tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39478694163514796002024-03-12T22:31:46.700-07:00Poetry ScoresPoetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.comBlogger481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-16860602391487830872015-10-19T18:58:00.000-07:002015-11-09T22:11:32.934-08:00"Into the Woods," a poetry score by Christopher Atamian and Ann Hirschfeld<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Schlafly Tap Room</span></a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br />
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"Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King to bear witness to the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">genocide of the Armenians</span></a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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Here is one demo from the project: <a href="https://www.behance.net/annhirschfeld">Ann Hirschfeld</a>'s score of Christopher Atamian's poem "Into the Woods." Ann scored it as a three-song suite, corresponding to the poem's three numbered parts.<br />
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Produced, recorded and performed by Ann Hirschfeld.<br />
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Ann Hirschfeld: acoustic guitar, electric guitar with slide, vocals<br />
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Produced, recorded and performed by Ann Hirschfeld.<br />
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Ann Hirschfeld: bass, drum loop, electric guitar, keyboard, vocals<br />
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Produced, recorded and performed by Ann Hirschfeld.<br />
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Ann Hirschfeld: acoustic guitar, electric guitar (in drop D tuning for bass line, outro solo), percussion (back of guitar, cardboard box, cabasa, shakey, tambourine, wood blocks, handclaps) and vocals<br />
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<strong>INTO THE WOODS</strong><br />
<em>for N.S.</em><br />
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By Christopher Atamian<br />
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<strong>I</strong><br />
Into the woods I go<br />
Ever faster ever slow<br />
As green gives way to red<br />
I walk along the riverbed<br />
Some trees become fairies<br />
Others soar in lofty aeries<br />
Great armies doing battle<br />
Young lovers kissing, prattle<br />
A history of my world<br />
Told daily, how it unfurl’d<br />
In the morning and late at night<br />
Like a martyr I go into the light.<br />
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<strong>II</strong><br />
Into the woods I go<br />
Contrite that I do not know<br />
How to save my people<br />
How to pray in a steeple<br />
From Cilicia and Mt. Lebanon<br />
They came<br />
Refugees all the same.<br />
On Riverside Drive I think of them<br />
As a young Orthodox maiden rips her hem.<br />
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<strong>III</strong><br />
Into the woods I go<br />
Full of hope, full of dope.<br />
I will not fast I will not slow<br />
Just as I want I go.<br />
I do not know many things <br />
As I pull lightly on my silver rings-<br />
Vincennes is what?--3000 miles away<br />
And yet and yet<br />
I think of Sarafian<br />
Night and day.<br />
Into the woods I go<br />
And now blissful it begins to snow.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(c) Christopher Atamian, who reserves all rights</em></span><br />
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Other composers of the scores for "Grandchildren of Genocide" include Nick Barbieri, Steve Carosello, Marc Chechik, Robert Goetz, Chris King, David Melson, Tony Pupillo, Sherman S Sherman and Mark Stephens. The composers will perform the scores live at the Tap Room with a little help from their friends.<br />
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Other poets scored include Peter Balakian, Gregory Djanikian, Adrian Oproiu, Marine Petrossian (self-translated from the Armenian) and Alan Semerdjian. The poets have all endorsed the project, including co-publication of the resulting songs through <a href="http://hollywoodrecordingstudio.com/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Hollywood Recording Studio</span></a>.<br />
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Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-9020189293571210682015-09-29T19:35:00.002-07:002015-09-29T20:20:34.884-07:00"In This Way," a poetry score by Alan Semerdjian and Three Fried Men<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Chloe Day's chalk improvisation, no longer extant, <br />on the concrete floor of The Skuntry Museum</span>.</span></em></div>
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Schlafly Tap Room</span></a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br />
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"Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King to bear witness to the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">genocide of the Armenians</span></a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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Here is one demo from the project: Three Fried Men's score of <a href="http://www.alansemerdjian.com/">Alan Semerdjian</a>'s poem "In This Way." <br />
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It is a cell phone voice app demo recorded in The Skuntry Museum with Chris King on vocal, David Melson on bass, and Elijah "Lij" Shaw on acoustic guitar. At 0:16 there is a text message squirble.<br />
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IN THIS WAY<br />
By Alan Semerdjian<br />
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One wraps a hand around it<br />
before sleep, one likes<br />
to play forget, one casts<br />
for forgiveness, a bible for his head.<br />
One lies to children,<br />
one doesn’t speak at all,<br />
a morning upsets one,<br />
another then another<br />
and another night<br />
without call, or hate<br />
or enemy or in-<br />
visibility or cash or voice enough<br />
to yell into dissolve, and that<br />
which won’t go away<br />
is still a mountain<br />
in a story on the other side<br />
of a map with one line<br />
separating the throat from<br />
the neck, and the heart<br />
that follows is one last<br />
sad geography of evidence,<br />
one that won’t go away,<br />
and in this way,<br />
they pass the time.<br />
In this way, genocide<br />
blows past the family’s eyes.<br />
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Poetry (c) Alan Semerdjian, who reserves all rights<br />
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Other composers of the scores for "Grandchildren of Genocide" include Nick Barbieri, Steve Carosello, Marc Chechik, Robert Goetz, Ann Hirschfeld, Tony Pupillo, Sherman S Sherman and Mark Stephens. The composers will perform the scores live at the Tap Room with a little help from their friends.<br />
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Other poets scored include Christopher Atamian, Peter Balakian, Gregory Djanikian, Adrian Oproiu and Marine Petrossian (self-translated from the Armenian). The poets have all endorsed the project, including co-publication of the resulting songs through <a href="http://hollywoodrecordingstudio.com/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Hollywood Recording Studio</span></a>.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Monica and Skoob at a recent high school reunion in Granite City.</span></em></div>
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Schlafly Tap Room</span></a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br />
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"Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King (that's me) to coincide with the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">genocide of the Armenians</span></a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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Robert brought the project to Poetry Scores to honor an Armenian woman. I took the idea to heart right away, because <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/09/love-for-armenian-women-leads-to.html">one of my best friends growing up</a> was an Armenian girl, Monica Fanning. We were part of a large circle of best friends that also included her little sister, Leigh Ann, and their house was one of our safe havens, where our hostess was their Armenian mother, born Clara Takmajian. <br />
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This was in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town, where in our parents' generation "white people" was just starting to become synthesized out of more than a dozen fairer-skinned ethnicities drawn to the steel mill. In our generation, it still meant something if your parent was, say, Armenian (or half-Armenian, in the case of Clara). To me, it meant you were smart, outspoken, amazing looking, hilarious, and adventurous, like Monica and her sister (their mom, Clara, was pretty cool, too).<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Leigh Ann and Monica with Jay, one of the other guys in our friendship circle</span></em></div>
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As Robert and I started to work on "Grandchildren of Genocide," it started to sink in how fitting it was for Poetry Scores to be doing an Armenian poetry project. Because, as a matter of fact, the earliest roots -- the seed, actually -- of Poetry Scores was our first, adolescent gig in an Armenian girl's basement. <br />
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For Monica's thirteenth birthday party, me and another guy from our friendship circle, known as Skoob, performed our first concert. Our band was called Superpig on Broadway. The instrumentation was Skoob on autoharp and harmonies with me on lead vocals. It was an all-original set. Heavy Billy Joel influence, a little McCartney and Doors (on autoharp, mind you). Monica remembers dousing the basement lights and the audience members illuminating Superpig on Broadway with flashlights.<br />
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We rehearsed hard for that set, perched on the window ledge of my upstairs apartment bedroom. We were so sure of our future success that we made coupons for a free copy of our first record, already pre-titled the eponymous "On Broadway," and handed them out to our friends at the basement birthday party. Monica somehow held onto hers.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Original Superpig on Broadway coupon (1979). Collection of Monica Fanning.</span></em></div>
