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  1. Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs

    Author description: This work originated when I was invited to exhibit at the Medway Galleries. The most interesting features of the gallery were its high ceiling and three large windows, which I was inspired to use in the work. I wanted to explore kinetic typography, the animation of images and sound. I came across a transcription of birds' songs in the book The Thinking Ear. Suddenly, I was drawn to this transcription because of the similarities with the phonemes I was using in my other works. The repetitive aspect of letters and what looked like syllables reminded me of sound poems. So, I decided to ask some singers to sing their own interpretation of the transcriptions of the songs, in order to play with the interpretative process of these translations. Having been translated first from birds' song into linguistic interpretations, now the birdsongs would be re-interpreted by the human voice. The sounds that emerged from this study were later attached to the animated birds in the shape of calligrams. The outlines and letters of the text birds corresponded to the transcribed sound made by each bird, so making the birds sing their own visual-textual compositions.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2011 - 11:35

  2. text, sound, electronics, live coding

    This is a performance by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean, involving a strong sonic and musical element interwoven with text. It includes sampled text and sound, electronics and live coding of text and sound. The performance will include two pieces, Metaphorics and Bird Migrants. These two works were performed earlier this year in the UK and Australia, but have undergone considerable development. Every iteration and performance of them (particularly of Metaphorics) is substantially different. Metaphorics (2014) for voice and coded sound This piece employs live voice, live-coded sound (using the platform Gibber by Charlie Roberts, University of California at Santa Barbara), and live algorithmic sound. It involves samples from a recording of parts of the text, together with electronic and sampled instruments. The piece is about metaphor: it also employs metaphor while at the same time deconstructing it. Historically metaphor has been one of the main tools of poetry. Attitudes towards metaphor have been very important in contemporary poetry and poetics, but have caused divisions in the poetic community. Some poets have clung to metaphor as a traditional mainstay of their craft.

    Hannah Ackermans - 30.11.2015 - 10:15

  3. BACTERIËN

    In het filmpje BACTERIËN van dichter Paul Bogaert en beeldend kunstenaar Jan Peeters worden twee gedichten gecombineerd met beelden uit een Amerikaanse film over hoe men het best toiletten schoonmaakt. De schoonmaker neemt enthousiast de kleinste hoekjes onder handen terwijl bacteriën en dienstmededelingen zich verspreiden en vermenigvuldigen.

    De Engelse versie van het filmpje (BACTERIA) werd geselecteerd voor de competitie van het ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2014 in Berlijn. De jury selecteerde 29 films uit 770 inzendingen uit 70 landen. Het ZEBRA Festival, dat plaatsvond van 16 tot 19 oktober 2014, is het belangrijkste internationale platform voor poëziefilms.

    Hannah Ackermans - 17.11.2016 - 09:40

  4. BACTERIA

    BACTERIA

    Hannah Ackermans - 17.11.2016 - 09:43