NOTES ON THESE RECORDINGS
LATEST UPDATES / 2024: Cole Heinowitz, Hudson River subaquatics (Chris Funkhouser)
2023: Eugene Chadbourne / Jim McHugh, Chuck Stein, Jim Dunn, Marilyn Crispell / Mark Dresser / Gerry Hemingway, Eyelids, Elliot Sharp / Eric Mingus
Fall 2022: Simone White, Arooj Aftab, Nathaniel Mackey with Henry Grimes, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Marilyn Crispell, Iva Bittová, body/head, Steve Dalachinsky, Robyn Hitchcock, Chris Ide, Robert Kelly, Gerard Malanga, Thurston Moore Group, Fred Moten, Tamas Panitz and Robert Kelly, Ed Roberson, Jerome Rothenberg, David Shapiro, Cedar Sigo, Tribalistas.
NOTE ON MIGRATION OF FILES FROM SOUNDBOX TO PENNSOUND: Several recordings that initially appeared in this archive are now included on PennSound. Follow these links to recordings of Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, Kamau Brathwaite, Johanna Drucker, Nathaniel Mackey, Ed Sanders, and more. Selections listed in the pull down menu are presented in chonological order, with most recent recordings first. Here is an annotated index of authors/artists whose works can be found in this archive.
All recordings made by Chris Funkhouser, unless otherwise noted. Since 2010 I have used portable recorders (Roland R-05 and Roland R-26 mainly) as well as Ableton Live software to make documentary and studio recordings. Prior to that time I used MiniDisc, DAT, and cassettes to make recordings. I cannot guarantee that all of the information below is 100% correct, but I have done my best to recall what happened, where and when these recordings transpired.
2020s
Cole Heinowitz reading at Famiiar Trees, Great Barrington, NY / 25 May 2024
Subaquatic Hudson River soundscape (excerpt) by Chris Funkhouser made with Aquabeat Hydrophone microphone, Staatsburg, NY / 14 March 2024
Eugene Chadbourne and Jim McHugh performing at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY / 14 September 2023
Chuck Stein and Jim Dunn reading at Shivastan Poetry Ashram, Woodstock, NY / 12 August 2023
Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway playing Anthony Braxton's compositions at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT / 7 July 2023
Opening songs of Eyelids' set at Cafe Nine (bootleg), New Haven, CT (recorded on iPhone) / 19 March 2023
Elliot Sharp and Eric Mingus, "This is a Message from a Rogue State" recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT / 16 February 2023 (bootleg; not a great recording, but the energy of it is there... buy the album the song appears on!)
Simone White, "I am not Wallace Stevens" recorded at Hartford Public Library, Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, CT / 5 November 2022
Arooj Aftab / Maeve Gilchrist recorded at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence, MA / 28 October 2022
Dinosaur Jr. recorded in Hartford, CT (bootleg) / 8 September 2022 (for pic of setlist click here).
Bush Tetras recorded in Kingston, NY (bootleg) / 23 July 2022
Most Serene Congress (Leonard Nevarez, David Hirmes, Chris Funkhouser), May Day performance at the home of Abigail Child and Robert Withers, Staatsburg, NY / 2022
2010s
Ed Sanders recorded at the opening of his Glyph Show, Mothership Gallery, Woodstock, NY / 3 December 2019
Robert Kelly recorded at Bard College, annual birthday reading for Charlotte, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 21 November 2019
Jerome Rothenberg at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 2 October 2019
Iva Bittová house concert for/with Zingora School, Rhinebeck, NY / 13 July 2019
Tribalistas recorded at Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY (bootleg) / February 2019
