As Banff’s Poet Laureate, I invite musicians and performers to create digital sound performances (song, composition, collage, digital, etc.) of my punctuation-only book, SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS.
SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS erases the entirety of John Cage’s book of the same name, leaving only the fields of punctuation: the silence of breath, pause and atmospheric noise (more info here)
I invite you to create a sonic interpretation of any section in the book, save it online and tweet out your results with the hashtag #beaulieusilence. This is a community-based generative project and everyone is welcome, let’s see where your creativity takes you!
Initial responses / performances are here:
- Gary Barwin performs a reading of a selection from Silence: Lectures and Writings
- Gary Barwin transforms his initial reading into “Silence Drone” a 4’33” soundscape
- Eduardo Abrantes performs a reading, in Portuguese (as filmed by Elee Kraljii Gardiner in Helsinki, Finland), of a selection from Silence: Lectures and Writings
Copies of SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS can be ordered here …
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