I saw a post from my CLMOOC friend, Greg, about the writing of a poem for our month of writing poems. The poem is called Inertia of Art (Create) and in his reflection at his blog, he talks about his process of writing poetry — which is very different from mine. His process involves a lot of internal wrestling and frustration. Mine, just sort of flows. I can’t explain or understand it, most of the time. Often, I don’t even know what I have until I’m done (and it may be that what I have when I am done is badly-written poem).
As I was reading Greg’s reflection, and then his poem (somehow, I did this in revere), some of his phrases began to jump out at me, and I began a new poem – braided with the threads of his, so that his lines — now removed and isolated from his writing — began to inform my own new poem, braided within his. See the image above for how it turned out.
This morning, I thought about Greg’s regular recording of him, reading his poems in his voice, which he does for both accessibility of text and to connect with the poet’s voice. I decided that the poetic braid needed another dimension — audio — his voice and mine, reading this new poem together.
I had to go deep into the Source Code of Greg’s blog to find his embedded audio file. I then downloaded it and spliced his words apart in Soundtrap (but any audio editor would have sufficed), then recorded my lines, in-between his. The result is a two-speaker poem, braided together.
Peace (in poems and partnerships),
Kevin
Reminds me of this: https://youtube-dj.com/UnyLfqpyi94/1EM9NV5M3Uc/1
So are braiding and mashup the same media technique. We get meaning from the parts pushing against each other and doing work?
anpi-spam: pi reread It the concept of pi is re-read you might learn this: some ideas escape the metes and bounds and rules of numbers and form an infinite game. Ready, player one?
I made up the name of “braiding” in the moment … but yeah, remix.
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