Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

May I humbly bring to light two of my own web-based projects that I hope are
relevant in the spin this discussion is taking to a larger consideration of
the relationship between text, sound, music and the graphic arts:

LITMIXER: a cross-pollination of DJ culture, literary theory and critical
speculation that was included in Electronic Book Review's music/sound/noise
issue. This is a multimedia piece, a kind of groovebook with accompanying
user's manual: http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/litmix/index.htm

Also, here's the shell to the entire EBR issue, which might also be of
interest to those on the list:
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_
id=tabbimsn

"Machinery for Dreaming": an exercise in text-to-midi-to-sound working from
the writings of Thomas De Quincey included in the Stasis_Space Exhibit, "The
Palimpsest Project". The end-result is a single sound file, but a few of the
text cut-ups and resulting .midi scores are also available. Please give a
listen and read through the "artist's description":
http://www.stasisfield.com/space/present/index.html

Also keep in mind that there are open opportunities to participate in "The
Palimpsest Project". See the site for details.

Thanks,
-=Trace

----- Original Message -----
From: "dbuchwald" <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

> Yes, I see.  Reminds me of concrete and visual poetry; I think Richard
> Kostelanetz once edited a book called "Text-Sound-Texts," a compilation of
> texts trying to cross the borders to music and graphical art.  Still
> interesting.
>
> Dagmar
>
> chmafu nocords wrote:
>
> > 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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