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Nine years and a lifetime later, Skoob returned to Granite City after graduating from college on the East Coast. I was hanging around waiting to start graduate school at Washington University, and for summer kicks we started up the band again. Superpig on Broadway was reborn as Enormous Richard and the Love Turkeys, which got shortened to Enormous Richard by the time we finally reached the stage -- as an actual rock band; we left the autoharp behind and grew guitars and amps. Our very first gig was written up in the daily newspaper. We quickly built a local following, started to book shows out of town and then ended up on the road for five years, undergoing a name change to Eleanor Roosevelt along the way.<br />
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Skoob got out of the van to start a career, eventually, but I stayed on the road. The rest of our band, my friends from Washington University, transformed ourselves into a field recording collective called Hoobellatoo. We recorded oral narratives of elders, an African drummer's entire cultural repertoire, mountain fiddlers and banjo players, a one-man band in Boston, the neglected blues legend Rosco Gordon, and a bunch of poets at an independent publisher in Connecticut. One of the poets, Leo Connellan, stood out to us, and we decided to set his hitchhiking epic "Crossing America" to music. It was our first poetry score, and it was <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2008/12/poetry-scores-on-bbc-radio-transcript.html">featured on the BBC</a>. So we decided to focus on what was working. We became Poetry Scores. We're still doing it, setting poetry to music (and other media).<br />
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So Poetry Scores came from Hoobellatoo, which came from Eleanor Roosevelt, which came from Enormous Richard, which came from Superpig on Broadway, which had its debut at the thirteenth birthday party of an Armenian girl.<br />
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Schlafly Tap Room</span></a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br /><br /> "Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King (that's me) to coincide with the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">genocide of the Armenians</span></a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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Robert brought the idea to Poetry Scores, initially, to honor an Armenian woman friend of his. That was amazing to me, because one of my closest friends growing up was an Armenian girl, who became an Armenian woman, Monica Fanning (her mother Clara was a Takmajian). Monica had an enormous influence on me growing up -- it's no exaggeration to say I would not be the same person today were it not for her. <br />
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I liked the idea of approaching a subject as supremely depressing as genocide from the angle of loving someone who is very much alive. Monica and I were in a best-friendship circle at the time we all began to discover ourselves as women and men, rather than girls and boys, and she and I made some of those precious early discoveries together. Monica was a blunt truth-teller, none more blunt nor truthful. She was also a gifted athlete who could compete with the guys in pretty much any sport, and we played them all together. Really, the unique kind of person Monica is and her quirky beauty -- a very Armenian beauty, as we knew even in middle school -- will always partly define for me what it means to be interesting and attractive.<br />
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So this project is not, for me, about genocide. It's about surviving and making love and having children who grow up to make love and have children. That's the beauty, anyway, of the <a href="http://www.alansemerdjian.com/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Alan Semerdjian</span></a> poem title that Robert and I adopted as the name for our project. We are talking about the "Grandchildren of Genocide," which implies that the people survived the genocide, and their children survived to have children. If for no other reason than Monica Fanning, her little sister Leigh Ann Fanning, and their mother Clara Takmajian Waterson, I thank God that the Armenian people survived.<br />
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Schlafly Tap Room</span></a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br /><br /> "Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King to coincide with the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">genocide of the Armenians</span></a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br /><br />Here is one demo from the project: Robert Goetz's score of <a href="http://gregorydjanikian.com/about/">Gregory Djanikian</a>'s poem "Dark Wings" from Gregory's poetic sequence about the Armenian genocide, "<a href="http://gregorydjanikian.com/so-i-will-till-the-ground/">So I Will Till the Ground</a>" (20007). It is a home demo, with Robert on acoustic guitar and vocal.<br /><br />
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Other composers of the scores for "Grandchildren of Genocide" include Nick Barbieri, Steve Carosello, Marc Chechik, Chris King, David Melson, Ann Hirschfeld, Tony Pupillo, Sherman S Sherman and Mark Stephens. The composers will perform the scores live at the Tap Room with a little help from their friends.<br /><br />Other poets scored include Christopher Atamian, Peter Balakian, Adrian Oproiu, Marine Petrossian (self-translated from the Armenian) and Alan Semerdjian. The poets have all endorsed the project, including co-publication of the resulting songs through <a href="http://hollywoodrecordingstudio.com/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Hollywood Recording Studio</span></a>.<br />
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Previously posted: <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/08/poetry-scores-to-premiere-grandchilden.html">a more complete event announcement</a>.<br />
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<strong>"Dark Wings"</strong><br />
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Now is the time to say<br />
something for the animals <br />
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felled by gunshot and broadax <br />
cluster bomb and bayonet<br />
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who have lain curled in their own blood <br />
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their flanks torn apart, <br />
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the muscles of their rippled <br />
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horses in their heavy tranquility,<br />
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by river bank, by well-spring, <br />
the sleek, undaunted cats, the goats<br />
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meandering by olive groves <br />
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a hot sharp sting of pain<br />
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"Dark Wings" is (c) 2007 by Gregory Djanikian "<a href="http://gregorydjanikian.com/so-i-will-till-the-ground/">So I Will Till the Ground</a>" (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)<br />
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Poetry Scores will premiere a new work "Grandchildren of Genocide" at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/">The Schlafly Tap Room</a> at 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 21. Old Time favorites Dugout Canoe will open at 9 p.m., and indie rockers Accelerando will close at 11 p.m. It is a free show. <br />
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"Grandchildren of Genocide" is a new score of modern poetry from Armenia co-produced by Robert Goetz and Chris King to coincide with the centennial of the 1915 onset of the <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/genocidefaq.html">genocide of the Armenians</a> by the Ottoman Empire.<br />
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Composers of the scores include Nick Barbieri, Steve Carosello, Marc Chechik, Robert Goetz, Chris King, David Melson, Ann Hirschfeld, Tony Pupillo, Sherman S Sherman and Mark Stephens. The composers will perform the scores live with a little help from their friends.<br />
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Christopher Atamian, Peter Balakian, Gregory Djanikian, Adrian Oproiu, Marine Petrossian (self-translated from the Armenian) and Alan Semerdjian. The poets have all endorsed the project, including co-publication of the resulting songs through <a href="http://hollywoodrecordingstudio.com/">Hollywood Recording Studio</a>.<br />
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Robert Goetz brought the project to Poetry Scores in an effort to honor a dear Armenian friend, the artist Gina Alvarez, born Gina Korakian. It so happens Chris King, Poetry Scores co-founder, had a best friend from high school, Monica Fanning, who was part of a large Armenian family in Granite City, the Takmajians. You could say the producers' hearts are in this project.<br />
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Robert started learning about Armenia out of love for an Armenian, but he came to focus on the genocide by reading "Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir" by <a href="http://www.peterbalakian.com/">Peter Balakian</a> -- remarkably, one of the poets who ended up graciously contributing work for the project when Chris pitched him blindly. <br />
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Peter Balakian then suggested we invite the poet <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/gregory-djanikian">Gregory Djanikian</a> and shared his contact information. On that sparkling recommendation Gregory sent us an entire book of his poetry on the genocide, "So I Will Till the Ground," with permission to score any or all of it.<br />
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Poetry Scores owes a special thanks to another one of the contributing poets, Christopher Atamian of New York. Contacted out of the blue on the recommendation of a mutual friend, the translator Susan Bernofsky, Christopher contributed poems by himself and his friend <a href="http://www.alansemerdjian.com/">Alan Semerdjian</a> (who is also a songwriter). Alan's poem "Grandchildren of Genocide" provided the evocative title for the Poetry Scores project.<br />
