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  NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Jackson Mac Low   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mac Low said he believes he is "saving the sparks" of the creator's "spirit" when he works from inside "a book that was composed for some horrible reason." In this respect Mac Low was bearing witness to the formation of an internally resistant, self-consciously radical political logic that postdated modernism but predated the new left.
Mac Low s work was heavily experimental and he was an advocate of chance composition, so he is often associated with composer John Cage.
Mac Low’s work was heavily experimental and he was an advocate of chance composition, so he is often associated with composer John Cage.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jackson-Mac-Low   (845 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Jackson Mac Low, 82, Poet and Composer
Jackson Mac Low, a poet, composer and performance artist whose work reveled in what happens when the process of composition is left to carefully calibrated chance, died on Wednesday at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan.
Mac Low's output was a fascination with randomness and with the limitless combinatorial possibilities of language.
Jackson Mac Low was born in Chicago on Sept. 12, 1922.
www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=86039   (611 words)

  
 Jackson Mac Low and Andrew Levy at the Writers House
And then, with Mac Low's final improvised commentary on "spirit" ("a word I never use," he said--whereupon we knew this was a significant occasion) we arrived at a grammatical politics of "saving," a gesture taking its meaning at least temporarily from the religious analogue.
Mac Low told us about Forrestal (1892-1949), correctly pointing out that the Secretary was "literally mad, paranoic and extremely depressive, and ended up by throwing himself from the window of a mental hospital."<6> This capsule cold-war biography had an essential but partly hidden purpose in the Mac Low-Levy transaction.
Mac Low is reminding us that in a sense the making of his own disjunctive style entailed something like the salvation of good mathematicians as creators of literal doomsday language machines.
writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/maclow-levy.html   (1771 words)

  
 Jackson Mac Low - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mac Low won the 1999 Wallace Stevens award.
He received his associate's degree from the University of Chicago in 1943 and his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College in 1953.
Mac Low played composer Pauline Oliveros, as part of her Theater of Substitution series (1975-?), at the New York Philharmonic's "A Celebration of Women composers" concert on November 10, 1975 and Oliveros has played MacLow (see Jackson's "being Pauline narrative of a substitution", Big Deal, Fall 1976).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jackson_Mac_Low   (226 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jackson Mac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jackson Mac Low was born in Chicago in 1922.
Jackson Mac Low, winner of the 1999 Tanning Prize, was born in Chicago on September 12, 1922.
In other words, an alchemist of linguistic matter, Mac Low's art shines a light by which ordinarily diffused states or conditions of life are brought into sharpened focus and infused with energy sufficient to liberate men and women from the largely mechanical, socially coerced, habit-ridden fragmentation of life.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Jackson_Mac.htm   (636 words)

  
 Nicholas Zurbrugg interjúja Jackson Mac Low-val
JML Mind a kettônek, és természetesen színdarabnak is. (De ugyanezt mondhatnám az 1954 óta írt munkáim jó részérôl.) A szerkezet nyilvánvalóan zenei, de a szavak jelentése is nagyon fontos.
JML Volt, hogy eldöntöttem, melyiket fogom használni, és volt úgy is, hogy a körülményeknek leginkább megfelelôt vettem igénybe.
JML Nem úgy van-e inkább, hogy a nem-intencionális módszerek kevesebb szabadságot biztosítanak, és több kötöttséggel járnak, mint a konvencionálisak?
www.artpool.hu /Fluxus/MacLow/Zurbrugg.html   (6926 words)

  
 Jackson Mac Low: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jackson Mac Low (September 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
Mac Low is also a playwright, EHandler: no quick summary.
Mac Low’s work was heavily experimental and he was an advocate of chance chance quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jackson_mac_low.htm   (406 words)

