Today is World Poetry Day 2013! I thought that it would be fun to have a go at putting together a cyborg inspired sonnet…Poetry not my thing but figured I’d give it a whirl anyhow!
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Wow, this is very good, Nikki. Inspiring. You have managed to include all important components into this one flowing poetry. That’s post-human isn’t it?
Cheers Chantelle! – I was driving to work that morning and the voice on the radio announced that it was World Poetry Day. I thought it might be fun to experiment with a structure I have no real experience with and settled on a sonnet.
That’s what I love about EDC…there are no hardcore boundaries set before us so the practice of dipping one’s toes into unanticipated waters is encouraged and comfortable. I haven’t a poetic bone in my body [trust me!] so for me it is the experimentation element that gave light to the above.
Nikki, this is super. As Chantelle mentioned, you very well touched upon all the strands not easy with so much being discussed.
How about layering the sonnet with a piece of electronic music?
https://soundcloud.com/tinlicker/04-tinlicker-applejuice-final?in=tinlicker/sets/tinlicker-remember-the
[a minimal techno track by Dutch artist 'tinlicker' (Micha Heyboer) and the album entitled 'Remember the Future'.]
Great music Gina. I also love the idea of layering the piece with audio. I guess that the time spent over the past two weeks had taken its toll on me and I could only focus on one ‘layer’ at a time – think that I’ll be getting my mind round the core concepts for a while yet!
I agree Nikki, I seem to be torn between practice and theory, and it seems to use different parts of my rhizomatic brain …. LOL!