> Thankyou, Jim, for your comments about
Directions to the Dead End. I'm glad
> it has a half-life and continues to beep
intermittently
I played the
piece at least 6 times over the course of the
years on Fine Lines. Great voice and tone, like
music. And beeps. And bops.
I've done a piece on Iain
Sinclair's study of the
> Ballard/Cronenberg Crash film, which might
relate to the
> Burroughs/Cronenberg article on your site, if my
browser could open that
> file.
Just went back and read Lawrence's review of Crash
which is insiteful as usual in his writing about
films. But I didn't find your piece. Do you have
the URL?
>
> However, the rest of Vispo is readily
accessible, and I'm enjoying the
> navigation, especially the audio items.
I haven't done any sound work in quite a few
years. But have equipped my computer with
everything I need, recently, to do that digitally.
Hopefully I will eventually summon the spirit to
get back into it. Sound Forge, CakeWalk, a feed
from the tape deck, and Director are on the box.
Full studio. That's the easy part. I've been doing
the visual and page since I left radio about 1990.
My inner ear is no longer tuned to composition.
Feels like it will be a significant change to get
back into it, experiencing some resistance. Mind
you, all the buttons are a pain though I see it's
much like an analog sound studio. And just
learning Director, which is supposed to be deluxe
for sound wprl. Would like to approach the
interactive animation of text using sound. I tried
several other technologies with sound but found
they were too difficult or simplistic or offered
garbled sound or didn't compress the sound or
worked only in one browser or platform and not
another or needed a plugin that was unusual and
not widely used. Have my ducks in a row now,
anyway.
...I do have a
> hypertext/image collaboration with Jeremy
Welsh - 36 Exposures - which might
> be relevant to your query.
Couldn't find your work there, Paul. Do you have
the URL for it?
cris cheek probably has something rich
and strange at
> http://www.slang.demon.co.uk. I haven't looked
yet.
Yes, I've viewd some of cris's extensive, often
delightfully witty work and
especially liked a piece called Flame at
http://www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com
Thanks to cris and to John for responding to my
message to the list also.
It seems that there is of course excellent work in
new media poetry being done by a few Brits but
that there is nowhere near the number of people
heading strongly in that direction as is the case
in the States. Despite the fact that, from what I
gather, Britain is every bit as much in the throws
of the Internet change as is the States. Is this
observation accurate, would you say? If so, what
sorts of things help explain it?
Regards,
Jim Andrews
http://www.vispo.com
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