  
 Register of Jackson Mac Low Papers - MSS 0180
Mac Low is known to most readers as an ardent practioneer of chance operations in poetry composition, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff.
Mac Low's interest in poetry as system dates from 1954, when he used a chance operation to generate the text "5 biblical poems." The poems he wrote during the previous sixteen years were more conventional expressions of the writers emotions and reflections.
Mac Low's work tends to be progressive and constantly evolving; so many of his earlier works are accompanied by later revisions, additional performance instructions, musical scores and collaborative adaptations.
orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/testing/html/mss0180a.html   (3147 words)

  
 hans kloos - the pronouns van jackson mac low   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mac Low begint met de bekendste: de persoonlijke voornaamwoorden he, she, they, you, I, it, we, one.
Jackson Mac Low heeft zijn dansgedichten gecomponeerd met behulp van een zeer beperkt corpus zinnen en zinsdelen.
Jackson Mac Low is een van de weinige oudgedienden – hij is geboren in 1922 –; die is terug te vinden in de bloemlezing.
home.hetnet.nl /~kolos/maclow.htm   (2173 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Mac Low challenged poetic convention by performing his work
Jackson Mac Low, 82, a prolific poet who questioned the nature of poetry and become a pioneer in liberating language from logic and lifting it into the realm of sound and performance, died Wednesday at Cabrini Hospital in New York City.
Besides poetry and music, Mac Low was actively interested in theater and had a close association with the experimental Living Theatre in New York City during the 1950s and '60s.
Mac Low is survived by his second wife, the poet Anne Tardos; and two children, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low and Clarinda Mac Low, from a previous marriage to painter Iris Lezak.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002116973_lowobit12.html   (560 words)

  
 Essay on Jackson Mac Low by Karl Young
There is an advantage to this: Mac Low has admonished readers and performers to speak and hear words and phonemes clearly and carefully, as they would in serious speech, and to pay particular attention to their significance, no matter how unusual their configuration might initially seem.
Mac Low could do solos too, but much of his work was oriented toward group performance, not simply as chorus, but including invention by all the performers involved.
Mac Low's set up of the score is clear enough, but in publishing it in book form, I also color-coded each line so that it would be even easier to follow and mistakes would be less likely.
www.thing.net /~grist/l&d/lekyjml.htm   (5315 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Jackson Mac Low, at 82; pioneering poet
LOS ANGELES -- Jackson Mac Low, a prolific poet who questioned the nature of poetry and became a pioneer in liberating language from logic and lifting it into the realm of sound and performance, died Wednesday at Cabrini Hospital in New York City.
Mac Low was actively interested in theater and had a close association with the experimental Living Theatre in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s.
Mac Low leaves his second wife, poet Anne Tardos; and two children, Mordecai-Mark and Clarinda, from his previous marriage to painter Iris Lezak.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/12/11/jackson_mac_low_at_82_pioneering_poet?mode=PF   (576 words)

  
 notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We are sad to announce that Jackson Mac Low died this morning at 11:30 a.m.
I remember that Jackson was at every reading by everyone and that he always sat close to the front, to the microphone, with notepad and pen in hand nodding his head, listening and writing.
I valued the kinship I felt with Jackson, a fellow Midwesterner, who I'd identified as an independent, an 'outsider' to poetic fashion yet who attracted an international cadre of admirers and various 'schools' of poetry vying to claim him as their own.
tomraworth.com /jacmac.html   (633 words)

  
 Jackson MAC LOW - Artpool Fluxus Library
Mac Low, Jackson: Fluxus et la poésie, in: Blistène, Bernard - Véronique Legrand (eds.): Poésure et Peintrie.
Mac Low, Jackson: Fluxus, Maciunas, Mac Low, 1990, in: Bonito Oliva, Achille - Gabriella De Mila - Claudio Cerritelli (eds.): Ubi fluxus ibi motus 1990-1962, Mazzotta, Milano, 1990, 206-210.
Mac Low, Jackson: Wie George Maciunas die New Yorker Avantgarde kennenlernte, und möglicherweise erfand, was man später FLUXUS nannte, in: Block, René (ed.): 1962 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1982.
www.artpool.hu /Fluxusbibliography/MacLow.html   (547 words)

