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Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
Re: PARIS CONNECTION: 6*4*4
Thanks, Jo.
A big part of the Paris Connection project is its existence in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and
English. You wouldn't believe how much work these people have done:
Ana Maria Uribe (Spanish translations),
Regina Celia Pinto, Alexandre Venera, Jorge Luiz Antonio (Portuguese translations),
Philippe Castellin, Anne Sobotta, Patrick-Henri Burgaud, Millie Niss, Olivier Crete (French
translations)
It has been a matter of many of us working together for months on Paris Connection. Very close
communications between us for a long time.
I should also note that Matt Mirapaul's column called "Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital
Artworks" in yesterday's NY Times has a little coverage of Paris Connection at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/arts/design/17MIRA.html . Mostly, though, his article is on
the new Walker show, but I see he slipped us in a couple of times.
ja
A big part of the Paris Connection project is its existence in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and
English. You wouldn't believe how much work these people have done:
Ana Maria Uribe (Spanish translations),
Regina Celia Pinto, Alexandre Venera, Jorge Luiz Antonio (Portuguese translations),
Philippe Castellin, Anne Sobotta, Patrick-Henri Burgaud, Millie Niss, Olivier Crete (French
translations)
It has been a matter of many of us working together for months on Paris Connection. Very close
communications between us for a long time.
I should also note that Matt Mirapaul's column called "Cross-Cultural Ventures With Digital
Artworks" in yesterday's NY Times has a little coverage of Paris Connection at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/arts/design/17MIRA.html . Mostly, though, his article is on
the new Walker show, but I see he slipped us in a couple of times.
ja
writing as instrument
language has become the instrument of our doings and undoings in ways that it wasn't prior to
writing as instrument. there were writing instruments (pens pencils typewriters etc). but not
writing as instrument in this environment of generalized programming in which one writes the
instrument, the instrument to create instruments, etc, in a generalizing of nth generation
languages arrayed hierarchically toward a meshing of machine and natural languages.
hierarchically and then horizontally as they proliferate rhizomatically to fulfill specific
constellations of needs and situations, much like natural languages have proliferated
geographically.
all undergraduates who study computer science eventually take a course in language and the
theory of computation, study work by chomsky, for instance (who was trained initially as a
mathematician), in this course which can fall like a revelation on students of language used to
quite a different approach to and study of language.
what does it mean to be a poet?
this question could be answered in at least as many ways as there are poets. but most of them
would have something to say about an intense engagement with language in their work. part of the
heat, the intensity of that engagement now is focussed not simply on understanding writing as
instrument, but writing instruments that are themselves poetry in language that reaches through
the floor into the sky like a hand reaching for its answer.
http://vispo.com/misc/RITposter.htm
poetry reading in Rochester, Wednesday Jan 29
writing as instrument
ja
vispo.com
writing as instrument. there were writing instruments (pens pencils typewriters etc). but not
writing as instrument in this environment of generalized programming in which one writes the
instrument, the instrument to create instruments, etc, in a generalizing of nth generation
languages arrayed hierarchically toward a meshing of machine and natural languages.
hierarchically and then horizontally as they proliferate rhizomatically to fulfill specific
constellations of needs and situations, much like natural languages have proliferated
geographically.
all undergraduates who study computer science eventually take a course in language and the
theory of computation, study work by chomsky, for instance (who was trained initially as a
mathematician), in this course which can fall like a revelation on students of language used to
quite a different approach to and study of language.
what does it mean to be a poet?
this question could be answered in at least as many ways as there are poets. but most of them
would have something to say about an intense engagement with language in their work. part of the
heat, the intensity of that engagement now is focussed not simply on understanding writing as
instrument, but writing instruments that are themselves poetry in language that reaches through
the floor into the sky like a hand reaching for its answer.
http://vispo.com/misc/RITposter.htm
poetry reading in Rochester, Wednesday Jan 29
writing as instrument
ja
vispo.com
Jan 29 gig in Rochester at RIT
Don't know how many rhizomans are close to Rochester NY. I will be doing a couple of gigs there
on January 29 and hope to meet you.
Here's the description (blush) from the Rochester Institute of Technology:
**********************
Jim Andrews, a multimedia innovator at the forefront of the e-poetry revolution, will visit the
Rochester Institute of Technology on Wednesday, January 29. He will do a 12:30 pm workshop for
students and faculty in Carlson Auditorium, and he will do a reading and digital presentation of
"Vispo (visual poetry) and "Vismu" (Visual Music) at 7:30 pm (also Carlson Auditorium). Jim
Andrews is the designer and webmaster of a much traveled site: Vispo~Langu(image): experimental
visual poetry, essays on new media
on January 29 and hope to meet you.
