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Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2011Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur
The Rooftop Poetry Club invites you to attend "Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur" with Don Metz, Michael Basinski, and Michael Colquhoun, February 23, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210.
Inspired by a long poem of the same name by Jack Kerouac, "Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur" was written after the big success of On The Road, a time of great stress and anxiety due to his notoriety and alcoholism. Seeking peace, solitude, and a place for meditation and contemplation, Kerouac retreated to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon on the Pacific coast. At night he would sit on the shore and listen to the ocean compose. He recorded the sea sounds he heard in "Sea."
Music composed by Don Metz, poem read by Michael Basinski with musical accompaniment by Michael Colquhoun on flute, and Don Metz on guitar.
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