Nichols Collection 0005
- Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (A Song Cycle on Poems by Richard Brautigan)
- Gene Nichols. Text by Richard Brautigan
- Various media
- Performed by Gene Nichols with the Neoteric Ensemble
- April 17, 1981
- Northern Illinois University
- Music © 1981 Gene Nichols, text © 1971 Richard Brautigan
- Collection of Gene Nichols
- The second half of 1981's April 17 program was given over to these interpretations of Brautigan's 1971 poem collection Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork. Each segment is a separate poem, which we'll name properly after consulting Gene's copious notes.
- Please contact us with more information about this work or the performance itself.
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Prologue: Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork 4' 19"
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Two Guys Get Out of a Car 0' 47"
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Homage to Charles Atlas 1' 19"
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Seconds 1' 09"
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Montana Inventory 1' 32"
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We Meet, We Try, Nothing Happens, But 1'28"
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As Mechanical as a Flight of Stairs 1' 26"
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I'll affect You Slowly 1' 20"
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They are Really Having Fun 6' 06"
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What Happened? 1' 44"
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Punitive Ghosts Like Steam-Driven Tennis Courts 3' 44"
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Crow Maiden 3' 10"
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Nine Crows: Two Out of Sequence 1' 26"
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Business 0' 42"
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Voluntary Quicksand 0' 34"
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Death Like a Needle 1' 19"
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We Were the Eleven O'Clock News 3' 09"
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Epilogue: The Curve of Forgotten Things 2' 54"