Here's the description (blush) from the Rochester Institute of Technology:
**********************
Jim Andrews, a multimedia innovator at the forefront of the e-poetry revolution, will visit the
Rochester Institute of Technology on Wednesday, January 29. He will do a 12:30 pm workshop for
students and faculty in Carlson Auditorium, and he will do a reading and digital presentation of
"Vispo (visual poetry) and "Vismu" (Visual Music) at 7:30 pm (also Carlson Auditorium). Jim
Andrews is the designer and webmaster of a much traveled site: Vispo~Langu(image): experimental
visual poetry, essays on new media
acid 4 exp 1
Thanks to the folks who took the time to advise me on audio software!
Have been mucking about with audio in Acid 4. Quite like it. http://webartery.com/temp/1.htm
(460kb) is a little demo that illustrates the precision with which you can make your cuts (quite
easily)...this will save me a lot of time. This is the nicest program I've seen for working with
multi-tracking doing this sort of sequencing...and it will layer nicely also...I just picked out
a few quick tunes that have pretty much the same tempo and threw this together in a couple of
hours...not much of a tune, but you hear you can get the knife pretty sharp pretty quick.
ja
Have been mucking about with audio in Acid 4. Quite like it. http://webartery.com/temp/1.htm
(460kb) is a little demo that illustrates the precision with which you can make your cuts (quite
easily)...this will save me a lot of time. This is the nicest program I've seen for working with
multi-tracking doing this sort of sequencing...and it will layer nicely also...I just picked out
a few quick tunes that have pretty much the same tempo and threw this together in a couple of
hours...not much of a tune, but you hear you can get the knife pretty sharp pretty quick.
ja
Stardust stirred with Black Coffee
Here is another little experiment i have been puttering with:
http://webartery.com/audio/stardust.htm
It should stream OK to 56k modems. Though it will not have much variety in it for a while for
56k modems. You'll experience more variety in the sound sooner the faster your connection.
It is Sarah Vaughn's "Stardust" stirred in "Black Coffee".
Here is the idea for this piece. Cut up 'Stardust' into good loops (it is cut into 25 approx 7-8
second loops). I thought 'Stardust' sounded a bit like 'Black Coffee' in some ways, or they're
related, anyway. Cut up a fair amount of 'Black Coffee' this way also (though the tempo is
trickier in 'Black Coffee', not as regular). Then play sound 1 of 'Stardust'. Then play some
sound from S1 where S1 is a set of sounds that sound OK after sound 1. S1 includes sounds from
'Stardust' and 'Black Coffee'. Make such a set for each sound in Stardust and Black Coffee, ie,
the next sound that is played is selected not entirely at random but from a set of sounds that
sound OK after that particular sound. So I suppose it's a kind of Markov chain thing.
Anyway, i learned a few things from it. The first thing is that rather than 2 songs i should be
using a lot more songs. much more variety...
Acid makes this sort of thing much easier...
ja
http://webartery.com/audio/stardust.htm
It should stream OK to 56k modems. Though it will not have much variety in it for a while for
56k modems. You'll experience more variety in the sound sooner the faster your connection.
It is Sarah Vaughn's "Stardust" stirred in "Black Coffee".
Here is the idea for this piece. Cut up 'Stardust' into good loops (it is cut into 25 approx 7-8
second loops). I thought 'Stardust' sounded a bit like 'Black Coffee' in some ways, or they're
related, anyway. Cut up a fair amount of 'Black Coffee' this way also (though the tempo is
trickier in 'Black Coffee', not as regular). Then play sound 1 of 'Stardust'. Then play some
sound from S1 where S1 is a set of sounds that sound OK after sound 1. S1 includes sounds from
'Stardust' and 'Black Coffee'. Make such a set for each sound in Stardust and Black Coffee, ie,
the next sound that is played is selected not entirely at random but from a set of sounds that
sound OK after that particular sound. So I suppose it's a kind of Markov chain thing.
Anyway, i learned a few things from it. The first thing is that rather than 2 songs i should be
using a lot more songs. much more variety...
Acid makes this sort of thing much easier...
ja