Hudsonics set one includes Cole Heinowitz, William Staples, Timothy Liu, Matthew Morse, Vladimir Nahitchevansky; Hudsonics set two includes George Quasha with Charles Stein, Michael Ruby with Nancy Graham, Sam Truitt, Matthew Morse, Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY / 23 February 2019
Severely Brothers is a band organized by photographer/musician/poet Tim Davis; this set was recorded at the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga, NY / 6 December 2018
Robyn Hitchcock recorded at Colony, Woodstock, NY (1st set; bootleg) / 14 November 2018
Cedar Sigo recorded at Brothers in Elysium, Tivoli, NY / 11 October 2018
Ed Roberson recorded at the Mackey Sessions, Durham, NC / 20 September 2018
Fred Moten recorded at the Mackey Sessions, Durham, NC / 20 September 2018
Steven Taylor, with band, recorded at HiLo, Catskill, NY / 8 August 2018
Elkhorn, a band led by poet Drew Gardner, recorded at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY / 26 July 2018
Body/Head recorded at BSP, Kingston, NY / 20 July 2018
Samantha Hunt recorded at Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY / 10 July 2018
David Shapiro recorded at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY / 2 June 2018
Monks of Doom recorded at BSP, Kingston, NY / 24 May 2018
Tamas Panitz and Robert Kelly recorded in Tivoli, NY / 12 May 2018
Beth Lisick recorded at Writers in the Mountains Festival, Union Grove Distillery, Arkville, NY / 29 April 2018
Andy Clausen recorded at Dutchess County College, Poughkeepsie, NY / 29 March 2018
Eugene Chadbourne recorded at Quinn's, Beacon, NY (1st set) / 11 February 2018
Eileen Myles recorded at Soundscape, Basilica, Hudson, NY / 15 September 2017
Gerard Malanga recorded at Colony Woodstock, book release for Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems, Woodstock, NY / 9 June 2017
Steve Dalachinsky recorded at Lace Mill Gallery, Kingston, NY / 7 May 2017
Andy Clausen recorded at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY / 5 January 2017; Clausen's BLINDLEMONPOZOR&THELEMONADE was released on cassette by We Press (1991)
Pamela Twining recorded at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY / 5 January 2017
Thatcher Keats recorded at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY / 5 January 2017
Chuck Stein recorded at Mothership Gallery, Woodstock, NY / 22 November 2016
Eugene Chadbourne recorded at Quinn's, Beacon, NY (2nd set) / 16 October 2016
Andy Clausen recorded at Mothership Gallery, Woodstock, NY / 9 May 2016
Fred Moten recorded at The Whitney Museum, Cecil Taylor Open Plan exhibit, New York, NY / 22 April 2016
Nathaniel Mackey with Henry Grimes recorded at The Whitney Museum, Cecil Taylor Open Plan exhibit, New York, NY / 21 April 2016
Bernadette Mayer recorded for the Poetry Foundation at WGXC, Hudson, NY 21 January 2016
Chris Funkhouser, Alvaro Seica, Laura Warman and Amelia Winger-Bearskin (plus open mic), WorkHack/Babycastles, New York City / 15 October 2015
Pierre Joris recorded at Hudson Opera House (now Hudson Hall) / 13 September 2015
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge recorded at 'T' Space, Rhinebeck, NY / 5 September 2015
Charles Bernstein recorded at Bard College, with Erica Kaufman introduction, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY/ 14 July 2015
Nathaniel Mackey recorded at the Vision Festival, Judson Church, New York City / 7 July 2015
Henry Grimes and Amina Claudine Myers recorded at the Vision Festival, Judson Church, New York City / 7 July 2015
Roscoe Mitchell trios and combos recorded at the Vision Festival, Judson Church, New York City / 7 July 2015
Jonathan Skinner recorded at Olana (Wagon House), Hudson, NY / 22 March 2015
Johanna Drucker recorded at Interrupt Festival, Brown University, Providence, RI / 14 March 2015
Bernadette Mayer recorded at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 9 March 2015; I wish she had read much longer!