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Susan Bernofsky also put the producers on the trail that led to the other two participating poets, <a href="http://marinepetrossian.com/en/about">Marine Petrossian</a> and Adrian Oproiu, who had work in "Trafika Europe 4: Armenian Rhapsody," an online publication that Susan suggested as a resource. Poetry Scores now plans a separate project devoted entirely to the work of Marine Petrossian. <br />
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As for Adrian Oproiu -- another musician -- he is the one featured poet not of Armenian descent. He is a Romanian who lives in Croatia. But Adrian liked the idea of the project and agreed with the producers that his poem "Woodcocks," which appeared in "<a href="http://cld.bz/H76Nmju">Armenian Rhapsody</a>," also belongs in "Grandchildren of Genocide."<br />
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The producers would like to note that not all of the Armenian poetry we are scoring is about the genocide. Not all of it is especially depressing. And the composers have not been directed to brood upon the tragedy, but rather to write the best songs in their own voices to the poems that speak to them. Obviously, the Armenian people survived, despite their terrible losses. It is their survival that we celebrate in song.<br />
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<em>The Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust St. in St. Louis) makes tasty beers in many varieties, stocks a full bar, and serves delicious tavern (and beyond) food. Chef Andy is mulling over adding an Armenian lunch special the week of our show. Recipes welcome!</em><br />
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<em>Poetry Scores is an international arts collective based in St. Louis, Missouri, that translates the poetry of the world into other media, including music, visual art, cinema, spirits, food, games and happenings.</em><br />
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<em>The Poetry Scores blog will be updated with demos and finished scores as they emerge from the poems.</em><br />
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Dugout Canoe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAeBaoUlM7s">rocking a square dance</a>.<br />
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Accelerando <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOdPtZUepw">live at Lemmons</a>.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nick Barbieri performs his score of a poem from Josephine Miles' "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">with Heidi Dean, Tracy Swigert, Adam Long and Eileen Gannon.</span></em></div>
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Nick Barbieri will host a listening party for his debut record as a leader, "<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poetry-scored/id993936996">Poetry Scored</a>," 7 p.m. Thursday, August 13 at The Tick Tock Tavern, 3459 Magnolia in South St. Louis. <br />
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It's a free event. There is a cash-only bar. The Tick Tock connects to <a href="http://steveshotdogsstl.com/">Steve's Hot Dogs</a>, serving hot dog classics and creations, and they'll deliver your dogs to the tavern.<br />
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"Poetry Scored" is a 12-song effort with a brief instrumental intro. Nick took the title from the idea of a poetry score, a poem set to music like you would score a movie. It's another way to describe the classic form of the song setting, the poem set to music, introduced by the St. Louis-based arts collective Poetry Scores.<br />
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Nick writes in a wide range of styles, giving the record something of a musical sampler quality. The through-line is rock and pop, but he also writes a smoldering soul blues, a folk ballad for harp, a vocal quartet, a fanfare, and a synth dance number intentionally made to sound cheesy, in keeping with the tone of the poem.<br />
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Nick is a drummer who sings like a bird and can also play a little bit of everything. He is accompanied by all sorts of extremely talented musicians, playing guitars and harp and horns and strings and keyboards and vocals: Brian Henneman, Eilen Gannon, Carl Pandolfi, Alex Mutrux, Obeid Khan, Mark Buckheit, Tony Ostinato, Dino Monoxelos, Frank Catalano, Phil Jost, Nathan Pence, Meghan Gohil, Jay Lauterwasser, Adam Long, David Melson, Heidi Dean, Tracy Swigert and Lyris Hung. <br />
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Nine of the twelve songs on "Poetry Scored" are actual poetry scores -- most, but not all, composed for Poetry Scores projects. For Poetry Scores, Nick set to music poems by Josephine Miles ("Longing to Find Myself Out"), Mary Dalton ("The Swallowing," scored as a four-song suite) and Andreas Embirikos, translated from the Greek by Nikos Stabakis ("Desire").<br />
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There is a good story about "Desire." Poetry Scores commissioned <a href="http://www.barbaraharbach.com/">Barbara Harbach</a> to score selections from Embirikos' Surrealist classic "Blast Furnace," and she discarded six of the prose poems we had selected for her to score. Surrealists adore the concept of chance, and it occurred to me there are six sides to a die for each of those six discarded poems. <br />
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So the night of the art invitational for Embirikos, we had six songwriters, including Nick, agree to roll a die the second they walked in Mad Art and score the Embirikos poem we had randomly assigned to that number. They had the three hours of the invitational to write and record it. Nick rolled for "Desire" and scored it that night in a corner of Mad Art where the chairs get stacked, his wife Beth encouraging him and giving him feedback.<br />
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Nick also scored Albert Saijo for Poetry Scores Hawai'i, Poetry Scores' first affiliate outside of St. Louis, housed at the <a href="http://hilo.hawaii.edu/~art/">Art Department</a> at the state university in Hilo, with a focus on poets of Hawai'i. Saijo was born in the San Fernando Valley, went to high school at a Japanese internment camp in Wyoming and befriended Jack Kerouac in San Francisco, but he lived his best, last years in Volcano, just up the volcano on the Big Island from Hilo. .<br />
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Nick also scored two poems by yours truly, Chris King. Though I co-founded Poetry Scores and first invited Nick to compose for us, these songs had other origins. "The Shape of a Man" is the title track, so to speak, from my second chapbook of poetry, and Nick scored it on his own initiative. I love how this song struts and rocks, earning an extremely rare comparison from me: to Lou Reed.<br />
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I wrote the poem "Man with Briefcase at #2968443" for <a href="http://erichall.bandcamp.com/track/man-with-briefcase-at-2968443">a Laumeier Sculpture Park project</a>. Eric Hall invited people to score sculptures, and I decided to write a poem to the Jonathan Borofsky sculpture of the man with briefcase silhouette, and then score my own poem with David Melson. I invited Nick to improve upon my melodic sketch and sing it with stacked harmonies. The song is now in Laumeier's permanent collection.<br />
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Though I'm totally psyched and honored that Nick picked up on our idea of scoring poems and ran so far with it, even scoring one of my own poems, he includes two songs he wrote with his own lyrics, "The Ground" and "Fireworks," which are as good as anything on "Poetry Scored." <a href="http://kdhx.org/play/radio-shows/sound-salvation">Steve Pick of KDHX </a>said to me that "Fireworks" is a "perfect pop song," and I agree absolutely.<br />
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Nick also includes one cover by St. Louis songwriter Chuck Reinhart. "Midget's" is a song I first heard at a Guitar Circle and have held very dear to my heart ever since. A group of musicians associated with Poetry Scores is working on <a href="http://confluencecity.blogspot.com/2014/01/songs-from-home-midgets-by-chuck.html">a very occasional series</a> of covering fellow local songsters. This performance was really transformed in the mixing process by Meghan Gohil, the Poetry Scores partner in Los Angeles.<br />
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Meghan Gohil (<a href="http://hollywoodrecordingstudio.com/index/">Hollywood Recording Studio</a>) co-produced "Poetry Scored" with Nick Barbieri. He also mixed all but two of the songs. It was mastered by Poetry Scores' co-founder and East Nashville partner, Elijah "Lij" Shaw (<a href="http://www.thetoyboxstudio.com/">The Toy Box Studio</a>). Adam Long mixed the other two songs and recorded three of Nick's vocals. Nick recorded everything else.<br />
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<em>"Poetry Scored" by Nick Barbieri is distributed digitally by Hollywood Recording Studio and should be available wherever music is downloaded or streamed (</em><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poetry-scored/id993936996"><em>iTunes link</em></a><em>). Nick also pressed actual physical CDs that you can pick up at The Tick Tock on August 13, or through Nick (nickbedrock gmail com).</em><br />
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-82234052241598757702015-05-30T09:35:00.001-07:002015-05-30T09:35:25.500-07:00A song about a poem about a photograph about playing darts in Newfoundland<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Scott Walden (2007)<br />
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</span></a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br /><br /> We are scoring "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</span></a>" by Mary Dalton, a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," according to its subtitle, about the taverns and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland.<br /><br />We are translating into music poetry that was itself the translation of photographs. Mary Dalton based her poetic sequence on <a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">a series of photographs</span></a> taken on the road between Holyrood and Brigus, Newfoundland, between 2005 and 2007 by Scott Walden.<br />
