an invitation to perform the punctuation fields of “a: A Novel”

As Calgary’s Poet Laureate, I invite musicians and performers to create digital sound performances (song, composition, collage, digital, etc) of my #erasingwarhol project.

Posted on twitter at @erasingwarhol are the ongoing manuscript pages of my efforts to erase all the words from Andy Warhol’s 1968 a: A Novel, leaving only the fields of punctuation and the sound-effect words. Metro News Calgary discusses the project here.

I invite you to create a sonic interpretation of any piece in that twitter feed, save it online and tweet out your results with the hashtag #erasingwarhol. This is a community-based generative project and every-one is welcome, let’s see where your creativity takes you!

Copies of a: A Novel can be ordered here …

UPDATE:

• Hamilton-based poet and composer Gary Barwin has just posted his response to page 1… and another response
• Florida-based sound artist Craig Conroy has created this amazing clockwork version of page 2…
• and Gary Barwin has now re-interpreted Conroy’s version! …
• Australia’s Pascalle Burton samples Andy Warhol’s voice to create a response to page 79…
• Finland’s Karri Kokko has crafted “Haukotus (Yawn)” from the last page
• St. Catharines’s Arnold McBay and Gary Barwin has transformed the raw GIF file into a glichscore
• twitter’s “Lemonodo” has performed the 1st page as a prescriptive score
• with additional tracks coming from Peter Jaeger, Cecile Børgås Jordheim, Stine Janvin Joh, Alan Dunn, Gregory Betts, Arnold McBay and more …