FOUND SOUNDS
1990, C-60, $5.
Side One is Bern in session with Dick Higgins & Charlie Morrow recorded Dec 2, 1978. Side Two is Bern in concert with Patricia Burgess, tenor sax; Charlie Morrow, brass, ocarinas, voice; Glen Velez, bodhran, tambourine, cymbals; recorded on May 9, 1981. Originally produced by New Wilderness Audiographics but no longer available.

THE ETERNAL POETRY FESTIVAL
1990, C-60, $5.
A stream-of-consciousness sound poetry improvisation with fellow Maine publisher/writer Mark Melnicove. Date of recording is vague, perhaps sometime in 1979. "for our friends in Germany."

WILLIAMSON STREET NIGHT
1989, C-60, $5.
Recorded during Bern's Dec 1989 Madison materialization. Side One is Bern reading from Abraham Lincoln Gillespie & Malok talking off the cuff. Also on this side is Bern reading from Abraham Lincoln Gillespie & Miekal And reading from his own book Raw. Sway. Aloud. simultaneously accompanied by a recording of the Wakanaki Indians. Side Two is Bern reading from Abraham Lincoln Gillespie & Liz Was reading Rooms by Gertude Stein. Note that all "reading" were renderings & not word-for-word.

WILLIAMSON STREET BLUES
1988, C-60, $6.
Bern renders two versions of his "Last Acts of St. FuckYou" [see Xexoxial Books], reads Chinese poetry, improvises an epic performance of the Madison phonebook, & more.

V I D E O S

CRCNCL /A SUR-SURREALISTIC
by Bern Porter
1995, vhs-60, $15. A video movie starring Bern Porter & 2 year old Liaizon Wakest with words by Abraham Lincoln Gillespie. Created during Bern's Dec 1989 Madison materialization. This is a gestalt of visual poetry, performance poetry, spanning nearly a century of accumulated experiences. Camera as found observer, performer as a new species of language. [video & script together, $15.] Videographers were Gregib M & Steve Rife. Steve, who also editted the tape, added on a work which makes an excellent companion to CRCNCL: a 20-minute piece by Cathy Vogan comparing the aged body of actor Ernest Beck to the oldest tree in the world. [Thanks to Grey Suit video group of Cardiff, Wales, for that tape.]

WHY MY LEFT LEG IS HOT
1988, vhs-60, $15.
This "bookideo" features found eroticism from the master of collecting the unwanted. Color video of more than 200 collages with discrete body sounds by E. Was. A delirium of legs in the hot of the night. Audio visual wallpaper for the literate future.