ETHNOPOETICS http://ow.ly/189wd <http://ow.ly/189wd>
Poems performed are poems sounded, where the sounding by the voice or by
instruments acting as surrogate voices can bring a new sense of
power/empowerment to performers and auditors. The further extensions and
transformations of voice move it closer and closer to "the condition of
music," to the point where words and syntax — the common constituents of
language — are obscured, subordinated, or totally abandoned. The push toward
such a poetry has long been present at the far limits of the modernist
project and with it the recognition of similar processes and works outside
of literature as such. Thus Velimir Khlebnikov, early in the game, with
reference to a traditional Russian poetry equivalent to his newly minted *
zaum* language:
Spells and incantations, what we call magic words, the sacred language of
paganism … are rows of mere syllables which the intellect can make no sense
of, and they form a kind of beyondsense [*zaum*] language in folk speech.
Nevertheless an enormous power over mankind is attributed to these
incomprehensible and magic spells, a direct influence upon the fate of man.
… The magic in a word remains magic even if it is not understood and loses
none of its power. Poems may be understandable or they may not, but they
must be good, they must be truthful. (Translation from the Russian by Paul
Schmidt)
Magic, then, is the first key and from this the idea of a special language
or series of languages, extraordinary in their nature and effect, and
uniting the user (through what Malinowski called "the coefficient of
weirdness") with the beings and things he's trying to influence or connect
with for a sharing of power, participation in a life beyond his own, beyond
the human, etc.
The selections presented here will explore a range of such extra-literary
soundworks as caught on audio recordings — both in the sacred/magical
contexts envisioned by Khlebnikov and in areas of free play and secular
improvisation.
RT @mediamentor: Ca Dao: Vietnamese Folk Poems http://ow.ly/189uf #MP3
RT @mediamentor: Ella Fitzgerald http://ow.ly/189sn #MP3 lautgedichte or
scat singing "Lady Be Good!" 1957 (Verve / PolyGram)
RT @mediamentor: Canntaireachd http://ow.ly/189qW #MP3 classical form of
Gaelic bagpipe #music
RT @mediamentor: Maria Sabina http://ow.ly/189j4 #MP3 Mushroom Ceremony of
the #Mazatec #Indians of #Mexico, Folkways Records #indigenous #music + text
RT @mediamentor: Indonesian Ketjack http://ow.ly/1896f Ramayana Monkey
#Chant #mp3 Performed by more than 200 men seated in tight concentric
circles #music
RT @mediamentor: #Celtic #Mouth #Music (puirt-a-beul)
http://ow.ly/188Xz#mp3 "La Bolduc"? a.k.a. diddling, lilting, jigging,
chin music, cheek music
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