Ep. 30
Poetry is read and spoken –blathered– but the actual sounds that splunk off of the tongue to roof of mouth contact filtered through the lips is rarely seen as nice onto themselves. UNTIL RIGHT NOW. Computer Music For Dorks explores the repetitive and guttural world of computer-y poetry. Computer-y? Well not all of this stuff was created using a computer, some of these poems were even made before the first computers were being built at Bell Labs. The commonality is that they all could have been generated using a computer, but instead these writers had to slog it out and manually see the realization of the algorithms out. The results are both visually confusing and auditorily bizarre, as for a reading experience, they are just plain fun. Poems read by me and John Cage. For all you non-believers praying for my downfall.