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poem transcript and visual piece here

audio recording here

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Working Notes

For this piece, I did not think I would be comfortable with a group performance piece, so I decided to try a solo recording of a poem along with a visual piece. I also wanted to utilize this assignment as an opportunity to experience the poem “animated in air,” which for me immediately called to mind breath. Therefore, as I was composing and performing this poem, I tried to focus on my breathing and its presence in the words. I was interested in exploring this through the medium “airy” relationships and really seeing how I could use my breath. This was rather difficult for me, since I had never done anything like this before, but I am somewhat pleased with the outcome.

Performance poetry, according to my understanding, speaks to the complex relationship between a poetic text or written poetry and its vocal or sonic element. In listening to Caroline Bergville’s readings / performances, for example, I think of how her enacting or vocalizing of these works endows them with a particular status (for lack of a better word) that was not realizable through my own reading. Her unique voice, pronunciation, speed in reading, and so on contribute to a individual performance that proposes – or perhaps insists upon – its own interpretation of the piece at hand. In a way, even the simple act of reading a poem out loud is, to me, a sort of performance poetry, because it brings into focus such various aspects of the work as are listed above and because of the different relationship that may come about between the reader and the poem as a result.

Performance poetry, though, is not only about sounds but also about visuals, tactile sensations, movement, and the specificity of a particular moment in time. That is to say, one of the key ways performance poetry is different from poetry written or recorded in a book is that performance poetry has a location in time unique to itself. While words on a page will not change, every experience of a poem performed will be more or less unique. Because of this, I find the representation of performance poetry in the form of books or written texts to be quite a challenge. Indeed, I attempted something of this sort in the work I had work-shopped last week (“Za grómai”), and found that I was not able to represent on the page what I had intended to communicate to my readers / audience.