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| screenshot of Fluents (dyslexia) |
Fluents (dyslexia) Through his visit last year, Christian Bök introduced me to creative nexus Noah Pred, who had recently arrived in Porto from Berlin. Noah is a musician, and creative director and lead developer of Manifest Audio, a “unique ecosystem of integrated devices designed to expand capabilities for sonic artists of all backgrounds and styles on stage, in the studio, and beyond.” Many of his devices are focused on sonification: the process of converting different types of data into music and sound. You can check out Noah’s explorations of Manifest Audio’s powerful creative tools on the YouTube channel: Manifest Audio.
Anyway, working with Noah, I have
created my first interactive Metamedia poem. Metamedia is a multi-layered,
multi-media format developed by Noah for artists working with a variety of
media. It was developed in part with poetry in mind, and affords unique
possibilities for poetry as a medium in the digital realm. It’s been released as
a free format for any artist to experiment with. You can read more about
Metamedia from Noah here:
https://www.refractionfestival.com/editorial/on-metamedia
The piece we created
is a limited edition reimagining of my poem, ‘Fluents’, originally published my
book 50 Heads, at the time the most actively engaged with the struggle of
writing through my dyslexia – hence the added parenthesis in the title. It’s
constructed from a series of elements, an installation shot of my exhibition of
Vertigo in the Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh, the sonification | (Creative Tools for Ableton Live of the text), the text’s
animation and logic diagrams mapping the tree of moments, layered in
interactivity.
See/hear and experiment with the layers of Fluents (dyslexia) at:
https://teia.art/objkt/876928/
The work is hosted on Teia, a
non-profit, artist-run, open-source online platform for trading digital assets
as NFT “OBJKT”s; “a collaborative artwork made of artworks, a place for ideas
and creative works.” The point is not to speculate or generate income (the cost
to “collect” one is currently less than $0.50 USD) - but rather to host it
online long-term using Teia’s IFS (Interplanetary File Storage), a decentralized
file hosting network. To interact with the layers of the piece, hover your mouse
over the poem at which point a play control will appear along with toggles for
the various layers which you can turn on and off to explore different layers of
the work.
