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Language, Music, Voice and Notation
You are invited to submit to this internet exhibition.
I am more than happy to e-discuss the matter with you before you submit.
Contact me on l dot upton at gold dot ac dot uk
That is also the address to send your contribution
“Language, Music, Voice and Notation” is a continuation of the book “Word
Score Utterance Choreography” (Writers Forum, 1998) which I co-edited with
Bob Cobbing.
The new project arises from a funded research programme into the
notational aspects of what is sometimes referred to as “visual poetry”
when used as the starting point for “sound poetry”.
Major selection criterion 1
The primary need is that your contribution must work as a
visually-emphatic / visual poem.
Major selection criterion 2
The poems / texts / scores, however you describe them, must also be usable
notationally by the live human voice and perhaps other sound sources. The
notation may be directive or to facilitate improvisation; or a mixture of
the two.
Other matters
In addition to the image, you are requested to make a statement of up to
1000 words regarding your work, preferably for the most part about the
particular work that you are sending; and also you are requested to send a
biographical statement.
Please note that this is a selected exhibition.
However, I am not hoping to see any particular theory supported and I
shall be delighted if your work illustrates something that had seemed to
me impossible.
My research focuses on still images; but does not completely exclude
movies, net art and e-poetry. (Arbitrarily, I shall apply a limitation of
5 minutes on anything time-based.) The only stipulation, again, is that it
can be classified as visually-emphatic poetry and involves the live human
voice.
I am happy to correspond with you for the purposes of clarifying this
project,
Scheduled Deadline: 30th August 2010
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