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Only three of the twelve poems in the sequence are subtitled after a specific photograph. "Darts (villanelle)" is subtitled after the photograph "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #7, Avondale, Conception Bay," a photograph of a woman throwing a dart behind a man who has just thrown a dart into a separate dart board. Behind them are the shadows of a lounge where chairs and tables have been cleared from the floor and stacked on top of each other. Her poem opens with the most vivid image in a quiet, contemplative photograph: the flash of the woman's throwing hand.<br />
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In a flash the hand soars into flight;<br />here the scuffed lino’s a stage<br />The bar chatter’s faint from this height.<br /> <br />
Banished from thought is the fight<br />that burrowed its way out of rage;<br />in a flash, the hand soars in flight<br /><br />Y’know, the missus and buddy are tight.<br />That fellow stole his new gauge.<br />The bar chatter’s faint from this height.<br /><br />Birds hover or, it might be, a kite:<br />the plodder’s transformed to a sage.<br />
In a flash the hand soars in flight.<br /> <br />
The wheel of the dartboard’s a site<br />where drudgery’s exiled, and age.<br />The bar chatter’s faint from this height.<br /><br />The massed shadows now cannot quite<br />mew up this prey in their cage.<br />In a flash the hand soars in flight;<br />the bar chatter’s faint from this height.<br />
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The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem’s two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: <i>A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2</i> . </blockquote>
Poetry Scores is setting Mary Dalton's poetic sequence to music anthology-style, with a committee of composers working on the project. Michael Martin - a veteran of many great St. Louis bands, including Three Foot Thick, Kamikaze Cowboy, and Karate Bikini - scored "Darts (villanelle)" as a folk rock song with a loose, fetching feel. Michael is a busy producer in his Broom Factory Studio, and it sounds to me like he had some fun in the studio with this tricky poem about a simple game.<br />
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Another photo from Scott Walden's series also depicts a dart board as part of an impromptu tavern wall formal study, "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #28, Holyrood, Conception Bay" (2006).<br />
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Scott Walden (2006)<br />
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Video of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wog11oi5k49xyzp/AACxdYmH6fX-PbNrg62DkyoSa/Darts%20(villanelle)_3MB%20MP4.mp4?dl=0">Mary Dalton reading "Darts (villanelle)"</a> that she recorded for our project.<br />
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The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">original announcement of the May 30 show</span></a> with more details.<br />
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Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-75827727394677285952015-05-28T17:11:00.003-07:002015-05-28T17:25:16.877-07:00Rock song to a poetic triolet about a formal study photograph of lounge exterior in Newfoundland<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</span></a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br />
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We are scoring "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</span></a>" by Mary Dalton, a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," according to its subtitle, about the taverns and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland.<br />
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It's interesting that we are translating into music poetry that was itself the translation of photographs. Mary Dalton based her poetic sequence on <a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">a series of photographs</span></a> taken on the road between Holyrood and Brigus, Newfoundland, between 2005 and 2007 by Scott Walden.<br />
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Only two of the twelve poems in the sequence are subtitled after a specific photograph. "Tommy's Lounge" is subtitled after the photograph "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #47, Brigus, Conception Bay," a formal study of the lounge's exterior. <br />
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A handsome, Western-themed sign features the lounge name framed by a Stetson tented over a pair of cowboy boots, with two big stars like lawmen badges. The lounge sign does not line up quite right with the smaller side window it butts up against. Siding that looks like it's seen a few hard winters buckles here and there throughout, forming a background pattern that is slightly warped.<br />
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Mary Dalton's poem picks up on the Western imagery, the things not lining up quite right, and the slightly warped atmosphere of the photograph.<br />
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<strong>Tommy’s Lounge (triolet)</strong><br />
<em>All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #47</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">By Mary Dalton</span><br />
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There’s Western gear on Tommy’s sign;<br />
cartoon Stetson, boots and star.<br />
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Here’s no tang of kelp or brine,<br />
but big bucks earned fast, by gar.<br />
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And, caught in a pane, a stave of lines,<br />
and the sky that scatters us far.<br />
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Western gear on Tommy’s sign:<br />
cartoon Stetson, boots and star.<br />
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I don't understand that bit about gar fishing in Newfoundland, but I know something about tough commercial fishing port towns, which seems to be what's evoked here. <br />
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The <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-form-triolet">"triolet"</a> in the poem title is the name for the poetic form that Mary Dalton uses here. Though "triolet" has "trio" in it, it's got nothing to do with threes, but is rather a short poem of eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout. It makes perfect sense that the poet would use a traditional poetic form to write a poem about a photograph that is a formal study.<br />
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Mark Buckheit scored "Tommy's Lounge" for us. Mark made that triolet <em>rock</em>.<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/mamjam-mark/tommys-1-1">"Tommy's Lounge"</a><br />
(Mary Dalton, Mark Buckheit)<br />
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Demo performed and recorded by Mark Buckheit.<br />
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Video of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wog11oi5k49xyzp/AADWnAZ5Ovdy1EcObI3K1-3Ra/Tommy's%20Lounge_3MB%20MP4.mp4?dl=0">Mary Dalton reading "Tommy's Lounge,"</a> recorded just for our show.<br />
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The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">original announcement of the May 30 show</span></a> with more details.<br />
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-73366855034116805952015-05-27T17:55:00.000-07:002015-05-28T16:29:29.680-07:00A song about a poem about a photograph of a girl at a bar in Newfoundland<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #24, Colliers, Conception Bay" <br />
By Scott Walden (2006)<br />
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</span></a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br />
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We are scoring "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</span></a>" by Mary Dalton, a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," according to its subtitle, about the taverns and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland.<br />
<br />
It's interesting that we are translating into music poetry that was itself the translation of photographs. Mary Dalton based her poetic sequence on <a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html">a series of photographs</a> taken on the road between Holyrood and Brigus, Newfoundland, between 2005 and 2007 by Scott Walden.<br />
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Only two of the twelve poems in the sequence are subtitled after a specific photograph. "Girl at the Bar" is subtitled after the 24th numbered poem in Scott Walden's series, "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #24, Colliers, Conception Bay" (2006). The poem even mentions the photographer and places his portrait of this young woman in the history of art alongside Vermeer and Botticelli.<br />
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The poem is self-consciously ekphrastic: it's deliberately a poem about a work of art.<br />
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<strong>Girl at the Bar</strong><br />
<em>All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #24</em><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By Mary Dalton</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>I spend most of my time not dying.<br />That’s what living is for.<br />—Frederick Seidel, “Fog”</em></span><br />
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She is looking into the distance.<br />
The light touches her forehead, her neck,<br />
hovers about her eyes and chin,<br />
gold strands of her hair,<br />
gold of the beer glass.<br />
Fiery light glances off her<br />
hair, upswept at the back.<br />
The busy iconography of the bar,<br />
its framed memories and plaques,<br />
the phone talker nearby—<br />
against their blurry clutter<br />
a stillness, a space at once inner<br />
and knowing, a pool of solitude<br />
in the whirl of the carnival.<br />
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Here, in the commotion, the crowd,<br />
the photographer’s found<br />
a Botticelli angel,<br />
a Vermeer beauty,<br />
T-shirted,<br />
yet his gaze travels further:<br />
one senses that soon<br />
the moment will vanish;<br />
she will slide off the bar stool,<br />
toss off a wise-crack,<br />
grin at the comeback,<br />
sashay out with buddy,<br />
out into the lava shift of the strobes,<br />
out into the roiling<br />
spree of the dance floor.<br />
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We are scoring "All the Clubs" compilation-style with a committee of songwriters, and Ann Hirschfeld called for "Girl at the Bar." Here is her demo.<br />
