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Scat Songs by Lawrence Upton
based on a text by Chris Funkhouser

from the introduction:

Almost everything, over and above the initial tearing, trampling and
tangling of the image was done by me, quite deliberately, as I used
the copier, by breaking with common sense and / or the copier's
manual. At that stage, very little was produced and very little was
thrown away. The initial run of images ran to 31, which was cut down
to 24 by selection; and , of the remaining 24, 11 were changed by
tearing away unwanted material before being recopied. Xerolage 41 -
Lawrence UptonThe aim was to get as near as possible to an
improvisation in real time. The second session was much shorter. This
time, I had 11 sheets; each had an attached note with a brief action-
prompt. The copier made the 11 copies and that was that. The two sets
of finished images were then sorted together. The title, Scat Songs,
came late.

What I aimed for, retrospectively, in Scat Songs was to get 24 varying
images with 24 presses of the <copy> button. 42 presses isn't bad.
Maybe I'll improve on that in make any future copier poem.

Yet such an improvement would not necessarily make the result
aesthethically better or worse. It's just a constraint, like any
other, to encourage concentration, a taking of structural form into
poetic procedures, which I tilt.

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-- 
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music