WORKS ON PAPER: EXPERIMENTS IN LANGUAGE & SOUND PRESENTS MARK SO
Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR, United StatesWorks on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound presents an evening of tapes, readings, and text-objects by MARK SO Saturday, May 6 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm, come and go as you wish $10-20 suggested donation; no one turned away Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660 503-388-7665 ======================================= A six-hour multichannel playback of So’s experimental taped through-reading of John Ashbery's booklength poem Flow Chart provides a lively scrim for several discrete but related nucleii of his work to appear and coincide: • a group of his Ashbery scores which composer Manfred Werder performed for a month at a time, marked only by his sparse overtyping and occasional polaroids • several typescripts from late in the Ashbery series, no longer scores but radical transcriptions of…