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Caroline Bergvall 1. Via 2. About Face Notes VIA (48 Dante Variations) is a compiled list of translations into English of Dante's opening lines. As archived in the British Library up until May 2000. 700 years after the date set for the start of the journey into Hell. The Journey was timed to start and end in 1300. And Dante's 35th year or so-called point of mid-life. Recorded and composed with Ciáran Maher (Summer 2000). The full text has been featured in CHAIN's "Transluccinacion" issue (Autumn 2003). ABOUT FACE. This text started as a performance for the Liminal Institute Festival in Berlin in 1999. I had just had a painful tooth pulled out and could read neither very clearly nor very fast. Tape players with German and English conversations on the text were circulated among the audience. It took 45 minutes to perform the materials. For its 2nd showing at Bard College, I speeded up the tapes, transcribed the snaps of half-heard materials, and integrated these to the performing voice. The reading presented here took place in 2002 at the 2nd Anderson festival, Devon UK, curated by Nicholas Johnson. By now, it took 10 minutes to read. A version of the opening section is featured at the Electronic Poetry review #6 http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue6/text/cnotes/cb.htm Another short section is featured at the British Electronic Poetry Centre http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poems/bergvall_1.htm Studio 111 & KWH recording & interview at the University of Pennsylvania, April 6, 2005 Kelly Writers House Reading:
Studio 111 interview with Penn students, hosted by Charles Bernstein (41:15) Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, February 12, 2011
Reading for Double Change, Paris, April 14, 2010
PhonoFemme Festival of Sound Art, Vienna, April 2009 Invocation (after Ingeborg Bachmann) [with Zahra Mani] (4:23): MP3 Appearing on Ceptuetics Radio, hosted by Kareem Estefan, June 4, 2008 Complete Reading (30:52): MP3 Reading for Double Change, Paris, May 23, 2007
Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode #143, "Sound, System, Performance," with host Leonard Schwartz, June 10, 2007
SHORTER CHAUCER TALES (2006) These four pieces by Caroline Bergvall use the rich and entertaining setting of Chaucer’s medieval pilgrimage of The Canterbury Tales for pointed or humourous commentaries on aspects of today’s corruptions, pleasures, and blindspots. The texts are written in a mix of languages and feast on a weird and ill-assorted Euro-lingo: contemporary English co-exists with French, Middle English, some lost Latin, some altogether untraceable words, while direct quotes from Chaucer interrupt the BBC and other sources.
Invited by Charles Bernstein and David Wallace and premiered at Fifteenth Annual Conference of the New Chaucer Society, Lincoln Center, NY, 28 July 2006. Co-sponsored by Poets House. This recording: London, 22 Sept 2006. These four pieces are the first four of an ongoing journey and other pieces are in preparation. The Summer Tale, printed text, Jacket #31 (Oct. 06)  Rockdrill 8
Reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mont Blanc," from Romantic Circles Web, 2005 (Accompanied with music by Mario Diaz de Leon, "Pervaded with that Ceaseless Motion") Complete Reading (9:17): MP3 Reading of Ambient Fish for Frequency Audio Journal, 2004 Issue Complete Reading (2:52): MP3 A reading of About Face at the 2nd Anderson Festival, Devon, United Kingom, 2004 Complete Reading (10:17:) MP3 Text of part of the poem at Electronic Poetry Review and BEPC; working draft of poem at How(ever) This text started as a performance for the Liminal Institute Festival in Berlin in 1999. I had just had a painful tooth pulled out and could read neither very clearly nor very fast. Tape players with German and English conversations on the text were circulated among the audience. It took 45 minutes to perform the materials. For its 2nd showing at Bard College, I speeded up the tapes, transcribed the snaps of half-heard materials, and integrated these to the performing voice. The reading was curated by Nicholas Johnson. By now, it took 10 minutes to read. Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, Nov. 9, 2002 Complete Reading (28:40): MP3 A recording of Via with Ciáran Maher, Summer 2000 Complete Recording (10:00): MP3 Via (48 Dante variations) is a compiled list of translations into English of Dante's opening lines as archived in the British Library up until May 2000, 700 years after the date set for the start of the journey into Hell. The Journey was timed to start and end in 1300. And Dante's 35th year or so-called point of mid-life. The full text has been featured in CHAIN's "Transluccinacion" issue (Autumn 2003). Segue Series Reading at the Double Happiness, November 18, 2000 Complete Reading (27:44): MP3 Caroline Bergvall on PennSound Daily
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