Grandaddy music video

Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) musicvideo by Stewart, 2005 "Programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously." www.stewdio.org/jed/

Review

What I found the most interesting was the work of Nicole Dextras. His use of environment and world surrounding him shows through his work. The whole series is interesting because he is also talking about the fact that art can change over time depending on the environment it is in. I also find the Dada group fascinating for there use of typography as not only image but for the sound we see within the image. Kurt Schwitter sound poems are so strange yet to me make so much sense. I can see the image through his words. I feel the the group through there magazine was able to bridge the gap of sound as an image and it shows through his printed work. His painted The Cherry Picture, 1921 seems so abstract yet it flows with the colors he is using.

-Daniel Corrigan

Week 7

For Class Week 7 - 11 5 09 - Post a Blog Response by 2pm the day of class to the materials shown below - many of which we looked at and talked about in class...

contemporary work we didn't have time to discuss in class:
Craig Dworkin – especially "Soundpoem (for Tom Raworth)" - note Lautgedicht translates to Loud Poem
Nicole Dextras – Frozen Words –

more contemporary work
Bruce Andrews with Dirk Rowntree -
Eric Rosolowski - WMD, 2006 -

Sound Poetry - near contemporary
Henri Chopin Sound - Image (including a sound poetry score)
Ernst Jandl - Image -
Sound

Sound Poetry 1910s and 20s
Sound Poetry 1914-19
Dada For Now
Hugo Ball
Raoul Hausmann
Richard Huelsenbeck
Isidore Isou
Kurt Schwitters
Velimir Khlebnikov - Sound1 - Sound2
Vasilij Kamenskij

a good short article telling a short history of sound poetry

more recent historical soundpo
Carlfriedrich Claus
Bob Cobbing
Canadian SoundPo - especially the Four Horsemen and Bill Bisset

contemporary
Christian Bok
Jaap Blonk –
Ensemble Ordinature
Tomomi Adachi

Response to
Five Words in a Line
and
Five Words in Red Neon
:

Five Words on a Blog.

Simple, self-reflexive works are easily dismissed because they feel accessible. There is not much thought put into decoding them because they are what the words comprising them say they are. What is interesting about simplicity is what people try to find hidden in it.

A response to BooBs and Vagigina:

As far as sound poetry, I still wonder if there is a border between poetry and music or if there is none at all. I have noticed that not all sound poetry needs to have a human voice or vocalisation, like Adachi's jacket. But is there a fine line in how that piece is not to be compared to a concerto, unless that distinction is based on the creator's content and purpose of that piece. If a composer makes a song and labels it as a poem, it would be poem, is it? Or that poetry has a border in what makes it a poem while music is broad and would include poetry as part of music as well as art, or vice versa.

I believe this piece is music but it sounds like poetry (to me). It is from Sakha (Siberia).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWcPn8hY5Ck&feature=related

(To Matt, this link is the one I am talking about with that sort of vocalisation and how it is hard to write out the sound.)

Malcolm Goldstein Sound Poem

Excerpt from Malcolm Goldstein
Illuminations form Fantastic Gardens, 1974 (for vocal ensemble)

word sound image advertising

Ok - I can't believe I'm doing this - posting an advertisement as an example, so I'm posting another as a kind of counterpoint, both for >surprise< absolut. It's amazing how the first commercial makes you realize how easy at least a couple of the options would be to realize and probably how relatively inexpensive the commercial was to make. The second is the first in a three part series with Zach Gallifianakis and probably the whole three part series was probably also none too expensive.

(you might want to open them both in a new window on youtube as they don't exactly fit on the screen otherwise)

enjoy

Week 6

For Class Week 6 - 10 29 09 - Post a Blog Response by 2pm the day of class to the materials shown below - many of which we looked at and talked about in class...

Gertrude Stein - Five Words In a Line, 1930 -
Joseph Kosuth - Five Words In Red Neon, 1965 -
bp Nichol
Michael Basinski - b printed -

word sound image in various mediums as 'fine art'
Freiedrich Achleitner -
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ferdinand Kriwet
Marilyn Rosenberg –

contemporary
Sam Stark –
Penelope Umbrico – especially "Your Choice" -
Craig Dworkin – especially "Soundpoem (for Tom Raworth)" - note Lautgedicht translates to Loud Poem
Nicole Dextras – Frozen Words –

speaking piano

I referenced this in class so thought I would post here:

Week 2/3

After me being sick for a couple weeks - here's a list of resources - many we looked at in class - but there's new stuff here too.

Contemporary work:
Brian Kim Stefans - Star Wars & Winter Was Hard

Tan Lin - Echo 1 -


Historical work:

visual...
Digital Dada Library Collection
Check out these especially: 291 391 Der Ararat Blindman Cannibale Dada Der Dada Litterature Merz Proverbe De Stijl

from a similar time period and from the European tradition:
Paul de Vree
Max Bense

from Brazil (and nearby)
Pedro Xisto
Salette Tavares - Portugal
Decio Pignatari
Augusto de Campos
- Sound
Haroldo de Campos
Ronaldo Azeredo
Clemente Padin - Uruguay

back to Europe and the US (coming close to contemporary)...
Eugen Gomringer
Arrigo Lora Totino
Gerhard Ruhm
Ronald Johnson - USA 1935-1998
Hansjorg Mayer - Germany b 1943
Mary Ellen Solt - USA 1920-2007

Class Cancelled Today!

Hi All I'm crazy sick and cancelling class today - check back here for the assignment for next week - and if you were workshopping this week I will contact you to reschedule - otherwise - for now let's keep the workshop schedule for next week...
Week 3 - 10 08 09
1. Gabriella Rhodeen
2. Jake Patterson
3. Barney Patterson