RE: [microsound] ambient books/Perec

[Simon Atkinson <satkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - La Disparition - fantastic it is too!

Regards,
Simon
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Dr Simon Atkinson
Lecturer in Music, Technology and Innovation
Department of Media and Cultural Production
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH

Telephone: 0116 207 8320
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> From: 	Wakefield Graham
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Monday, November 18, 2002 5:49 pm
> To: 	'microsound'
> Subject: 	RE: [microsound] ambient books/Perec
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> Didn't Perec write a book without using the letter 'e' at all?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbuchwald [mailto:dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 November 2002 01:57
> To: microsound
> Subject: Re: [microsound] ambient books/Perec
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> Hi Brian,
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> that reminds me of a book by Inger Christensen (is she Danish? =
Swedish?)
> called
> "Alfabet'.  I think it was written using the Fibonacci numbers.  It =
is in
> a
> similar vein as Silliman's "Tjanting" which Ray Craig mentioned in =
his
> post.
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> Dagmar
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> Brian Lavelle wrote:
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> > | I have just finished reading 'Life, A Users Manual' by Georges =
Perec
> which
> > | would seem to me to squeeze somewhat into an ambient category. =
The
> whole
> > book
> > | reads like a slow pan through every room in a french apartment =
block,
> > | focusing in upon the microdetails of all the objects in each =
space.
> Any
> > | characters in the book are frozen in a kind of still life and the
> story
> is
> > | told through the relationships between the occupants of the rooms =
and
> the
> > | contents therein.
> >
> > A fantastic book, Rob and constructed along very =
mathematical/ordered
> lines,
> > as is much of Perec's work - the "knight's tour" of the 10x10 grid =
that
> is
> > the apartment block is so subtle, you'd hardly know it exists.  =
Ties us
> back
> > into the discussion about the OuLiPo, Queneau and the use of =
mathematics
> in
> > art/literature.
> >
> > Brian
> > http://i-ii.org
> >
> > =
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