Where I'm At
This 10 megabyte QuickTime movie started as an effort to write about the fruit trees in the front yard. As soon as I began to map my yard on the planet, though, a time warp descended into the room, in part inspired by an ear-prod from an old Steel Pulse song: "Your House," from the album True Democracy. The vinyl memories from that overwhelmed any effort to focus on the now, and so I sketched out some thoughts, mapped, grabbed some YouTubes, and mixed in some iamdan into this Where I'm At (Prelude).
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Very cool. I learned yesterday that the journal Oral Tradition has gone entirely online, and I realized I hadn't been keeping up with the journal in the past year, so I browsed a bit. Recent issues have a number of articles on poetry readings, which brings me to "Where I'm At." As I was watched/listened, I had the overwhelming sense of a poem being performed, which, of course, made me think about Oral Tradition. Thinking about "Where I'm At?" from this perspective gets into some interesting media dynamics issues. There's a mix of what John Miles Foley would call "voiced text" (written composition, oral peformance, aural reception), and "written oral poem" (there is no possibility of live interaction during the peformance). And then there's the whole video/visual aspct as well. Man, I wish I had more time to think about this. Yet one more reason to get the damn dissertation done, eh?
Posted by: John | September 20, 2006 11:48 AM