I suspect that they are too illiterate to know that poetry often *is a
richly textured sonic environment
L
On Wed, October 14, 2009 12:29, Brian Hawkins wrote:
> When I emailed the producer of said national poetry show to deplore the
> practice of accompanying poetry with music and other extraneous sounds,
> he replied that the show's brief was not simply to broadcast poetry, but
> also to create a richly textured sonic environment.
>
> I have never been to a concert where the organisers felt the need to
> enhance the music by getting someone to mumble or recite Ginsberg in the
> background. But there seems to be a feeling that the naked word cannot
> stand on its own skinny legs.
>
> Perhaps our culture has a problem with silence, including the silences
> between words. But if so, why are not interviews with politicians on
> breakfast radio conducted over a background of murmuring streams,
> clanging gongs, tweeting birds and whooshing wind? Why is this special
> treatment reserved for poor old poetry?
>
> Brian
>
> --- On Wed, 14/10/09, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: moron tries to brighten up romantic poetry
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 1:59 AM
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>
> Awk, Lawrence, don't you hate it! Our national broadcaster did a half
> hour show on my poetry a couple of years back, and the producer mixed in
> the sound of a coffee espresso machine steaming and hissing, mixed in with
> various cuts of Miles Davis (electronic stage) plus cafe ambient
> conversation buzz. Grrrrr ... if you concentrated really hard, you could
> hear the occasional line. His ego got in the way of my ego ...
>
> Andrew
>
>
> 2009/10/13 Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>> They come not as single spies...
>>
>>
>> email to BBC
>>
>> I have been trying to listen to wordsworth and coleridge - Lewti and
>> The
>> Thorn R4 3.30 p.m.
>>
>>
>> Could we know the name of the moron who decided that Lyrical Ballads
>> need sound effects?
>>
>> Is it brain damage they've suffered or ignorance?
>>
>>
>> If the latter, could they be subjected to cruel and unusual punishments
>> and then sacked?
>>
>> Is it the producer Emma Harding?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>> --
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Andrew
>
>
> 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
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Lawrence Upton
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Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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