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Getting Hyper at the HammerTonight at the Hammer Museum I attended the first in a yearlong series of readings presented by the Electronic Literature Organization, an organization established "to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature". Beyond blogs and other hypertext documents you can read online, electronic literature spans a variety of multimedia, including digital audio and video, animated text, spontaneous, performance-oriented text, and texts that readers can interact with and add their own writing to. Tonight's performance, for example, consisted of sound poetry by artist Christian Bök. Not to be confused with spoken word (although words are spoken in the form), this fascinating genre of poetry/performance consists of an emphatic utterance of words, syllables, consonants, vowels, or a lack of any of the aforementioned elements. One example is a poem called "And Sometimes", performed by citing all the English words that don't have vowels. Does it sound strange? You betcha--strange and really fascinating. But don't take it from me--listen for yourself.
This poetry reminded me of the music of Squarepusher, an artist who has challenged and forever changed my notions of how a song can be constructed. Tom Jenkinsen, the one-man-band behind Squarepusher, experiments with pushing the boundaries of traditional song composition, creating playful and often disorienting sonic constructions which incorporate a variety of electronic instrumentation, sounds and beats. Underlying these often manic aural adventures you sometimes find a discernible rhythm--but not always. (At least, not to my ears.) Tom's music is more akin to the experimentalism found in conceptual art rather than the conventionalism found in pop music, and his poetic constructions of sound can certainly be described as hypertexts of their own. In fact, one of Squarepusher's songs is called "Iambic 5 Poetry". When I mentioned this to artist Christian Bök (who'd heard Squarepusher but was unfamiliar with the song), he smiled and said, "That's a great title. I wish I'd thought that one up myself." Listen to some samples of Squarepusher here.
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