The 12th International Sound Poetry Festival (1980)

Published by Recital, California
Cardboard box 25 x 16 x 4 cm. containing:
- Book containing biographies, texts, and artwork
  from each artist supplements the edition, including
  program notes by Charlie Morrow and Sean McCann
  pp. 236, 22.5 x 15 cm.
- Four audiotapes


Audio program note:

Audiotape 1 - Side A
- Sten Hanson, "Introduction", No. PVM5423
   Length: 03'30''
- Carles Santos , "To-Ca-Ti-Co-To-Ca-T"
   Length: 04'36''
- Carles Santos, "Conversa"
   Length: 05'06''
- Jackson Mac Low, "Hunger Strike What Does Life Mean"
   Length: 08'37'', No. PVM5524
- Greta Monach, "Fonergon 79-5: Otto the Rhino on the Fitti-Hooli-Islands in the Benga-Sea"
   Length: 18'03''
Audiotape 1 - Side B
- Bernard Heidsieck, "Poeme-Partition A", No. PVM0375
  Length: 11'11''
- Bernard Heidsieck, "Sisyphe (passepartout 25)", No. PVM0363
   Length: 04'53''
- Bernard Heidsieck, "Democratie II (passepartout 27)", No. PVM0386
   Length: 07'25''
- Katalin Ladik, "Untitled", No. PVM5625
   Length: 07'17''
- Jerome Rothenberg, "First Horse-Song for 4 Voices"
   Length: 08'39''

Audiotape 2 -  Side A
- Mary Ellen Solt, "U.S.A.", No. PVM5726
  Length: 05''36''
- John Giorno, "Put Your Ear to Stone and Open Your Heart to the Sky", No. PVM5837
  Length: 18'50''
Audiotape 2 -  Side B
- Armand Schwerner & Charles Stein, "A piece for 2 Bflat clarinets and voices"
  Length: 05'13''
- Beth Anderson, "Six Stories In Sequence"
  Length: 05'41''
- Charles Amirkhanian, "Dreams Freud Dreamed"
  Length: 05'38''
- Richard Kostelanetz, "Turfs", No. PVM5928
  Length: 06'50''
- Franz Kamin, "Kathy’s By The Oceanside"
  Length: 09'14''
- Intermission
  Length: 02'20''

Audiotape 3 -  Side A
- Michael Gibbs, "ABOUT THE BOOK, THE READER & THE WRITER"
  Length: 17:48
- Michael Gibbs, "Tome Tones"
  Length: 02'53''
- The Four Horsemen, "Mayakovsky"
   Length: 03'37''
- The Four Horsemen, "Air Blind"
   Length: 04'12''
- Adriano Spatola, "Ocarina", No. PVM6029
  Length: 04'09''
- Adriano Spatola, "Al Capone Poem", No. PVM1244
  Length: 01'51''
- Adriano Spatola, "Aviation Aviateur", No. PVM6130
  Length: 04'47''
- Paula Claire, "JETAKEOFF"
  Length: 01'03''
- Paula Claire, "Popcorn"
  Length: 04'08''
Audiotape 3 -  Side B
- Sten Hanson, "How Are You?", No. PVM6233
   Length: 03'03''
- Sten Hanson, "Au 197.0", No. PVM3377
  Length: 06'07''
- Charlie Morrow & Glen Velez – Entrance Music & Bows
  Length: 05'21''
- Larry Wendt – Earthworm (excerpt)
  Length: 10'34''
- Nina Yankowitz, "Personae Mimicking or Voices from the Piano"
  Length: 07'42''
- Robert Joseph & Pier Van Dijk, "Untitled"
  Length: 11'59''

Audiotape 4 - Side A
- Alison Knowles, "Fishes of the Philippine Seas", No. FXM3256
  Length: 27'23''
- Bern Porter, "George (Ode to Friendship)"
  Length: 01:37
Audiotape 4 - Side B
- P. Clive Fencott, "His Dexter Daylight Utterly Darkened"
  Length: 10'42''
- Bob Cobbing, "Sha Ma Na", No. PVM6565
  Length: 04'30''
- Bob Cobbing, "Statue of Liberty Suite", No. PVM6566
  Length: 06'11''
- Ocarina Orchestra, "Forest"
  Length: 07'17''
- John Beaulieu, "Channel"
  Length: 11'20''

The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival, held in New York in 1980,
was the last festival of the pioneering series, first started in Stockholm in the 1960s.