Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies (1997)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press (book, essays, anthology, CD), 1997.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1", 350 pages, softcover with enclosed CD.

Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, n anthology of essays edited by Adalaide Morris, published by The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill) in 1997.

The essay “Voices out of Bodies, Bodies out of Voices” by N. Katherine Hayles contains a section on Burroughs – “The Ticket That Exploded: Tape Recorder as God’s Little Machine”, pp. 86-95.

A CD is included with this book – no Burroughs is on the CD.

Book Contents:

• Adalaide Morris:
• Acknowledgments
• "Introduction: Sound States"
• Part I, Soundings: Radio and Tape Transmissions:
• James A. Connor: "Radio Free Joyce: Wake Language and the Experience of Radio"
• Adalaide Morris: "Sound Technologies and the Modernist Epic: H.D. on the Air"
• Toby Miller and Alec McHoul: "The Radio Intellectual: Specific, General, or Just Wired?"
• N. Katherine Hayles: "Voices out of Bodies, Bodies out of Voices: Audiotape and the Production of Subjectivity"
• Michael Davidson: "Technologies of Presence: Orality and the Tapevoice of Contemporary Poetics"
• Part II, Groundings: Performance/Ritual/Event:
• Marjorie Perloff: "The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's 'What You Say...'"
• Steve McCaffery: "from Phonic to Sonic: The Emergence of the Audio-Poem"
• Loretta Collins: "Rude Bwoys, Riddim, Rub-a-Dub, and Rastas: Systems of Political Dissonance in Carribbean Performative Sounds"
• Nathaniel Mackey: "Cante Moro"
• Fred Moten: "Sound in Florescence: Cecil Taylor Floating Garden"
• Part III, Surroundings: Hearing Theories:
• Garrett Stewart: "Modernism's Sonic Waiver: Literary Writing and the Filmic Difference"
• Jed Rasula: "Poetry's Voice-Over"
• Bibliography
• Sources and Permissions for CD Tracks
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index

CD Contents:

1. James A. Connor: "radio collage"
2. H.D.: "Helen is of course that Helen"
3. H.D.: "In the sanctuary"
4. H.D.: "Much has happened"
5. John Cage: "What You Say..."
6. Bengt af Klintberg: "Calls", 1968
7. F. T. Marinetti: "Bombardamento de Adrianopoli", 1912
8. Hugo Ball: "Gadji Beri Bimba", 1915
9. Christian Morgenstern: "Das grosse Lalula", 1905
10. Paul Scheerbart: "Kikakokú! Ekoralaps!", 1897
11. Raoul Hausmann, "b b b b et F m s b w", 1918
12. Isadore Isou, "Rituel somptueux pour la Selection des Espèces", 1965
13. Aleksei Kruchenykh: "Dyr bul scheyl", 1912; "Kr dei macelli", 1920; "Zanzera, velano", 1922
14. François Dufrene: "Cri-rhythme"
15. Henri Chopin: "Le Ventre de Bertini", 1967
16. Lee "Scratch" Perry: "Well Dread"
17. King Tubby: "A Rougher Version"
18. anthony McNeill: "Ode to Brother Joe"
19. Edward Kamau Brathwaite: "Wings of a Dove"
20. Mutabaruka: "The People's Court"
21. Pastora Pavón: "Ay Pilato"
22. Miles Davis: "Saeta"
23. Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "All Blues"
24. Mississippi Fred McDowell: "Everybody's Down on Me"
25. Mississippi Fred McDowell: "Jesus Is on the Mainline"
26. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: "The Business Ain't Nothin' but the Blues"
27. [Iranian singer]: "Love Song"
28. Sonny Rollins: "East Broadway Rundown"
29. Cecil Taylor: "Chinampas"