You go, Brian! Excellent points, all [and repeatedly wisely hitting the
funny bone---"the naked word cannot stand on its own skinny legs"].
This email message of yours would be especially action-changing if it were
sent as an open letter/comment to the organisations' adverted websites, or
to relevant newspapers. Reading it [without 'background' noise, natch] on
YouTube would be great [visuals are not noisy]!
unskinny-legged and unshy pragmatist poet Judy
2009/10/14 Brian Hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
> When I emailed the producer of said national poetry show to deplore the
> practice of accompanying poetry with music and other extraneous sounds, he
> replied that the show's brief was not simply to broadcast poetry, but also
> to create a richly textured sonic environment.
>
> I have never been to a concert where the organisers felt the need to
> enhance the music by getting someone to mumble or recite Ginsberg in the
> background. But there seems to be a feeling that the naked word cannot
> stand on its own skinny legs.
>
> Perhaps our culture has a problem with silence, including the silences
> between words.
> But if so, why are not interviews with politicians on breakfast radio
> conducted over a background of murmuring streams, clanging gongs, tweeting
> birds and whooshing wind? Why is this special treatment reserved for poor
> old poetry?
>
> Brian
>
> --- On Wed, 14/10/09, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: moron tries to brighten up romantic poetry
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 1:59 AM
>
> Awk, Lawrence, don't you hate it! Our national broadcaster did a half hour
> show on my poetry a couple of years back, and the producer mixed in the
> sound of a coffee espresso machine steaming and hissing, mixed in with
> various cuts of Miles Davis (electronic stage) plus cafe ambient
> conversation buzz. Grrrrr ... if you concentrated really hard, you could
> hear the occasional line. His ego got in the way of my ego ...
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/10/13 Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > They come not as single spies...
> >
> > email to BBC
> >
> > I have been trying to listen to wordsworth and coleridge - Lewti and The
> > Thorn R4 3.30 p.m.
> >
> > Could we know the name of the moron who decided that Lyrical Ballads need
> > sound effects?
> >
> > Is it brain damage they've suffered or ignorance?
> >
> > If the latter, could they be subjected to cruel and unusual punishments
> > and then sacked?
> >
> > Is it the producer Emma Harding?
> >
> > Thank you
> > --
> > Lawrence Upton
> > AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> > Dept of Music
> > Goldsmiths, University of London
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> bookshops
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