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<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197476775&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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Video of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wog11oi5k49xyzp/AABgyuS7JP2mMBA-21FmyNqAa/Girl%20at%20the%20Bar_3MB%20MP4.mp4?dl=0">Mary Dalton reading "Girl at the Bar,"</a> recorded just for our show.<br />
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The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">original announcement of the May 30 show</span></a> with more details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Dalton</td></tr>
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-14042161143508086912015-05-26T18:40:00.001-07:002015-05-26T21:46:22.857-07:00A song to a poem about a bar named for a fool in Newfoundland<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus #21, Conception Harbour, Conception Bay" <br />
Scott Walden (2006) <br />
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</span></a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br />
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We are scoring "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</span></a>," a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," according to its subtitle, about the taverns and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland.<br />
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The poet Mary Dalton - like any self-respecting tavern-goer - relishes the names of pubs and social clubs. Throughout the sequence, she names taverns -- and then renames them for what their real names would be if they truly described what happens to people in there.<br />
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In "The Twilick," a prose poem, she savors a few actual tavern names -- and then invents the name of a fictional lounge and imagines a typical scene inside it.<br />
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<strong>The Twillick</strong><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By Mary Dalton</span><br />
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The Blue Moon. The Velvet Hat. The Newfoundland Lounge. They should have a bar called The Twillick. Go in there now and what you’ll see is those fellows—and the women, too—home from Alberta, the SUVs and the monster trucks gleaming in the parking lots, and them huddled over the flash and dash, the blips and beeps of the VLTs, feeding in the dollars they left their place and young ones for, feeding in the big money they got on the planes for. The big money they sold their backs and lungs for, often as not. Or crowded round a pool-table like worshippers at one of those new-fangled centre altars, praying at the shrine of Texas Hold ’Em.<br />
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According to <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XrVbk3EndTcC&pg=PA590&lpg=PA590&dq=twillick&source=bl&ots=Hq4vu9JXzI&sig=ZE__puHWIyy-b9vq0Muf-9WMujQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8RxlVfCuAYTaoATRsYPICQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=twillick&f=false">The Dictionary of Newfoundland English</a></em>, a "twillick" is a long-legged sea shore bird -- and a fool.<br />
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St. Louis songster Mike Stuvland, who is no fool, set "The Twillick" to a wistful acoustic tune that includes my favorite-ever intonation of the phrase "monster trucks" in a song.<br />
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Video of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wog11oi5k49xyzp/AABLBd-PGIUOBbXVVvVgBJwNa/The%20Twillick_3MB%20MP4.mp4?dl=0">Mary Dalton reading "The Twilick"</a> just for our show.<br />
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The series of photographs by Scott Walden, also titled "<a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus</span></a>," that inspired Mary Dalton's poem.<br />
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The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">original announcement of the May 30 show</span></a> with more details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Dalton</td></tr>
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-14131063368068097472015-05-24T12:05:00.000-07:002015-05-24T12:05:15.023-07:00"Riddling" by Mary Dalton and Eric Rose<br />
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By Scott Walden (2006)<br />
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</span></a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br />
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We scored "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</span></a>," a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," according to its subtitle, about the taverns and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland.<br />
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Close to the end of the sequence - poem ten of twelve - the poet Mary Dalton poses a riddle and even titles the poem "Ridding."<br />
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<em><strong>Riddling</strong></em><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">By Mary Dalton</span><br />
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How is a club like a story?<br />
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One may beget the other;<br />
atmosphere is all;<br />
the light is a transforming one;<br />
in the shadows are symbols and myths;<br />
the characters are gathered against the storm;<br />
time stops or expands or shrinks;<br />
epiphanies abound—or fail to occur<br />
the narrator is unreliable.<br />
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With twelve separate poems to work with, we offered them to different songwriters for a compilation-style score. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/eric-rose-songs">Eric Rose</a> volunteered for "Riddling."<br />
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Eric is based out of San Francisco, where he runs a company called <a href="http://www.rightbrainconsultants.com/biography.php">Right Brain Consultants</a>. He played in the Washington University campus band scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the guys who would eventually found Poetry Scores: Matt Fuller, Chris King and Elijah "Lij" Shaw. Eric and Matt formed half of the legendary Wash U campus band Butt of Jokes that first pulled Chris into the campus music scene as a fan and inspired him to start the band with Matt and Elijah (Enormous Richard) that eventually evolved into Poetry Scores.<br />
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"Riddling," after all of these years, is Eric Rose's first contribution to Poetry Scores, though we hope it will be far from his last.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Rose (stretching) with Butt of Jokes, ca. 1989. <br />
Future Poetry Scores cofounder Matt Fuller is on drums.<br />
Stomping on his bass pedal is Ben Herzon, soon of The Bishops.</td></tr>
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The other songwriters on "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus: Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Robert Goetz, Ann Hirschfeld, Michael Martin, Joe Thebeau, Three Fried Men, The Lettuce Heads and Mike Stuvland.<br />
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*<br /><br /> The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">original announcement of the May 30 show</span></a> with more details.<br />
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The series of photographs by Scott Walden, also titled "<a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus</span></a>," that inspired Mary Dalton's poem.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Dalton</td></tr>
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Mary Dalton has published five volumes of poetry, most recently "Hooking" (2013), "Merrybegot" (2003) and "Red Ledger" (2006). Her work has been widely anthologized in Canada and abroad and won many awards.<br />
<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-72436927522113889982015-05-23T12:27:00.004-07:002015-05-24T12:08:08.524-07:00"The Swallowing" by Mary Dalton and Nick Barbieri <br />
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Like I was saying, Poetry Scores has a <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html">live premiere of a new poetry score on Saturday, May 30</a> at the Schlafly Tap Room in downtown St. Louis.<br />
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We scored "<a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5">All the Clubs from Hollyrood to Brigus</a>" by Mary Dalton, a poet of Newfoundland. "All the Clubs" is a twelve-poem sequence of "fictions, ruminations and riddles," as its subtitle says. Poetry Scores assigned the separate poems to different songwriters for an anthology-style score by committee: Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Robert Goetz, Ann Hirschfeld, Michael Martin, Eric Rose, Joe Thebeau, Three Fried Men, The Lettuce Heads and Mike Stuvland all scored Mary Dalton poems.<br />
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The poet has worked very closely with Nick Barbieri, who is producing the score for Poetry Scores. She advised the songwriters about pronunciations of local place names that her Newfoundland neighbors would recognize, recorded new videos of her poems for inclusion in our live show, and generally is cheering the project along.<br />
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As Nick pointed out, it makes sense that Mary Dalton would embrace our musical adaptation of her poems, because her sequence was itself the poetic translation of a series of photographs taken on the road between Holyrood and Brigus, Newfoundland, between 2005 and 2007 by Scott Walden.<br />
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"This series takes as its subject matter the bars and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland," Scott Walden writes of his series of photographs, also titled "<a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html">All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus</a>." <br />
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"As social centres in their communities, the architecture and demographics of the clubs reveal a contemporary rural Newfoundland that is a mixture of young and old, corporate and mom-and-pop, threadbare and shiny new."<br />
