Saturday 12 September, 2009 The British Library has put its entire sound archive online, free of charge:
That amounts to roughly 28,000 recordings and, although no one has yet sat down and formally timed it, about 2,000 hours of singing, speaking, yelling, chanting, blowing, banging, tinkling and many other verbs associated with what is a uniquely rich sound archive.via The Guardian
Thursday 10 September, 2009 Clive Thompson has written a piece for Wired Magazine about the Stanford Study of Writing, run by Andrea Lunsford:
Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.Read the rest here.
Thursday 10 September, 2009 tagged Publications Diasporic Avant-Gardes Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement ed. Carrie Noland, Barrett Watten $90.00 / £54.90 (20% discount available here.) Available from Palgrave MacMillan.
Diasporic Avant-Gardes draws into dialogue two differing traditions of poetic practice: the diasporic and the avant-garde. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics.
Tuesday 8 September, 2009 tagged London Events Wednesday 7th October, 3 - 5pm
Susan Howe and David Grubbs will speak about the ideas that have nourished their collaboration as poet and musician. Howe and Grubbs have released two CDs, Thiefth (2005) and Souls of the Labadie Tract (2006), works which take the encounter between poetry and music into new territory. Each will speak for around 30 minutes and the second hour will be devoted to questions and discussion.Presented jointly by the Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre. Supported by the Humanities and Arts Research Centre, the Faculty of Arts and the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Howe and Grubbs will also perform at the South Bank Centre on Thursday 8th October, 7.45pm in the Purcell Room. Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX . Room TBC. via Will Montgomery
Sunday 6 September, 2009 P. Inman talks to James Davies at the Bury Art Gallery for The Other Room. Full video here.
