Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3|''Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence'']] 1' 26" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="14">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="14">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3|''Business'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3|''Business'']] 0' 42" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="15">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="15">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3|''Voluntary Quicksand'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3|''Voluntary Quicksand'']] 0' 34" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="16">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="16">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3|''Death Like a Needle'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3|''Death Like a Needle'']] 1' 19" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="17">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="17">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3|''We Were the Eleven O'Clock News'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3|''We Were the Eleven O'Clock News'']] 3' 09" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p><flashmp3 id="18">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | <p><flashmp3 id="18">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3</flashmp3><br /> | ||
[[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3|''Epilogue: The Curve of Forgotten Things'']] | [[Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3|''Epilogue: The Curve of Forgotten Things'']] 2' 54" | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
</div> | </div> |
Revision as of 23:16, 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 4' 19"
<flashmp3 id="02">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_02.mp3</flashmp3>
Two Guys Get Out of a Car 0' 47"
<flashmp3 id="03">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_03.mp3</flashmp3>
Homage to Charles Atlas 1' 19"
<flashmp3 id="04">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_04.mp3</flashmp3>
Seconds 1' 09"
<flashmp3 id="05">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_05.mp3</flashmp3>
Montana Inventory 1' 32"
<flashmp3 id="06">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_06.mp3</flashmp3>
We Meet, We Try, Nothing Happens, But 1'28"
<flashmp3 id="07">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_07.mp3</flashmp3>
As Mechanical as a Flight of Stairs 1' 26"
<flashmp3 id="08">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_08.mp3</flashmp3>
I'll affect You Slowly 1' 20"
<flashmp3 id="09">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_09.mp3</flashmp3>
They are Really Having Fun 6' 06"
<flashmp3 id="10">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_10.mp3</flashmp3>
What Happened? 1' 44"
<flashmp3 id="11">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_11.mp3</flashmp3>
Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts 3' 44"
<flashmp3 id="12">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_12.mp3</flashmp3>
Crow Maiden 3' 10"
<flashmp3 id="13">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_13.mp3</flashmp3>
Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence 1' 26"
<flashmp3 id="14">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_14.mp3</flashmp3>
Business 0' 42"
<flashmp3 id="15">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_15.mp3</flashmp3>
Voluntary Quicksand 0' 34"
<flashmp3 id="16">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_16.mp3</flashmp3>
Death Like a Needle 1' 19"
<flashmp3 id="17">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_17.mp3</flashmp3>
We Were the Eleven O'Clock News 3' 09"
<flashmp3 id="18">Media:Loading_Mercury_with_a_Pitchfork_18.mp3</flashmp3>
Epilogue: The Curve of Forgotten Things 2' 54"