On the first weekend of June 2009, The A B Series hosts two performances by Paul Dutton, premier Canadian sound poet and founding member of the historic Four Horsemen. The first is presented in association with The University of Ottawa’s English Department on June 6th. The second is a June 7th matinee in Gatineau’s Galerie Montcalm, marking The A B Series’ first Quebec engagement.
Performance #1
Saturday, June 6
Doors open at 7:30pm
Performance from 9pm to 10pm
1848 (a campus pub)
2nd Floor, Jock Turcot University Centre
85 University Avenue
University of Ottawa
$10 admission (free for students in the U of O’s English Department)
Performance #2
Sunday, June 7
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Galerie Montcalm
25 rue Laurier Street
Gatineau, QC
Free admission
Books and CDs by Paul Dutton will be available for sale at both events.
Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist who is internationally renowned for both his literary and musical performances. Throughout the last four decades he has published, recorded, and performed his work in various contexts, solo and collaborative, in print and film, on TV, radio, and the Web. He has taken his art to festivals, clubs, concert halls, and classrooms throughout Canada and across the United States, Europe, and South America. Dutton’s artistic focus continues to be the exploration of consciousness and perception through the creation of multisensory works, employing written poetry and prose, visual poetry, and the sonic dimensions of language and oral expression. He was a member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (1970–1988), along
with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol. He joins his soundsinging oralities to John Oswald’s alto sax and Michael Snow’s piano and synthesizer in the free-improvisation band CCMC (1989
to the present). He recently formed Quintet à Bras in company with two French poets and two French instrumentalists. The most recent of his six books is a novel, Several Women Dancing (Mercury Press, 2002), the
latest of his five solo recordings is the CD Oralizations (DAME Records, 2005).
For more information, see The A B Series web site or contact A B Series Artistic Director, Max Middle, by telephone
(613) 237 4309 or by email at director at abseries dot org
The A B Series gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada
Council for these events.
