Wednesday, November 18, 2009

First hearing William Bouroughs breakthrough in the Greyroom, I though he was saying random words in a non-linear fashion, as if he is making stream of consciousness. I had likened that idea of having to read aloud stream-of-consciousness, until I found out he did the hat trick. They are all just excerpts about drug life from his stories and mix them together. That was kind of disappointing for me but I could always try that out from the top of my head. It would be interesting to find a stream of conscious audio poetry created just at the start of the recording.
Another interesting thing you (Matt) mentioned is the difference with audio/visual poetry from video art from Bouroughs' "Hello/Yes" film. I had wondered if there is a border between poetry and fine art and music and you had pointed out to his film. What gives it that limit? Is it the combination of film and audio that stands it apart from poetry, the film itself, or the repeated words (despite having different tones)? Probably film as I have yet to see or hear about a film as poetry, even visual. Unless there is, then where is the line drawn?

A transliterated poem would be interesting from Caroline's reading of different versions of the translation. Even a pictographic or semanto-phonetic.

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