#spoken word
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Spoken Word
Here is a colelction of information about the literature of spoken word, from oral traditions to slam poetry, and beyond. Know something that should be here? Please share it in the comments.
Writing with Audio
When it comes to audio equipment for spoken word performances: what works and what doesn’t? How can I impprove my sound, on the smallest possible budget?
Strange Punctuation
You can add, subtract, rearrange sound just like you can with words on a page. With sound there are other ways to edit.
Second Land at Pyramid Atlantic
An experimental music performance by Second Land. My musical instrument was a short wave radio, and I performed spoken word through a delay petal at low volume.
Spoken Word from the Bending Corners Podcast
Check out this recorded mix from the Bending Corners Podcast: an exploration of poetry, scat, spoken word, cadence, and even rap in jazz-n-groove. From jazz scat and spoken word to reggae, afro-funk and early jazz rap in the 70's right on thru to the modern phusion of jazz, cadence, and electronics. Word to your mother!
Gentlemanly Lecturer
Bally excerpted from a 1903 book entitled “On The Road with the Circus”… In the authors words, “It is interesting as a truthful reproduction of a style of unique oratory which prevails nowhere else.”
Spoken Word, Recorded Poetry, and Hip-Hop
The creative challenge here is to find a way to take my favorite elements of each of these groups, and go my own way with them.
Spoken Word and Live Music
This is the flyer for my next reading, in Shepherdstown at Reynolds Hall on Saturday, 9 PM. The performance will also be broadcast on 89.7 WSHC FM.
Poetry Reading by Thomas Raine Crowe
Look out! I don't mean the window, I mean the helicopters overhead, the buzz on the phone, and the police at the door. Achtung! The sky is falling from the atoms they have taken from the air. The trees cut to build temples to oil. The brown water no longer fit for fish. Look out! When freedom is just another word for what we have lost. When peace is another brand of bomb. When the national animal is no longer an eagle, but a sheep. I attended a poetry reading this evening by Thomas Rain Crowe , with whom I had the honor of sharing my lunch today earlier today. He’s a real bona-fide beatnik, drinking buddy to the stars: Ginsberg and company themselves. That alone was impressive, I suppose. He shared with us some selections of his fiction and his poetry. He told us about his rock band . and his first volume of translations of the poems of the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz , ( Hafiz )According to his bio: “Following six years as Editor-at-Large for the Asheville Poetry Review, he is currently writing a memoir in the style of Thoreau’s Walden based on four years of self-sufficient living in the wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982. He currently resides in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. His literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina.”