Zukofsky’s Homemade Tape for the Library
of Congress & One Suite for Piano

1.)

J.S. Bach
Sarabande and Gavotte,
5. French Suite
Erwin Brodky, clavichord
Parlophone Records #B.37033 II

2.)

It comes to this. / this whole aspect of newer problems. (We enter the area of the whole work, / into the FIELD, if you like, where all the values and all / the lines must be managed in their relations to each other.) / It is a matter, finally of OBJECTS. what they are [and] how they are used. / …Every element in an open work / (the line, as well as the image, the sound, the sense) / must be taken up as an object of reality, / creating tensions [in the work] just as totally as those other objects which create what we know as / the world. …It’s hard to see / but think of a sea condensed into a speck / And there are ways frequencies of light, others that may be heard / The one is one sea / the other a second / there are electric stresses across condensers that wear them down until they can stand no strain / Are of no force as unreclaimed as the bottom of the sea / Unless the space the stresses cross be air – that can be patched / Large and small condensers / passing in the one instance frequencies that can be turned to sound / And the other, alternations that can escape so many waves of a speck of sea / or what / or what / or a graph / the curve of a wave beyond all sound / an open circuit where no action like that of the retina / made human by light is recorded otherwise than having taken / a desired path a little way and though infinitely emote to be uncontained forever / This science is then like gathering flowers of the weed / One who works with me calls bird seed / That are tiny and many on one stem / they shed to the touch though on a par with a large flower / that picked will find a base / I see many things at one time the harder the concepts get / or nothing / which is a forever become me or over forty years / I’m like another and another / who has finished learning and has just begun to learn / if I turn pages back a child may as well be stirring with me wondering at the meaning I turn to last / perhaps

3.)

Anew 12——-|2:12|——-Listen
Anew 26——-|2:08|——-Listen
Anew 29——-|0:24|——-Listen
Anew 37——-|0:30|——-Listen
Anew 41——-|0:55|——-Listen

4.)

Zukofsky’s Homemade Tape for the
Library of Congress, November 3, 1960