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Mary Dalton's poems dive deeper down than architecture or demographics. She dives into the eyes of the club regulars Scott Walden captured with his camera. She sinks to the center and bottom of the human predicament on the social circuit between Holyrood and Brigus. Taverns and clubs are places where people gather together to drink alcohol, play games of skill and chance, and tell each other stories, and Mary Dalton's poems have much to say about why people seek each other's company, the games we play, the dreams and lies of alcohol, how the ritual of story both records experience and transfigures it.<br />
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In addition to producer of the poetry score and director of the big band that will perform it on May 30, Nick Barbieri is also one of the composers for "All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus." Nick scored the seventh poem in the twelve-poem sequence, "The Swallowing," as a four-song suite. In "The Swallowing," the poet dives to the bottom of the glass and of the person swallowing from it. Here are parts three and four of the suite.<br />
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<strong>"The Swallowing" </strong><br />
<strong>(Mary Dalton, Nick Barbieri)</strong><br />
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Performed by Nick Barbieri and friends<br />
Produced by Nick Barbieri<br />
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Mixed by Meghan Gohil of Hollywood Recording Studio, Los Angeles</div>
Mastered by Lij of <a href="http://www.thetoyboxstudio.com/">The Toy Box Studio</a>, East Nashville<br />
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<strong>"The Swallowing, Part 3"</strong><br />
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Nick Barbieri: acoustic guitars, bass, drums, keyboard, timpani & vocals<br />
Brian Henneman (courtesy Bloodshot Records): electric guitars<br />
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Recorded by Nick Barbieri, except vocals recorded by Adam Long<br />
<strong><br />The Swallowing, Part 4"</strong><br />
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Nick Barbieri: drums, bass, piano & vocals<br />
Frank Catalano (courtesy Ropeadope Records): tenor sax<br />
Nathan Pence: upright bass.<br />
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Recorded by Nick Barbieri, except tenor sax recorded by Daniel Steinman, vocals by Adam Long<br />
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"The Swallowing" is available everywhere music is downloaded or streamed on Nick Barbier's solo record "Poetry Scored" (Hollywood Recording Studio) - for example, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poetry-scored/id993936996?ls=1">on iTunes</a>. <br />
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The <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-scores-premieres-musical.html">original announcement of the May 30 show</a> with more details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Dalton<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nick Barbieri<br />
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-75865487168077464172015-05-21T18:35:00.001-07:002015-05-24T12:06:59.321-07:00Poetry Scores premieres musical settings of Newfoundland pub crawl poems<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Poetry Scores will premiere the musical score of a pub crawl poem from Newfoundland at The <a href="http://schlafly.com/">Schlafly Tap Room</a> on Saturday, May 30, along with a CD release by Nick Barbieri and a set of Old Time music by Dugout Canoe.<br />
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This free show starts at 9 p.m. with Nick’s set, followed by the Poetry Scores premiere at 10 p.m. and Dugout Canoe at 11 p.m. The Tap Room is located at 2100 Locust St. in downtown St. Louis and is a full-service restaurant and bar specializing in homemade beer. Poetry Scores is a St. Louis-based artist collective that translates poetry into other media.<br />
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A band of Poetry Scores veterans, with some newcomers, will perform new musical scores of “All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus,” a poetic sequence about Newfoundland pubs and the people who pass through them by Mary Dalton. <br />
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Mary Dalton's poem is itself a poetic score of <a href="http://scottwalden.net/clubs.html">a series of photographs of the same name</a> (2005-2007) by Scott Walden.<br />
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"This series takes as its subject matter the bars and social clubs that line a 16-mile stretch of one of the oldest highways in Newfoundland, one whose communities have been buffeted by many of the major post-confederation changes: the new industries, the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway, the elimination of the Newfoundland Railway, the ‘70s-era emigration for high-steel jobs in the United States, the moratorium on the fishery, and the ‘90s-era emigration of youth to Alberta," Walden writes. <br />
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"As social centres in their communities, the architecture and demographics of the clubs reveal a contemporary rural Newfoundland that is a mixture of young and old, corporate and mom-and-pop, threadbare and shiny new."<br />
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The twelve poems in the sequence have been scored by local songsters Joe Thebeau, Michael Martin, Three Fried Men, The Lettuce Heads, Mike Stuvland, Ann Hirschfeld, Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit and Robert Goetz, plus a score by Eric Rose of San Francisco (co-frontman in the seminal 1980s Wash U campus band Butt of Jokes).<br />
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The Poetry Scores house big band performing the scores will include Perry Anselman, Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Steve Carosello, Heidi Dean, Eileen Gannon, Robert Goetz, Meghan Gohil, Ann Hirschfeld, Adam Long, Michael Martin, David Melson, Brian Messina, Mark Overton, Jon Parsons and Geoffrey Seitz.<br />
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The Lettuce Heads’ two scores will feature Fred Friction and Stefene Russell, respectively, performing Mary Dalton’s poetry over recordings of Lettuce Heads garage jams. <br />
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Before each of the scores, Mary Dalton will perform the poem being set to music, on video from Newfoundland produced specially for this event.<br />
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Mary Dalton has published five volumes of poetry, most recently "Hooking" (2013), "Merrybegot" (2003) and "Red Ledger" (2006). Her work has been widely anthologized in Canada and abroad and won many awards.<br />
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As the opening act at 9 p.m., Nick Barbieri will celebrate the release of his debut album “Poetry Scored.” The same augmented Poetry Scores all stars will back Nick performing his scores of poems by Andreas Embirikos (translated by Nikos Stabakis), Chris King, Josephine Miles and Albert Saijo, as well as a cover of “Midget’s” by St. Louis songster Chuck Reinhart and several songs with Nick’s own lyrics.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nick Barbieri leading the Poetry Scores all stars <br />
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“Poetry Scored” has already been released by Hollywood Recording Studio and is available wherever music is downloaded or streamed - for example, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poetry-scored/id993936996?ls=1">on iTunes</a>.<br />
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The night concludes at 11 p.m. with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAeBaoUlM7s">Dugout Canoe</a>, arguably the greatest Old Time music band on the planet. Geoff Seitz, Dave Landreth, Marc Rennard and Andy Gribble are all legends in their own rights (and minds). Taken together, they are that much more legendary (and mental).<br />
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Questions? Nick Barbieri, <a href="mailto:nickbedrock@gmail.com">nickbedrock@gmail.com</a>, or Chris King, <a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com">brodog@hotmail.com</a>.<br />
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Download a PDF of <a href="https://app.box.com/s/230ghk3j1lvnu44718a5">“All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus”</a> by Mary Dalton<br />
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-35901607588254132012014-05-20T19:39:00.000-07:002014-05-20T19:59:05.058-07:00Poetry Scores to premiere live score of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" <br />
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Poetry Scores will premiere "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" 9 p.m. Friday, May 23 at the <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/">Schlafly Tap Room</a>, 2121 Locust. A band of Poetry Scores regulars will perform 10 new scores of the 10 parts of the poem by Josephine Miles, with a different woman reading each of the 10 pieces of poetry before the songs.<br />
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The premiere will be followed at 10 p.m. by the duet Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit, and then at 11 p.m. by Dugout Canoe, a local all-star old-time music group. The show is free and open to the public. <br />
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The band performing "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" will be Nick Barbieri (drums, guitar, vocals), Mark Buckheit (guitars, vocals), Heidi Dean (keyboards, vocals), Eileen Gannon (harp), Adam Long (cello) and Tracy Swigert (guitar, vocals).<br />
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They will perform new poetry scores of Josephine Miles' poetry by Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Mike Burgett, Heidi Dean, Robert Goetz, Ann Hirschfeld, Chris King/David Melson, Michael Martin, Tracy Swigert and Joe Thebeau.<br />
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The women reading the 10 parts of the poem before the songs will be Beth Barbieri, Gina Dill-Thebeau, Catherine Eiler, Yaphett El-Amin, Kimberley Hughes, Julie Malone, Mali Newman, Nicky Rainey, Stefene Russell and Nina Thompson.<br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi"><span style="color: #5588aa;">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</span></a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
