Paul Kane and Katie O’Looney

Paul Kane and Katie O’Looney: Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements

by John Eyles
March 13, 2015

Seven Catastrophes in Four Movements continues the distinguished and eclectic history of collaborations combining poetry with jazz or improvised music. It is a meeting between US poet Paul Kane (also Professor of English at Vassar College) and the Irish improvising sonic & visual artist Katie O'Looney. When the two met at a poetry reading in the south of France, they casually spoke about working together. After agreeing to work on a project centred on the number seven, they began experimenting ...