Students are hijacking my office hours, which were supposed to be stolen poetry hours, so before I lose my mind, I'm going to make a list of every project I want to be doing, and then maybe say a bit about oneof them. Really though, this is another unproductive art day (except it produced more blog community- yeah Loretta!).
-Song settings of Elizabeth Willis poems for art rock trio
-Study 2013- collaboration with choreographers Cara DeFabio and Abby Niechtlich about eschatology
-Oakland Topoetics (the never-ending project)
-An unnamed multi-media concept: music is scored to a text which is sequenced in time to appear on a projection screen (like operatic supertitles with the voice track turned off)
-Complete flash version of my thesis: summa_poetica (like that will ever happen)
-A large improvising music ensemble, a la Sun Ra, but hopefully not derivative of his groups
-A 4'x4' wood cube (box), made up of 2'x2' squares, each of which can be rearranged to sit anywhere (like a rubics cube) and each of which has a text on every axis (top left to top right, top right to bottom right, etc) such that: a.) the corners all start with a letter from the code of dna (actg), b.) the resulting lines of text, stretching around every face of the cube, can reasonably be read as one line of a poem.
-A series of brick poems, poems whose text is painted on to standard 2"x4"x8" red bricks stacked in various precarious ways, thrown up all across Oakland
-A PSA chapbook, although Loretta is probably going to win, containing elegies for jazz drummers
-textmusic: a piece meditating on the analogies and disanalogies of writing in general, and especially, poetry and music.
Tonight, I was supposed to do research for Study 2013 about a doomsday prediction that didn't come true. I wanted to do Busta Rhymes 2 (or 3) albums that came out around 2000 predicting the end of the world, and then the kind of tragic fact that, after 2000, he had to keep making public appearances and be a performer, because I think he was dead serious, at least from what I heard. Looking for interviews around that time where he might say something, and to go analyze lyrics from those albums. I still have until Thursday to get this together, so I'm not in trouble yet.
All right, back to grading.
-Song settings of Elizabeth Willis poems for art rock trio
-Study 2013- collaboration with choreographers Cara DeFabio and Abby Niechtlich about eschatology
-Oakland Topoetics (the never-ending project)
-An unnamed multi-media concept: music is scored to a text which is sequenced in time to appear on a projection screen (like operatic supertitles with the voice track turned off)
-Complete flash version of my thesis: summa_poetica (like that will ever happen)
-A large improvising music ensemble, a la Sun Ra, but hopefully not derivative of his groups
-A 4'x4' wood cube (box), made up of 2'x2' squares, each of which can be rearranged to sit anywhere (like a rubics cube) and each of which has a text on every axis (top left to top right, top right to bottom right, etc) such that: a.) the corners all start with a letter from the code of dna (actg), b.) the resulting lines of text, stretching around every face of the cube, can reasonably be read as one line of a poem.
-A series of brick poems, poems whose text is painted on to standard 2"x4"x8" red bricks stacked in various precarious ways, thrown up all across Oakland
-A PSA chapbook, although Loretta is probably going to win, containing elegies for jazz drummers
-textmusic: a piece meditating on the analogies and disanalogies of writing in general, and especially, poetry and music.
Tonight, I was supposed to do research for Study 2013 about a doomsday prediction that didn't come true. I wanted to do Busta Rhymes 2 (or 3) albums that came out around 2000 predicting the end of the world, and then the kind of tragic fact that, after 2000, he had to keep making public appearances and be a performer, because I think he was dead serious, at least from what I heard. Looking for interviews around that time where he might say something, and to go analyze lyrics from those albums. I still have until Thursday to get this together, so I'm not in trouble yet.
All right, back to grading.
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