[New-Poetry] Mac Low influenced young OK sound poets

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_http://hub.ou.edu/articles/article.php?article_id=1712033609&search_id=202997
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(http://hub.ou.edu/articles/article.php?article_id=1712033609&search_id=2029973675) 
Student  poets spout ‘Subterranean’-style sounds
By Ryan Daly • The Oklahoma  Daily    
Posted 9:24 p.m., May 2, 2007 
 

The Jacobson House was packed. The audience, which ranged  from  aging 
intellectuals in slacks and blazers to college students in flip-flops,  listened 
attentively to instructions issued from five students standing at the  front of 
the small room.
 
The crowd looked pensively for a moment at brightly colored sheets of paper  
that had been passed out before the performance. The papers were filled 
with  words, from inanimate objects to expletives. Slowly at first, then 
gradually  building momentum and dissolving to utter chaos, the performers and 
audience  began reading the words, enunciating each carefully.
 
The group is Sound Lab. 
...
“We incorporate a lot of the [beat poets] as a jumping-off point, but our  
main influence is a guy named Jackson Mac Low,”
 
 



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