Clark Coolidge performing with Charles Stein and George Quasha recorded at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 9 March 2015
Clark Coolidge recorded at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 9 March 2015
Deborah Poe recorded at Olana (Wagon House), Hudson, NY / 8 March 2015
Marilyn Crispell (accompanied by Chuck Stein, Iva Bittová, David Rothenberg) recorded at Colony Woodstock 30 December 2014
Robert Kelly recorded at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY / 22 November 2014
Stephen Cope, home studio recording, Rhinebeck, NY / 26 August 2014
Yogurt Boys, featuring Todd Colby and Marianne Vitale, Brenda Coultas, Cecilia Vicuña, Edwin Torres, Bruce Andrews with Sally Silvers and Pooh Haye, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Dana Ward, CA Conrad, and Anne Gorrick and Edwin Torres (introduction) all recorded at Subterranean Poetry Festival, Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY / 24 August 2014
Charles Stein, along with Megan Hastie (piano), recorded at Stein's 70th birthday reading, Barrytown, NY / 23 August 2014
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Michael Brownstein, and Sparrow recorded at the Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY / 16 August 2014
Michael Bisio, Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte recorded at Don Byrd's 70th birthday gathering, Lowlands Bar, Brooklyn, NY / 26 April 2014
Chris Funkhouser performance at Electronic Literature Organization MLA Offsite reading recorded at Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL / 10 January 2014
Chris Funkhouser, work from Polar Vorticism series, recorded at Girassol, Frelinghuysen, NJ / February
MLA Offsite reading with Abraham Avnisan, Leonardo Flores, Dene Grigar, Marjorie Luesebrink, Judd Morrissey, Scott Rettberg, Stephanie Strickland, Zach Whalen, Roger Whitson, & Rob Wittig recorded at Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL / 10 January 2014
Electronic Literature after Flash roundtable at Modern Language Association convention, with Mark Sample, Chris Funkhouser, Dene Grigar, Zach Whalen, Mark Marino, Leonardo Flores, Stuart Moulthrop, recorded at MLA convention, Chicago, IL / 11 January 2014
Eugenio Tisselli recorded at Girassol, Frelinghutsen, NJ / 15 February 2014
Rickie Lee Jones (bootleg) recorded at the Historic Blairstown Theatre, Blairstown, NJ / 12 October 2013
The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Steven Taylor, Coby Batty, Scott Petito) recorded at Tuli Kupferberg's 90th birthday celebration, Sidewalk Café, New York City / 28 September 2013
John Cayley presentation at the 2012 Electronic Literature Organization conference/festival recorded in Morgantown, WV / 23 June 2012
Electronic Literature Collection 2 launch (featuring works by Oni Buchanan, Jhave Johnston, Illya Szilak, Sandy Baldwin, Stephanie Strickland, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, & Paul Ryan recorded at The Kitchen, New York City / 13 December 2011
Amiri and Amina Baraka with Blue Ark recorded at Skipper’s Pub, Newark, NJ / 26 January 2010
2000s
Gary Sullivan and Bill Luoma recorded at The Poetry Project, New York City / 25 February 2009
Patricia Tomaszek, "about nothing, places, memories, and thoughts: robert creeley (1926-2005) and patricia tomaszek" recorded at the International E-Poetry festival, Barcelona, Spain / May 2009
Patricia Tomaszek, "about nothing, places, memories, and thoughts: robert creeley (1926-2005) and patricia tomaszek" recorded at Reading Digital Literature conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, / October 2007
Ted Nelson recorded at Codework (National Science Foundation Workshop), West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV / April 2008
Andy Clausen Girassol session recorded to MiniDisc on my 40th birthday, Frelinghuysen, NJ / 26 June 2004
Lee Ann Brown Girassol session, Frelinghuysen, NJ / 22 May 2004
Alan Sondheim recorded at the International E-Poetry festival, 123 Pleasant, Morgantown, WV / 23 April 2003
1990s
Bob Holman and Ed Sanders Q&A session recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / May 1997)
Ted Nelson keynote address recorded at Hypertext '97, Southampton, UK / 10 April 1997
Jim Rosenberg recorded at Sub-voicive reading series, London, UK / 11 April 1997
Chris Funkhouser / James Keepnews "Sculpting in Time" radio performance on WRPI, Troy, NY / 30 June 1997
Nancy Dunlop and Don Byrd recorded at SUNY-Albany / 4 April 1997
Lori Anderson (Moseman) recorded in Albany, NY / Spring 1997
Cecil Taylor, poetry reading (with David Henderson) recorded at St. Mark's Church / 12 March 1997; Cecil read with David Henderson; I have some of David's reading too, but not yet in digital form.
Lee Ann Brown recorded in Albany, NY / 24 April 1997
Tom Raworth recorded in Albany, NY / 1996
Ben Friedlander, Stephen Rodefer, Tony Lopez recorded in Great Barrington, MA / Fall 1996
Nathaniel Mackey recorded at SUNY-Buffalo, NY / 18 April 1996
Anne Waldman reading recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / 14 November 1996
Anne Waldman seminar recorded at SUNY-Albany / 14 November 1996
Bob Perelman recorded at Siena College, Loudenville, NY / April 1995
Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / Spring 1995
Rae Armantrout recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / February 1995
Will Alexander studio session, Los Angeles, CA / January 1995
Alice Notley presentation recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / October 1995
In 1995 Belle Gironda, Ben Henry, & I co-edited The Little Magazine, Vol. 21 on CD-ROM. I made many of the digital recordings (DAT) for that project. Though the CD-ROM is essentially inoperable, I was able to locate the media files on the disc & here present recordings, mostly made in Albany (1995), by Sandy Baldwin, Lori Anderson (Moseman), Ben Friedlander (Buffalo), Nancy Dunlop/Kurt Lohr, Robert Grenier, Pierre Joris, Trudy Morse, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Nicole Peyrafitte, Purkinge (Funkhouser/Gironda/Baldwin/Eric Douglas), Jed Rasula, Stephan Said, Chuck Stein, Chris Stroffolino, Katie Yates, and Lee Ann Brown.
