Thank you, Doug, and others who have responded. Yes to the person (Christopher??) who correlated haptic space to the way a 'handicapped' person, say, in a wheel chair or with a cane, must navigate space with a certain, different kind of spatial touch. I find the use of the pen to follow the contours, rhythms and pitches of a voice enables a heightened form of contact with whatever the space: poetry reading or street corner, etc. Similar to the embrace of dance with the music and a partner(s), the pen, the way it moves, offers, I believe, a similar partnership, it's own kind of 'real time' dancing. So, these haptics was a way of being 'out there on the floor' with Fanny Howe's voice. I have related experiences working together making haptics with musicians.
Stephen V
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--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: New de Blog - Fanny Howe, Haptics et al
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Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 1:53 PM
Nice, by which I mean, really, neatly done, responsive, com/passionate
in that response... I read both Howes, & am intrigued by Fanny Howe's
poetic 'spirituality,' aspects of which you clearly catch (as catch
can) there....
Doug
On 8-Dec-08, at 5:53 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Newish de blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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