Spend 20–30 minutes actively listening to the sounds around you. Document everything you hear in the form of a poem. Just as William Carlos Williams offers us "no ideas but in things" as a poetic credo, can you use sound alone here (and the documentation thereof) to provide any emotional and/or contextual information that you want to convey? Moving beyond Chion's ideas of causal and semantic listening, can you use reduced listening effectively here to further reinforce those extra-textual effects? Can Cage offer any ideas that might be useful in shaping your poetic responses? How will your choice of setting influence the final results?
As will likely always be the case, you're more than welcome to write multiple poems following the response — using different locations at different times — but you'll need to choose one to the workshopped. Your responses to this prompt should be written (i.e. not audio), with no minimum or maximum length (though be reasonable) and should be posted no later than our class on Friday, September 11th. We'll workshop these poems during the week of September 14th.
No comments:
Post a Comment