Cecil Taylor musical performance with group recorded at Village Vanguard, first set / 1 April 1995. I was making a recording of Cecil's 2nd set at the Vanguard that night when a waitress confiscated the tape from me; she had been tipped off by a Cornell University music prof (who I had actually met before, when Cecil was in residence there), who told her I was making an unauthorized recording. Somehow I managed to convince her I hadn't recorded the first set! Afterwards, Cecil told me they had given the tape to him, & he was glad to have it!
Tom Raworth with Clark Coolidge and David Meltzer recorded by Lee Ann Brown in West Stockbridge, MA / March 1995
Lawrence Ferlinghetti recorded at Page Hall, SUNY-Albany, NY / Fall 1994
Allen Ginsberg seminar recorded at Columbia-Green Community College / 22 April 1997; one of the best recordings I ever made is of Ginsberg's reading that night, which is available via PennSound.
Purkinge recorded at Word of Mouth, Cambridge, MA / August 1994
Maggie Estep performance recorded at Lollapalooza Festival's Revival Tent, Saratoga Springs, NY / 2 August 1994
Katie Yates with Kurt Lohr and John Malboeuf recorded live at/on WRPI, Troy, NY / Winter 1994; this recording may have previously been released on cassette by Boog Lit.
Lee Ann Brown recorded in The Berkshires / 1993
Ed's Redeeming Qualities recorded at Lincoln Street house (backyard), Santa Cruz, CA / 15 August 1993
Bloodtest recorded at Lincoln Street house (backyard), Santa Cruz, CA / August 1993
Valentine's Day reading recorded at The Poetry Project / February 1993
Tom Raworth reading and discussion recorded in Albany, NY / 1993
mIEKAL aND, liz was, Chris Funkhouser, Liazon Wakest improvisation recorded on State St., Albany, NY after the New Coast Festival / April 1993
Trudy Morse recorded at Lincoln Street house (backyard), Santa Cruz, CA / 15 August 1993
H.D. Moe recorded at Lincoln Street house (backyard), Santa Cruz, CA / August 1993
Brenda Shaughnessy recorded at Lincoln Street house (backyard), Santa Cruz, CA / August 1993
Michael Weaver and Chris Stroffolino featured on WRPI Clear Spot radio program / July 1993
John M. Bennett Coruscation Drain cassette / 1993
Joseph Donahue recorded at USCS, Santa Cruz, CA / May 1992
Joseph Donahue recorded on KUSP (Tanganyika Strut), Santa Cruz, CA / May 1992
We Magazine Issue XVI cassette / Summer 1992
Michael McClure with Ray Manzarek recorded at Pacific Cultural Center, Santa Cruz, CA / January 1992
We Magazine issue xv / Spring 1992; use this link for detailed information (liner notes) for We Magazine Issue 11 and xv
Francisco X. Alarcón and Elba Sanchez reading De Amor Oscuro, Santa Cruz, CA / Spring 1992
Robert Hunter recorded at Pacific Cultural Center, Santa Cruz, CA / January 1992
Francisco X. Alarcón and Santa Cruz Rhythmagics recorded at Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA / Spring 1991; recorded at We Magazine Issue 14 CD release party.
H.D. Moe recording session with thelemonade (Cope, Daegling, Funkhouser) at Lincoln Street house, Santa Cruz, CA / Winter 1991
thelemonade's "Just Do It" recorded as part of the antonio sessions, August 1991, produced by Steven Taylor; Stephen Cope (guitar), Karl Daegling (drums & digeridoo sample), Chris Funkhouser (vocal).
Andy Clausen recording of "The Bear" with thelemonade, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA / 2 May 1991; recorded at We Magazine Issue 14 CD release party.
Andy Clausen, BLIND LEMON POZOR & THELEMONADE, recorded at Aarvark Studios / December 1990; see http://www.wepress.org/soundbox/audio/clausen.html for details.