  
 Science, Technology, and Poetry: Some Thoughts on Jackson Mac Low
My understanding of the development of Jackson's poetry and other creative work is of course colored by my having only arrived on the scene in the middle of it.
Jackson only became aware of the scientific use of Monte Carlo methods in physics from the introdcution to the RAND book, several years after his first use of chance methods in 1954-55 to write the "5 Biblical Poems".
There was always a large tangle of wires in one corner of the house where the audio equipment lived; and he used that equipment not merely to record his performances, but, more importantly, to generate new work, either as part of performances, or for distribution.
research.amnh.org /~mordecai/papers/jml_fest.html   (1461 words)

  
 Clarinda Mac Low
Since 1988 Mac Low's solo work and the collaborative group extravaganzas of her company, cml performance, have been presented in NYC at P.S. 122, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, through Movement Research at the Judson Church, at the Kitchen, Dixon Place, and many other NY performance spaces.
Mac Low has performed and taught in the Netherlands and Germany through the European Dance Development Center and throughout the U.S. (including Lincoln, Nebraska, Tennessee and Alabama).
Mac Low has been an Artist-In Residence at Movement Research, and she and the company were Artists-in-Residence in the Mabou Mines Residency Program.
www.cmlperformance.org /id45.html   (545 words)

  
 Interactivist Info Exchange | Jackson Mac Low (1922—2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Raised in northern suburbs, Mac Low was a prolific student poet at the University of Chicago in the late 1930s at a time when Chicago was a cauldron of radical thought.
Leaving school, Mac Low arrived in New York and by 1943 was participating in anarchist and pacifist gatherings [such as those at the Spanish anarchist meeting hall on Broadway and weekend picnics and dances at Stelton colony].
Mac Low was also associated with Woodstock anarchists Holley Cantine and Dachine Rainer and wrote music reviews for their periodical Retort.
info.interactivist.net /news/04/12/10/1641201.shtml?tid=22   (803 words)

  
 dbqp: visualizing poetics: The Aleatoric Mac Namu Jack Son Krsna Low
Of all the poets who have died this year (and whom I have decided to remember), Mac Low is the least familiar to me, yet he is the only one to have an obituary written by the staff of the New York Times.
But Mac Low wrote detailed instructions on how to perform these pieces, and these instructions allowed so much variation that each performance of a Mac Low poem (especially a performance by Mac Low himself) was a unique experience.
To recognize Mac Low’s interest in the aleatoric, in the beauty of chance, I took his name tonight and ran it through a random text-and-image organizer.
dbqp.blogspot.com /2004/12/aleatoric-mac-namu-jack-son-krsna-low.html   (592 words)

  
 [Infoshop News] Jackson Mac Low, anarchist poet (1922-2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the war and into the fifties, when it ceased publication, Mac Low was one of the contributors to and editors of the NYC anarchist paper 'Why?' (later called 'Resistance').
Mac Low was also associated with Woodstock anarchists Holley Cantine and Dachine Rainer and wrote music reviews for their periodical 'Retort.' In June 1955, Mac Low was arrested for protesting civil defense drills in City Hall Park.
Mac Low's re-encoding of the Poundian textual (and political) economies, his application of them to broader forms of musical notation and expanded notions of prosody constitutes a "blurring" of the line between poetry and music, as the 'New York Times' put it in their Mac Low obituary.
flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2004-December/004223.html   (779 words)

  
 Constant Critic Reviews | Joyelle McSweeney
By mid-career, Mac Low developed his "vocabularies," in which he took the letters of friends’ names, painstakingly generated lists of anagrams, and arranged these words in elaborate free form or gridded systems which speakers, vocalists or instrumentalists could then encounter and perform.
Mac Low, it seems, was diversifying up until to the very end of his mortal career.
It is relieving to recall that if Mac Low anticipated or wished for good behavior from his fellow or future art travelers (and perhaps he could expect it among his friends and peers or the Cage set), he did not imagine perfect harmony.
www.constantcritic.com /Joyelle_McSweeney.html   (1542 words)

