Tag: Poetry
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Know Your Media Know Your Self
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Toronto Reference Library as part of an excellent series called Treehouse Talks. It was a lovely event, attended by about 100 people and held in the spectacular 5-story atrium of the library. I gave an updated version of the talk that I call Know Your…
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Moses Znaimer – TVTV
Back in 1991 I was hired to write and perform a poem about television for the opening of Moses Znaimer’s 3-hour history of television called TVTV. We shot an amazing sequence in front of MuchMusic with my Poetry Band, which at that time featured trombonist Tom Walsh, drummer Paul Fitterer and bassist Ben Carlsson. Looking…
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Phone Sax
A few days ago I posted a video of a poem of mine called Digital Kiss. Now here is another poem called Phone Sax from that same show at Casa del Popolo in Montreal last September. Again, thanks to Zoe for the videography and once again my apologies for the crunchy sound. I guess that’s…
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Digital Kiss
A few months ago I did a music and poetry gig at Casa el Popolo in Montreal, a club I have previously written about in another post, as part of Ian Ferrier’s Words and Music series. Fortunately Zoe Toupin happened to be there videotaping, and as a result I have now got a few new…
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Improvising Poetry and Our Digital Future
A couple days ago I posted a recording called Where The Bears Go by my duo The John Waynes (so named because it consists of John Sobol (me) and Wayne Kelso). Today I posted a second recording by The John Waynes called The Evil I. For those keeping score, Where The Bears Go is a…
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The Evil I by The John Waynes
The Evil I by The John Waynes John Sobol (vocals) & Wayne Kelso (piano) All words and music in this piece are 100% improvised. No plans, no paper, no second takes. From the unreleased CD TRUCE. Image by Kiyotei Hear Where the Bears Go by The John Waynes Read about Improvised Poetry and Our Digital…
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Where The Bears Go – The John Waynes
Back in 2004, when I was running Digifest, I met an amazing musician and digital artist named Wayne Kelso. One day I went to his studio in the woods and we spent an afternoon improvising music and poetry. Wayne recorded our two 45-minute jam sessions. From those and a few other extended collaborations we extracted…
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Gig at Casa Del Popolo in Montreal Sunday night
Hi all, just wanted to let any Montrealers reading this know that I am doing a show at the Casa del Popolo on St.Laurent tomorrow evening at 8pm as part of the Wired on Words series hosted by poetic comrade Ian Ferrier. Casa del Popolo is a terrific cafe that was expanded recently to include…
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Lintotineh! Bemagatineh! Gesultineh!
A few days ago I had a blast playing with the amazing Alan Gerber, a truly masterful artist who not only writes and sings great songs and plays sensational slide guitar, rocking boogie-woogie piano, folksy fiddle, and fine fingerpicking acoustic guitar, but is also as funny a musician onstage as I’ve ever seen. It’s no…
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John Giorno & R.E.M. Make Love
John Giorno is one of my favourite people on earth and R.E.M. is one of my favourite bands so when I discovered that the last single by R.E.M. features John Giorno I had to share it. John Giorno is an extraordinary person, as full of power and love as any poet alive. I’ve been lucky…
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