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"Ten Dreamers" may be the first poem published where the motor hotel -- the motel -- is the defining organizing principle. The poem peeks briefly into ten separate sets of lives, brought together momentarily by the accident of a shared stopping space along the road. We're introduced to these ten sets of lives through brilliant flashes of poetic language, like headlights through motel curtains, with the abrupt symbolism and concentrated emotional power of dreams. <br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/josephine-miles"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles</span></a> (1911-1985) was a major American poet from California who has never quite been recognized as such. She was the first tenured woman professor in the English Department at the University of California - Berkeley, but her poetry was under-appreciated by the male-dominated literary establishment of her time. Her work, best represented in <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983), is ripe for rediscovery.<br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Download the poem</span></a>.<br />
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<strong><br />PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT "TEN DREAMERS"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-mark-buckheit.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles scored by Mark Buckheit and Shana Norton</span></a><br />
<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-mike-burgett.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles scored by Mike Burgett and Cindy Royal</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-heidi-dean.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles scored by Heidi Dean and Robin Street-Morris</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</span></a> <br />
<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-michael.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone</span></a><br />
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Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-88176550020554635782014-04-30T05:46:00.000-07:002014-04-30T05:46:51.624-07:00Free local screening to celebrate film festival appearace in Rio<br />
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Poetry Scores will co-host a free screening of its 2013 movie "Go South for Animal Index" at 7 p.m. Friday, May 16 at <a href="http://nebulastl.com/">Nebula</a>, 3407 So. Jefferson at Cherokee, to celebrate the movie's screening that same day at the 2014 International Uranium Film Festival, which is being held at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
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Preservationist and architectural historian Michael R. Allen will co-host and emcee the St. Louis screening. The event is free, but please <a href="http://gosouth.brownpapertickets.com/">sign up at Brown Paper Tickets</a> if you plan to attend so organizers can estimate attendance. Nebula is a smoke-free environment. Limited complimentary drinks will be provided, though the public is welcome to bring their own drinks.<br />
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Michael R. Allen is part of the movie's large ensemble cast that includes many well-known St. Louisans, including former fire chief Sherman George, international burlesque stars Lola van Ella and Kyla Webb, musician Tory Z Starbuck, writer Thomas Crone, African-dance impresario Mama Lisa Gage, and the late George Malich in his final screen performance.<br />
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Doors for the free St. Louis screening are 6:30 p.m. The program will start at 7 p.m. with brief remarks by Michael R. Allen, followed by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R8uqCFxblI">a brief (6:33) micro-documentary</a> about the making of "Go South" produced by Thomas Crone and directed by Andy Alton. <br />
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After the documentary, Stefene Russell will read <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-poem-by-stefene-russell-was-scored.html">her poem, "Go South for Animal Index,"</a> which spawned the movie. Poetry Scores first set her poem about the Bomb to post-punk rock music and then shot and edited a feature silent film to that score.<br />
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After the reading, Michael R. Allen will interview Norbert Suchanek, co-founder of the <a href="https://app.box.com/s/lqkb5x0r22bfxpan5cf9">International Uranium Film Festival</a>, in Rio de Janeiro via Skype. "Go South" will have screened earlier that day at the Modern in Rio and Norbert can talk about how the movie was received and how the festival is going overall.<br />
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After the interview, at about 7:30 p.m., we will screen "<a href="http://www.cinemastlouis.org/go-south-animal-index-fable-los-alamos-0">Go South for Animal Index</a>," a 90-minute feature.<br />
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"Go South for Animal Index" was directed by Chris King and edited by Dan Cross. The silent movie was shot and edited to <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/04/go-south-for-animal-index-poetry-score.html">a post-punk rock score</a> of Stefene Russell's poem co-produced by Matt Fuller and Chris King. It was produced by Poetry Scores, an all-volunteer international arts organization based in St. Louis that translates poetry into any and all other media. <br />
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<em>For more information, contact Chris King at </em><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em>To sign up and let organizers you know you plan to come, </em><a href="http://gosouth.brownpapertickets.com/"><em>visit Brown Paper Tickets</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-55318748744218414872014-04-27T17:28:00.000-07:002014-04-27T17:28:09.454-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Ann Hirschfeld and Sarah Giannobile<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
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This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
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<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> hosted a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" Friday, April 25 at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art in response to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
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Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That score will be performed live<strong> 9 p.m. Friday May, 23</strong> at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, with ten women reading the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. This free show will be followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.).<br />
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Here is a demo of Ann Hirschfeld's poetry score of the 10th and final numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with <a href="http://www.sarahgiannobile.com/">Sarah Giannobile</a>'s visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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"<a href="https://app.box.com/s/84zheg76i3awjxy22nsb">Durable Darkness</a>" <span style="font-size: x-small;">(3:05) demo</span><br />
(Josephine Miles, Ann Hirschfeld)<br />
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Performed and recorded by Ann Hirschfeld<br />
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Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2013 Ann Hirschfeld<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at </em></span><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.</em></span><br />
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<strong>Ann Hirschfeld</strong> is a versatile veteran of the St. Louis independent rock music scene. She grew up playing in adolescent bands with the likes of Carl Pandolfi and Michael Martin. She was co-leader of Plaid Cattle, a stalwart of the Cicero's Basement Bar scene of the late '80s and early '90s. Now she plays in The Deciders and a duet with Mark Buckheit and has emerged as a primary songwriter force for Poetry Scores. In November 2013 she led the Snow White All Stars in the live premiere of her poetry score to Anne Sexton's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (recording forthcoming later this year). She also has a song on the second Poetry Scores Hawaii project, devoted to Beat poet Albert Saijo (forthcoming in 2015, paired with a national juried art exhibition in the Art Department at the University of Hawaii - Hilo).<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Ann and Sarah translated into their respective media:<br />
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<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>10.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
Midway stayed at a court between there and here<br />
Where woodsmoke rose up straight into the sky,<br />
Cabin by cabin the suppers cooking<br />
Far as the eye could see, the courts unfolding<br />
Durable darkness.<br />
<br />
It was the tent and citadel of the many stars,<br />
It was the rampart of the loud highway<br />
And we slept there, waking<br />
Into the thunder and silence of the unfolding<br />
Durable journey.<br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Ann Hirschfeld leads the live premiere of her score of Anne Sexton's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XSHRVKQmmM&feature=youtu.be">Part 1</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(poetry score starts at 5:10)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLROOdvML0I&feature=youtu.be">Part 2</a><br />
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Ann Hirschfeld in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfInq1IKSM">The Deciders Deluxe covering Guided By Voices</a><br />
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Ann Hirschfeld's <a href="https://soundcloud.com/the-divine-hammer/ghost">awesome song "Ghost"</a><br />
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Ann Hirschfeld <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJfwAIteMWY">in Plaid Cattle on Critical Mass (1993)</a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(First song Ann leads is "Sense of Humor" at 5:57.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Josephine Miles<br />
Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.lclark.edu/revealjs/staffordphotoexhibit.html">William Stafford</a></td></tr>
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<strong>ALSO FROM "TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-mark-buckheit.html">Josephine Miles scored by Mark Buckheit and Shana Norton</a><br />
