Gerald, frantk & others:
What little experience I've had is contradictory I think:
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>What about musicians collaborating with poets? Much of poetry and music in
>performance has its disproportionate number of failed efforts. I think this
>is owed to the context of the encounter...as well as the demands of the
>performance. (Lawrence U. may have a substantial input here.)
A long time ago, Stephen Scobie & I (as Re: Sounding, sound-poetry duo)
worked with an improv group here, & so just became two vocal aspects of the
whole noise-making machine, so to speak. That was a lot of fun.
A very fine jazz composer here once said he'd like to try to set some of
the poems in my Selected to music, then came back & said the problem was
the poems already had such a definite, if open, rhythm, he was having real
problems creating 'songs' around them (he was definitely thinking of
working them out for singer & band). I wrote some simpler pieces but sadly
he did not get around to trying anything with them...
Doug
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