Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

[chmafu nocords <chmafu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The overlapping of different layers (of written language) would produce 
graphical art.
See this example: http://www.nocords.net/maru/eyes/gallery/Beat.jpg
It is a "poem" I made many years ago (on a typewriter as you can see). I 
think it is an interesting mixture of poetry, music and art and can be 
interpreted as or translated to either, or any combination of them......

maru

chmafu nocords
www.nocords.net

> maybe that would be a different thread altogether, but moving a little
> bit away from the notion of "ambient" and more towards the notion of
> "texture" then books like Lucy Church Amiably by Gertrude Stein might be
> mentioned (although she was originally rather inspired by painting) --
> texts that evacuate language of sense and draw attention to the texture
> of composition.  Almost impossible to read from cover to cover but
> something to dive into at any point and then watch how the textures
> expand and contract, new motifs drifting in, others petering out..  Or --
> thinking about loops -- something like Modular Poetry by Dick Higgins
> which permutates words and phrases in a looplike fashion, like a mantra.
> Sometimes it is a closed system -- that is, a fixed number of words or
> phrases are simply permutated according to a set of rules -- as did
> Oulipo in France, sometimes it builds up and expands.  What you never get
> though is the real overlapping of loops, or the overlapping of rhythms
> creating a virtual third rhythm or moiré, as Gregrory Bateson descibed
> it; something Steve Reich did with his "Music for eighteen musicians".
> What I mean to say is: there are books -- not really ambient but rather
> modular, loopy, texturous -- achieving a musical quality.  They are
> certainly not linear.  But what they cannot get at is the overlapping of
> different layers or strands -- at least not in silent reading.
> 

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