  
 www.leevilehto.net
Mac Lowin menetelmässä periaatetta käytetään kääntäen: hän soveltaa annettuun tekstiin jotakin koodisanaa, esimerkiksi otsikkoa tai kirjoittajan nimeä.
Mac Lown sanageneraattoreissa tämä kysymys tuottaa myös ylivertaista kauneutta, kuten oheen suomennetussa katkelmassa, jossa koodina on ensin jonkin lähdetekstin ensimmäinen sana ("silence"); sitten runon toinen ("island") ja kolmas ("Lordship"); lähdeteksti on ehtynyt sanan "praying" kohdalla.
Jackson Mac Low myy nipun kirjojaan ja pari kasettia, ehättää välissä (vihdoin) mainita, että hänen työnsä kumpuaa zeniläisistä lähteistä, unohtaa kirjoittaa kuitin, kysyy tunnenko "Anselm Hollon" ("he's a very witty guy, and a good friend of mine"), saattelee ovelle, kiittää lämpimästi mielenkiinnosta ja sanoo hyvästit.
www.leevilehto.net /default.asp?a=7&b=6&c=1   (546 words)

  
 www.leevilehto.net
Jackson Mac Low opens the door, asking me to come in, to take the shoes off, and to put on slippers.
When Jackson Mac Low is not quietly pondering an answer, he's behind the shelves to get more material.
Mac Low's method makes an inverted use of this principle: he will take a code word - a title, the name of the writer - and then apply it to a given text.
www.leevilehto.net /default.asp?a=7&b=6&c=2   (880 words)

  
 Poetry Series Page 2
Soon after, I began to read Jackson Mac Low's Representative Works:1938-1985 (Roof Books) and was quite frequently as moved by his notes on "the methods used in composing and performing" his poems as I was impressed by the work itself.
And even though, Jackson Mac Low is, in his own words, "no longer composing by chance operations," his current evocative and hauntingly beautiful work is, at least in part, informed by his years of writing dialectically between chance and choice.
When I was inviting Jackson Mac Low to read at the Dactyl Foundation, the talk eventually turned to the problem of labels, the problem in particular of labeling what it is Jackson Mac Low does.
www.dactyl.org /poetry/poetry_2.html   (6368 words)

  
 The Brooklyn Rail - The King of Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jackson Mac Low began writing experimental poems as early as 1938 but didn’t publish until 1966 with a chapbook published by Dick Higgins’ Something Else Press, The Twin Plays (available as a PDF on ubu.com).
But it wasn’t until he was reclaimed by the Language Poets in the mid-70s that Mac Low found his true milieu in the fractured linguistic landscape and the leftist politics of those younger poets.
Jackson Mac Low was a writer who thrived on the notion of boredom as though the inexorable boredom is the very core of life.
www.brooklynrail.org /issue/2006-03/books/the-king-of-boredom   (1560 words)

  
 reveries - cool news of the day
"Jackson Mac Low, a poet, composer and performance artist whose work reveled in what happens when the process of composition is left to carefully calibrated chance," is remembered in The New York Times by Margalit Fox.
Mac Low gave a lecture on his "ways of working." He said: They are almost always ways in which I engage with contingency, and in doing so I am often, to a large extent 'not in charge' of what happens while I do so...
When read aloud by multiple performers, each going at a different pace, the poem evokes the wash of murmuring of Orthodox Jews at prayer." A founding member of "the avant-garde group Fluxus, and a frequent collaborator with John Cage, Jackson Mac Low was 82.
www.reveries.com /cool_news/2004/december/dec_10b.html   (293 words)

  
 The Ensemble Sospeso - Jackson Mac Low
Sospeso performs Brian Ferneyhough's setting of Jackson Mac Low's setting of cantos by Ezra Pound on December 14, 2002, as well as one of Mr.
Mac Low's chamber works at Tenri on January 23, 2003.
Jackson Mac Low, born 12 September 1922 in Chicago, is a poet and composer and a writer of performance pieces, essays, plays, and radio works (mainly produced at WestdeutscherRundfunk, Cologne).
www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/maclow.html   (300 words)

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