1980s
Wrestling Worms (Alex Candelaria, guitar; Graham Connah, keys; Eric Curkendall, vocals; Karl Daegling, bass; Rich West, drums) final concert recorded at Cafe Cameleon, Santa Cruz, CA / 16 December 1989
Jonathan Segel's band (Segel on guitar, violin, vocal; Mark Landsman, bass; Sean Kennerly, guitar; Tom Yoder, trombone; Dave Shamrock, drums) recorded at Cafe Camelon, Santa Cruz, CA / 16 December 1989
Chris Ide recorded at Penny Lane, Boulder, CO / July 1989
We Magazine Issue 11 (cassette) released Summer 1989; use this link for detailed information (liner notes) for We Magazine Issue 11 and xv.
Geof Huth cassette letter circa 1989, partly a submission to We Magazine audio edition.
David Cope, Steven Taylor, Steve Silberman, and others, tuning Campion late at night (with an appearance by Allen Ginsberg), recorded at Varsity Townhouses, Boulder, CO / July 1987
Howard Is (Terry Bailey, Brian Chidley, Chris Funkhouser, Gaither Pratt) recorded in Charlottesville, VA / May 1987
Love Tractor WTJU station IDs recorded at the Mineshaft, Charlottesville, VA / 1985
Salem 66 interviewed Bob Bradley and Chris Funkhouser (for WTJU) after a set at Rockitz, Richmond, VA / 5 June 1985
A number of recordings I've made over the years can be found on this page and other places at PennSound.
I started doing a radio program, POET RAY'D YO, on WGXC (90.7FM Hudson/Acra/Catskill NY; wgxc.org) in Fall 2015. The archive includes every monthly show. Guests on the program (and subjects featured) include: Lucio Agra, Francisco X. Alarcón, Will Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Steve Benson, Charles Bernstein, Kamau Brathwaite, Dawn Breeze, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lee Ann Brown, Don Byrd, Azure Carter, John Cayley, Andy Clausen, CA Conrad, Stephen Cope, Brenda Coultas, Maria Damon, Tim Davis, Brandon Downing, Nancy Dunlop, Marcella Durand, Ben Friedlander, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Good, Nada Gordon, Anne Gorrick, Lee Gough, Cole Heinowitz, Langston Hughes, David Jhave Johnston, Pierre Joris, Michael Joyce, Erica Kaufman, Robert Kelly, Kush, Richard Loranger, Nathaniel Mackey, Bernadette Mayer, Michael McClure/Ray Manzarek, Sharon Mesmer, Shiv Mirabito, H.D. Moe, Lori Anderson Moseman, Fred Moten, Carrie Bradley Neves, Tamas Panitz, Wanda Phipps, Kristin Prevallet, Patrick Pritchett, George Quasha, Joan Retallack, David Rothenberg, Jerome Rothenberg, Douglas Rothschild, Michael Ruby, Ed Sanders, Satan’s Black Acid, Alan Sondheim, Charles Stein, Cecil Taylor, Edwin Torres, Sam Truitt, Pamela Twining, Cat Tyc, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Anne Waldman, Margaret Walker, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Rebecca Wolff, Workers Writers School.
Special thanks to Jim Andrews, who helped me devise the HTML5/javascript engine that makes this thing work as it does.
contact: ctfunkhouser@gmail.com with inquiries, complaints, comments, corrections, &c.
formerly archived here (see top of page for new links):
Amiri Baraka Dodge Poetry Festival lecture and panel presentation location was Waterloo Village, Byrum, NJ (19 September 2002); Press Conference and Speech location was Newark Public Library / 02 October 2002; "Somebody Blew Up America" recorded at Baraka’s home / Summer 2003
Charles Bernstein recorded at Banff Art Centre during In(ter)ventions—Literary Practice At The Edge: A Gathering / February 2010
Kamau Brathwaite recorded during the Between Caliban and Sycorax: Kamau Brathwaite and Caribbean Culture symposium, NYU / December 2000
Johanna Drucker at Princeton, Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines and Digital Archives conference / 25 October 2013
Nathaniel Mackey seminar recorded at SUNY-Albany, NY / April 1994
Nathaniel Mackey reading recorded in Woodstock, NY / November 1993
mIEKAL aND, liz was, Liazon Wakest recorded at The New Coast Festival, SUNY-Buffalo (March 1993). I have made mp3s of the entire proceedings of the festival, though they haven't been made available yet. My New Coast recordings are now available via this link.