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  1. The Last Day of Betty Nkomo

    This 2005 piece distinguishes itself from most of YHCHI's earlier work in two ways: it is brief (about 2 minutes long) and it uses an Okinawan folk song (perhaps a version of "Asadoya Yunta") rather than jazz. This compelling story is perfectly synchronized to the music, powerfully narrating the thought process of a woman who seems to by dying on the floor, trying to get up, but unable to. The chords played on the sanshin set a regular tempo for the song and poem, but its heartbeat-like rhythm slows down into an abrupt silence at the end of the song, marking Betty Nkomos' death.

    For a more detailed reading of this poem, read pgs. 157-161 of Giovanna Di Rosario's dissertation, "Electronic Poetry: Understanding Poetry in the Digital Environment."

    (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.10.2011 - 13:51

  2. Car Wash

    A kinetic poem reflecting on the death of the author's father that uses the car wash as a metaphor for passing between worlds.

    Scott Rettberg - 30.10.2011 - 20:36

  3. Slaaplied (Lullaby)

    Dit gedicht is als het ware geboren uit een Sinfonia van Johann Sebastian Bach, hypnotisch gespeeld door Glenn Gould. De lezer wordt verplaatst naar een ziekenhuis of een verzorgingshuis, waarin een oud iemand de laatste uren van zijn leven is aangekomen. Hij bevindt zich in een staat tussen waken en slapen.  OPGEPAST: ZEER ONTROEREND! Slaaplied is verschenen in het Nederlands, Engels, Duits en Tsjechisch.

    David Prater - 09.11.2011 - 15:25

  4. Give Me Your Light

    One day in 2008 in Malaysia, by chance, I videotaped two starkly ordinary events: a dying kitten and a chained monkey. Give me Your Light explores the archetypal capacity of these creatures. The archetypes are death and enslavement. The dying abandoned kitten in a parking lot stands-in for the fatally ill, homeless runaways and abandoned children. The chained monkey suggests slaves, prisoners, abductees, captives, convicts, detainees and internees. Give me Your Light is about the limits of empathy and ubiquitous complicity. The display of Give me Your Light is not a linear video, it is a set of video-clips, sounds, music and words reassembled every two minutes into a new sequence by an algorithm. Events repeat but never in the same order. Clips appear in both monochrome and colour, with music and without, with sound and silent. Contextual structure and affective content collide. (Source: http://glia.ca/2011/BNL/)

    Daniela Ørvik - 05.02.2015 - 15:13

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