Thanks Piers - I've had a dip and enjoyed what I've read very much; some of
it (Lawrence's piece, John Hall's on visual aspects of poetry) fills in a
few gaps for those (like me) still a bit foggy about the development of some
ideas, and some is plain enjoyable - I went into a trance state reading
Maggie O'Sullivan's lovely piece, and was plain fascinated by Bill
Griffiths' piece on spells, er, mediaeval list poems. Not sure if those are
the proper expected responses, but still.
I was very interested in your piece (CINEMATICS OF THE VOICE: Time and
Rhythm as Montage in Text-Sound Composition); it's one of those
"filling-in-the-gaps" pieces. It made me think also about Tarkovsky's
statements about "sculpting time" and Rukeyser's observations about
cinema/poetry. When it ended up at Horspiel I suddenly saw how my trajectory
(coming from theatre and not feeling myself to be especially avant garde or
radical) begins to meet this stuff. I've wanted to write a Horspiel for
years, ever since I listened to a few of Klaus Bulhert's, but haven't been
able to quite. That is, a text I wrote with that ambition was considerably
"smoothed out" in radio production, becoming sequential instead of, as I had
imagined, chaotic and multiply layered. I think producers get worried that
every word must be prop-er-ly en-un-ci-at-ed. The lesson there is I guess
to have one's own studio and exert complete control... I'm hoping to do
something interesting with Richard Barrett with a commission from ABC Radio
later this year, perhaps collaborating with a composer will make it easier
to retain some of those "alternative trajectories". (That piece will be
part 2 of Specula, a text/essay project I wrote for performance with cris at
CPT, and at Birkbeck, back in 2002.) Well, we'll see, here I'm up against
the imaginative/production limitations of ABC radio, but on the other hand,
that's the only place in Australia remotely interested in anything I might
do along these lines.
Best
A
On 1/4/04 8:34 PM, "Piers Hugill" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Finally
>
> The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) at Birkbeck, University of
> London is ready to announce the launch of the third issue of its on-line
> journal of radical and avant gardist poetics.
>
> The theme of this issue is time: tempo: temporality and there are a mixture
> of articles ranging from poetic interventions and graphics works to academic
> treatments of specific issues relating to the themed subject.
>
> PORES 3 contains pieces by: Bruce Andrews, cris cheek, Adrian Clarke, Johan
> de Wit, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Martin Gubbins, John Hall, Rob
> Holloway, Piers Hugill, Aodhan McCardle, Maggie O'Sullivan, Jed Rasula and
> William Rowe.
>
> The url is: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/pores/3/index.html
>
> Happy reading
>
> Piers
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