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????




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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/