Nathaniel Mackey on 'Splay Anthem'

Nathaniel Mackey joined host Leonard Schwartz in October of 2006 for a conversation about — and selected reading from — Mackey’s Splay Anthem. Thanks now to PennSound’s Hannah Judd, we are able to present the segments of this audio, as follows:

  1. On Splay Anthem structure (2:38): MP3
  2. On “Mu” (6:38): MP3
  3. Mu sixteenth part (2:51): MP3
  4. On movement (4:54): MP3
  5. On ska (2:45): MP3
  6. On Andoumboulou (9:04): MP3
  7. “Song of the Andoumboulou 50: Ring of the Well” (8:29): MP3
  8. On pronouns (6:22): MP3
  9. On “Nub” (2:21): MP3
  10. From “Song of the Andoumboulou 60” (1:09): MP3
  11. On new work (7:27): MP3

Earlier — at a Modern Language Association panel in 2002 — Mackey discussed topics relevant to Splay Anthem:

  1. On alternative epics (5:03): MP3
  2. On music (4:00): MP3
  3. On repetition (6:22): MP3

These and many other recordings (including several videos) are available at PennSound’s Nathaniel Mackey author page.

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