Chris, much of this can be done in Google Docs (open it and click on new
presentation). All
who care to participate can do so if added by owner.
Hal
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collection --
http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/14481250-chalk-editions
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Can this be done, can we do it? Please?
>
> I should trace how the collaboration idea appeared to me, which was a
> result of thinking about recent discussions here on collaboration and
> ideas of working with image and text, like video poems, eg.
>
> It began by thinking through a way to produce an audio chorus in a way
> that is done piecemeal where no-one actually meets face to face, rather
> then getting a group together to record live. A bit like doing a crazy
> patchwork. So I thought I could take a chorus text and then do a reading
> of that text which is digitally recorded. Send this audio to someone
> else and they can listen to my reading, as a bit of a suggestion to
> start with, erase my reading and do their own reading which they record.
> This recording is then send out to a dozen or so others who individually
> record a reading in chorus with the audio they get and this is passed on
> to someone or even others to put all these separate tracks into a chorus
> using digital sound editing apps. So what returns is something in which
> no central person has directed. The idea of erasing the first bootstrap
> reading ensures this in a way that I would have no idea what my first
> recorded reading would end up being.
>
> Separately, video and still video images can be sent into a repository
> and this could be pieced together and put with the audio, and what you
> get is a sort of music video poetry reading without a central director
> or editor. With digital this can then be transmitted on television, or
> video streaming on internet, etc.
>
> Further to this could produce say a digital tv transmission (as an
> example) but without ending here and can go on to other various
> combination. Like an ongoing open system, I guess?
>
> Having come this far, which is basically an idea taken from non-linear
> off-line video editing... (see)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system
>
>
>
> we could perhaps set up a repository of text, sound and images to which
> lets say a poem can be contributed from lets say a hundred or thousand
> different poets, put together as audio-visual video as above and this
> can happen more then once by several different ideas or starting points
> and in the end none of us would really know what emerges.
>
> There may be a way to set up a repository of text, audio and images that
> can continue to grow, branch off, go somewhere else, without a central
> figure directing the production. Being copyright owners we can give the
> images and texts free use within the project. I have also thought short
> abstract animation snippets can also be contributed (blender/mayo... I
> won't explain more...)
>
> Anyway, thats my contribution. Surely, with further discussion we could
> polish and develop this idea and maybe send a proposal calling for
> contributors, this being free and open. Basically, do what you can do.
>
> Have I said enough get the idea going????
>
>
>
>
> --
> I have chronic fatigue syndrome so I may be delayed in my reply. Just to
> let you know, that's all. Chris Jones.
>
> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>
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