John M. Bennett Tyler Carter   Alice Hui-Sheng Chang Tim Gaze   John Havelda John Lowther   Evgenij Kharitonov Chad Lietz   Will Morris Paul Toth Yan Jun



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Will Morris

brooklyn chase scene closing moment (0:18)
scan cluster scan scatter (1:05)

brooklyn chase scene closing moment… is influenced by street violence & sports commentary, being pursued, taxied & lunging towards personal abstract compounds- more to follow no doubt…

scan cluster scan scatter is an underling’s hymn recited from a skyscraper’s 55th floor on meltdown Monday, it’s part condemnation & an attempted elevation further, the full piece in 14 parts shall be completed & performed soon as a noise piece…"  



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Alice Hui-Sheng Chang

The world's top destinations for diving and skydiving (3:24)

[Ed. note: This work is licensed for use under the Creative Commons’ Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.]


         
The world’s top destinations for diving and skydiving

          With the sun shining right through my left ear to my right ear, I sit in the lounge chair, listening to the opera singer practicing a few windows away.

          When people dedicate their life to one movement, how do you maintain the drama.

          For a gift idea, I found the tourist guide book for the world underneath.
          It introduced the regular facts for comfort and senses, with the flora and fauna sights and architecture ruins as special attractions.

          Could there be one for the world above as well?
          What would you encounter while you are in the process of losing yourself?
          Would the excitement of being able to fly take over the fear of the death?
          If it doesn’t, would you encounter the world after and the world before?

          How do you experience others people’s life in a book form?
          Or a cut down version in a colour photo brochure?

The artist utilised extended vocal technique, sound outside of normal speaking and singing, as the sounding object. For the artist, the creation of an artwork is primarily for communication purpose. Using human voice as the sound source is also for this purpose to be achieved simply and directly. The physical sound produced by a mouth and throat organism, under no computer manipulation, is not only for the artist to be fully involved during performance, but also to challenge the listener with an intimate relationship while receiving.



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John M. Bennett

Brake Neck
Lungk Sot
Ahgm
Form Stun
Fresh Awnful

(2:40)

These are backward readings of 5 Globbolalia poems, written in a language that has yet to be translated.



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Paul A. Toth

Detached Retina (3:31)

This piece is based on a short poem repeated with a delay effect, which eventually produces a kind of chant. Oddly, the effects of the delay being random, the words often sync with the music and progress into a repetition that seems to produce new words. I play guitar at the end, while the rest consists of pre-recorded loops for the synths, etc.



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Yan Jun


Wutang Mountain (12:34)


about this piece:
studio improv with 3 voice works played via earphone.
the 3 works: by Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, Li Zenghui and Zheng Shijia.
recorded by Duan Xiaolin June, 2008 



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Evgenij Kharitonov

Argo (2:07)
STASI (poem for Valeri Scherstjanoi)
(3:10)
Angry Poema Part 1-4
(6:11)




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Tyler Carter

Berlin 1945 (0:59)
Johnny's Cabin (0:43)

Tyler Carter lives in San Francisco. His poetry and prose has most recently been published in LIT, EOUGH, and BlazeVox. More audio is forthcoming from Action, Yes this Winter, and can also be found on his blog at iwantedtowriteanemail.blogspot.com. He writes:

     “These two pieces were composed five years ago with the Microsoft sound editor as packaged with Windows 95. 'Berlin 1945' was the end result of a thinking/doing dialectic journal in Providence, Rhode Island. Each day, opening the notebook, I would write or collage together on the left side something to do with 'thinking,' and on the right something to do with 'doing.' After filling all the pages, I read each page into the computer beginning with all the thinking pages layered on top of one another, then the doing pages, and then put the two sides together. The software restricted each recording to sixty seconds and every reading that took longer than a minute was thrown out. 'Berlin 1945' is the compounded 'thinking' side of the dialectic.

     "'Johnny's Cabin' was put together in Ashwood, an unincorporated township in the desert of Central Oregon where I was learning Wu Wei meditation. Each morning I would sit outside and say 'No Thank You' to every impulse I had to do something, be it brush my teeth, move my hand, or write something down. In the afternoons I would go for a hike, read a book, or split wood. The source recordings were captured with a mini-disc recorder. The female voice is my friend Molly who was living in Portland at the time."




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Chad Lietz

Salvo (pdf)
Phonetic Matrix Set 1 – 5-Vox Realization
(2:00)




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John Lowther

Jack, are you out there? (1:57)

Fact Sheet

Genre: Improvisation

Equipment: Fisher-Price walkie talkies, Olympus handheld recorder

Location: House on Adair St., Decatur, GA, USA

Date: June 24, 2009

Occasion: Wednesday night meeting of Atlanta Poets Group

Trivia: Next door neighbor can be heard at approximately 0:42 asking to pick some rosemary from the front yard



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Tim Gaze

Banging the Stone (1:35)
The Drunk Computer
(2:10)

BANGING THE STONE into little pieces:  is a severely reductive remix of the poetry cd BANGING THE STONE, by John M Bennett & Jim Leftwich (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2009).
voice & texts: John M Bennett, treatments: Jim Leftwich, final remix: Tim Gaze

the drunk computer:  my computer doesn't seem to know what it's talking about!
composer: Tim Gaze

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John Havelda

Implosion of the Vulgar Tongue (1:37)

Implosion of the Vulgar Tongue (jpg)

Inbred Headlines (0:47)

Inbred Headlines (pdf)

“The Implosion of the Vulgar Tongue” is a chiastic reading of the headwords of A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence often referred to as The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. The first and last headword, the second and penultimate and so on are combined to form short phrases until the piece implodes in the centre of the dictionary.



 

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