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CO-ACCIDENT
is a multi-eventist, multi-disciplinary group of young artists. Based in Baltimore, Maryland,
the group comprises Alec Bernstein, Kirby Malone, Chris Mason and Marshall
Reese.
Their current work is characterised by the tightly controlled interplay of live and taped
voice, percussion and instrumentation. They have frequently combined with groups of
artists to create large constellations of multi-media sound and language events.
RAOUL LUOAR YAUGUD DUGUAY
Born 13 February 1939, Val d'Or, Abitibi, Quebec. A pan-stylist who moves in and out of
sound poetry, popular songs, folk songs and free jazz, Duguay is Duguay. The author of
numerous books including ruts (Editions Estevel1966), manifeste de l'infonie (Editions
du Jour 1970) and lapokalipso (Editions du Jour 1971 ), he has also released four albums
since 1975, all on Capitol-EM I- Allo Toulmond, L'Envoi, M, and Vivant Avec
Toulllmond. An exceptionally commanding and engaging performer who defies classification.
THE FOUR HORSEMEN
The Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto- Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bp Nichol)
have been performing together for eight years. Their work, generally classified as 'sound
poetry' is a complex mix of several art forms ('intermedia' would be Dick Higgins' term).
With total emphasis on high-energy performance, direct vocal contact with an audience
without the mediafion of microphones; it might be thought to be a sort of bio-energetic
purism, in actual fact their work is a unique combination of popular entertainment and
the avant-garde, indicated best, perhaps, in the extremely diversified audiences they
attract.
As a performance group they have travelled widely across Canada and the United States:
at the Hart House International Festival of Poetry, at the International Symposium on
Post-Modern Performance, Milwaukee, the First West Coast Sound Poetry Festival, San
Francisco and at the annual Canadian Poetry Festival at Blue Mountain, Collingwood.
Interest in the total gamut of collaboration has brought them into performance
collaborations with Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Maclow, Dick Higgins, Joe Rosenblatt
and Murry Schafer. The Four Horsemen have issued two LPs, numerous tapes and video
documentaries of performances. Their interest in syntactic and semantic collaboration in
more conventional modes has led them into a five-year collaborative novel entitled Slow
Dust. 'Among other things, they've helped make it clear how sound poetry isn't a
movement but a new tool available to many kinds of writers, and which any audience can
enjoy. Among other things, they're both deep and delightful.'- Dick Higgins.
Co-Accident
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Raoul Duguay
The Four Horsemen
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