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Quite a few of these recordings are unique copies, not to be found elsewhere."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 199"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Tina and David Meltzer performing 'The Serpent Power', 1967 #588"],"item_title_source":["J-card"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Meltzer, David","Meltzer, Tina"],"creator_names_search":["Meltzer, David","Meltzer, Tina"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/39497988\",\"name\":\"Meltzer, David\",\"dates\":\"1937-2016\",\"notes\":\"Singer, Song-writer\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/37151654769508282933\",\"name\":\"Meltzer, Tina\",\"dates\":\"-1997\",\"notes\":\"Singer\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Performance_Date":[1967],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/6166/Reading in BC_MsC199_588.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"Stereo\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"2 track\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"playback_mode":["Stereo"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"588-side-1.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:41\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"22.5 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"},{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"588-side-2.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:23:46\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"23.3 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1967\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"J-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"No Location Specified. However, the cassette label mentions that all songs on the cassette were written by David Meltzer, Ryerson Music, BMI. \\nThis may suggest that the performance and recording was done at this Label\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["SFU BC Readings formatting"],"contents":["Side\tTrack\tNo.\tComments\nOne\t\t000\t“Don’t you listen to her”\n\t\t032\t“Gently, Gently”\n\t\t063\t“Open House”\n\t\t105\t“Flying away”\n\t\t166\t“Nobody Blues”\n\t\t222\t“Up and down”\nTwo\t\t000\t“Sky baby”\n\t\t037\t“Forget”\n\t\t079\t“Dope again”\n\t\t096\t“Endless tunnel”\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: See photo\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670554169507842,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:58.590Z","score":2.0843503},{"id":"8368","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Earle Birney fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Earle Birney fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/index.php/earle-birney-fonds"],"item_title":["Earle Birney reading poems for CANUSA Readings"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on front and back of container. Label of recording title and included poems taped to box."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[8.5]"],"rights":["The Public Domain Mark (PDM)"],"creator_names":["Birney, Earle"],"creator_names_search":["Birney, Earle"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/97679781\",\"name\":\"Birney, Earle\",\"dates\":\"1904-1995\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[]}]"],"Performance_Date":[1967],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/4 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Scotch\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"7 1/2 ips\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Reel to Reel\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Reel to Reel"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"Birney_MsC_13.8.5\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:08:51\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"145.89 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1967-08\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=R&osmid=11680616&class=amenity\",\"venue\":\"Department of English, University of Waterloo\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"200, University Avenue West,\\nWaterloo, Ontario, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"[43.4701994]\",\"longitude\":\"[-80.54524293779451]\"}]"],"Address":["200, University Avenue West,\nWaterloo, Ontario, Canada"],"Venue":["Department of English, University of Waterloo"],"content_notes":["Handwritten note on container: Earle Birney reading & commenting on 6 of his poems at University of Waterloo August 1967. Paper noting poems read and the time they begin on the recording included inside container, printed on Lord Elgin Hotel notepaper. Title based on contents of file. Contents of file handwritten on container in addition to label.\n- Seven poems from Selected Poems (1966). – Ellesmereland is two poems.\n- Birney is recording this while the Centennial Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo.\n- “Billboards”: Driving down the coastal highway in Oregon.\n- “Irapuato”: Takes place in a little town in Mexico in 1955\n- “Hazel”: Written in military hospital 1945. Has nothing to do with the military but with the basic themes of love and death.\n"],"contents":["Earle Birney  \n[00:00:54]  \nReads \"Ellesmereland\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:01:26]  \nReads \"Pacific Door\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:03:40]  \nReads \"Billboards Build Freedom of Choice\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:06:13]  \nReads \"Plaza de Inquisicion\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:02]  \nReads \"Irapuato\".  \nEarle Birney  \n[00:07:45]  \nReads \"From the Hazel Bough\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Selected Poems, 1940-1966 (McClelland and Stewart, 1966)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558524243971,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":2.0843503}]