Sound Scape Influences

'annoying room'

  Optophonetic poem

Vinessa Trikeriotis

* Tung  - track 5 "Good Arrows" - I like the distant sound of the race being called the pace and distance in the sound draws me in the old sound of crackling is very appealing as well. (this whole work is about journey) I do not necessarily like the calling of a race although life is often referred to as a rat race??? but I am interested in the reading of instructions / directions in the style of a race being called. 

* Ani Difranco - I would like to have words in my sound scape but i would like to abstract them and give them a rhythm like that of waving in a breeze. There will be pace changes in the sound scape this I am sure of as well as moments of silence. The Silence in the sound I will relate to my concept of shadow (This is not yet fully developed but will mesh with the images made for the shadow)

* The Splinter Orchestra  - I saw a performance by The Splinter Orchestra where they played improvised instruments to an improvised score. I found myself lost in a forest and then in a concrete jungle of a city. I loved how the piece moved and flowed in and out of different environments with the use of sound. I really want my sound scape to do the same.

* Phonetic poetry - Hugo Ball has been writing Phonetic poetry as early as 1916 and Christian Morgenstern broke new ground when he wrote 'Fisches Nactgesang' which is made up of metrical signs arranged in the shape of a fish. I have made my own poem but it is more in the vein of an Optophonetic poem influenced by Raoul Hausmann.

These types of poetry have influence me because of how they are read. I like the abstraction and the depiction of the poems.

   

Christian Morgenstern    

                                                         

Raoul Hausmann   1918