Re: [microsound] post-futurist writing?

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's Jeff Noon. A fascinating writer. He's written a number of books
including _Vurt_, _Automated Alice_, etc.; he mixes sci-fi with apocalyptic
UK rave culture and in his more experimental work, extensive language play
derived from sound .. he did this CD compilation with David Toop as well
called _Needle in the Groove_.


http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/702-6427540-1049611

Recommended.

tV
    

> 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
> 
> 



tobias c. van Veen -----------++++
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McGill Communication + Philosophy
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