[microsound] post-futurist writing?

[tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

thats the authors buzzword, not mine
but its from an interesting article nonetheless...
his process seems akin to a max/msp patch
for narrative/text manipulation?

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,420328,00.html

How to make a modern novel

Over the past few years there has been an upsurge of interest in 
experimental electronic music. Allied to the outer fringes of dance 
culture, and produced by groups such as Pole, Autechre, Oval, and 
Mouse on Mars, this is the music of machines with diseases. Decay, 
static, the raw buzz of a frayed connection.

Reading interviews with the people involved, I started to learn a 
little about the computer software employed, and the techniques of 
creation, and to wonder if the same processes could be used to 
manipulate and transform the written word.

snip

The book of Cobralingus contains my first explorations in this 
process of metamorphiction, each piece starting with a passage 
sampled from another writer. How the text is to be transformed by any 
particular filter is entirely up to the individual. The filters can 
be used in any order, so that the text undergoes a continuous 
mutation, as it passes along the pathway.

etc

http://www.cobralingus.com/

http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/filtergates.html



-- 
"I call architecture frozen music"
J.W.Goethe