<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-mike-burgett.html">Josephine Miles scored by Mike Burgett and Cindy Royal</a><br />
<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-heidi-dean.html">Josephine Miles scored by Heidi Dean and Robin Street-Morris</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</a> <br />
<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-michael.html">Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone</a><br />
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<em>Read </em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores"><em>@PoetryScores on Twitter</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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<em></em><br />Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-66583595192168676202014-04-24T05:23:00.000-07:002014-04-24T05:23:38.888-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Mike Burgett and Cindy Royal<br />
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"Mica Moraine" by Cindy Royal </div>
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(after Josephine Miles)</div>
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mixed media</div>
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
<br />
This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" <strong>6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25</strong> at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art in response to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
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Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That score will be performed live<strong> 9 p.m. Friday May, 23</strong> at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, with ten women reading the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. This free show will be followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.).<br />
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Here is a demo of Mike Burgett's poetry score of the 5th numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with <a href="http://openstudios-stl.org/client_page/cindy-royal/">Cindy Royal'</a>s' visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/146196455&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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<strong>"Moraine"</strong> <span style="font-size: x-small;">demo</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(2:22)</span><br />
(Josephine Miles, Mike Burgett)<br />
Performed and recorded by Mike Burgett<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2013 Mike Burgett<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at </em></span><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike Burgett,<br />
Snow White mirror selfie<br />
(after Anne Sexton)</td></tr>
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Mike Burgett has been the voice and songwriting power behind some of St. Louis' greatest quirky pop, as co-frontman of Aviation Club, which evolved into <a href="http://www.thelettuceheads.com/Welcome.html">The Lettuce Heads</a> -- a marvel of pop songcraft and ensemble rock musicianship that somehow survived from the early 1990s to the present day in its original quartet. The second Lettuce Heads record, long available only in coterie bootlegs but finally released as <em><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/LettuceHeads">For Promotional Use Only</a></em>, remains one of the most fantastic rock records almost nobody has heard. Mike is now an active contributing songwriter with Poetry Scores, most recently in its ongoing <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2013/12/poetry-scores-will-translate.html">poetry score of Ludwig Wittgenstein'</a>s <em>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</em>. He also has a song on the second Poetry Scores Hawaii project, devoted to Beat poet Albert Saijo (forthcoming in 2015, paired with a national juried art exhibition in the Art Department at the University of Hawaii - Hilo).<br />
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*<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Mike and Cindy translated into their respective media:<br />
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<br />
<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
<br />
<strong></strong><br />
<strong>5.</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
Carombed out of town in a comedy-chase fashion,<br />
Police oblique to our path, and statues<br />
Wheeled over, through Harlem, and all more wasteful as we went,<br />
And ended up at this tourist cabin,<br />
Its outlook, so it was said, restful.<br />
<br />
Went to the window,<br />
Pushed aside the curtains and there saw<br />
That countryside we longed for: rocks,<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Steep slopes of rocks, rubble and rusk of rocks.<br />What is it? and you said, <em>moraine.</em></span><br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Mike Burgett in <a href="http://confluencecity.blogspot.com/2009/09/bootblogging-17-yet-more-lettuce-heads.html">The Lettuce Heads on Confluence City</a><br />
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Mike Burgett with <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2009/02/las-vegas-dace-scored-by-lettuceheads.html">The Lettuce Heads scoring Stefene Russell's "Las Vegas Dace"</a><br />
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Mike Burgett noodling around that <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/12/alcohol-and-used-father-peyote-with.html">K. Curtis Lyle liked for a score of his poetry</a><br />
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Mike Burgett in the nowadays <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A82260F415718C6">Lettuce Heads live at Stone Spiral Coffeehouse</a><br />
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<strong>ALSO FROM "TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-mark-buckheit.html">Josephine Miles scored by Mark Buckheit and Shana Norton</a><br />
<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-heidi-dean.html">Josephine Miles scored by Heidi Dean and Robin Street-Morris</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</a> <br />
<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-michael.html">Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone</a><br />
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<em>Read </em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores"><em>@PoetryScores on Twitter</em></a><em>.</em><br />
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"Mica Moraine" by Cindy Royal </div>
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(after Josephine Miles)</div>
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mixed media</div>
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Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-50238658809329868692014-04-23T10:08:00.000-07:002014-04-23T10:08:22.936-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Mark Buckheit and Shana Norton<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Concern" by Shana Norton <br />
(after Josephine Miles)<br />
transparency film, fabric</td></tr>
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
<br />
This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" <strong>6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25</strong> at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art in response to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
<br />
Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That live score will be presented<strong> 9 p.m. Friday May, 23</strong> at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, with ten women reading the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. This free show is followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.).<br />
<br />
Here is a demo of Mark Buckheit's poetry score of the 3rd numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with Shana Norton' visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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<strong></strong><br />
<strong>Free mp3</strong><br />
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<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/146073170&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe>
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<strong>"Dreamer #3"</strong> <span style="font-size: x-small;">demo</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(2:59)</span><br />
(Josephine Miles, Mark Buckheit)<br />
Performed and recorded by Mark Buckheit<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2014 Mark Buckheit<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at </em></span><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark Buckheit</td></tr>
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Mark Buckheit is a veteran of St. Louis' independent rock music scene whose work would be much better known had he been luckier or better suited temperamentally for putting himself forward. He was a co-frontman for Three Foot Thick, an inventive folk/rock band that was present at the birth of St. Louis' twang scene but strangely overlooked. Mark sings <a href="https://app.box.com/s/ugjbhmzlx6sp8sontq4n">"Cole Porter Kind of Day,"</a> Three Foot Thick's contribution to Rick Wood's seminal <em>Out of the Gate</em> compilation (1990), and it still holds up on that tape next to the earliest and best work of Uncle Tupelo and Chicken Truck (The Bottle Rockets). Mark now plays in The Deciders, in a duet with Ann Hirschfeld, and in the Poetry Scores house band Three Fried Men.<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Mark and Shana translated into their respective medium:<br />
<br />
<br />
<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
<br />
<strong></strong><br />
<strong>3.</strong><br />
<br />
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<br />
One day we started out<br />
To pick up driftwood. I was interested<br />
In a housing project there, I had heard a lecture<br />
Illuminating the beach like lightning.<br />
It was my concern<br />
To raise on the shingle rows of boards<br />
On which the great foundations could be built.<br />
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Rather, I found the shanties were up already,<br />
And indeed down already, every one<br />
Empty to the tide as if just then<br />
They had been lived in but would live no more.<br />
I turned round.<br />
If I had been looking south I looked north<br />
East west I turned<span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Mark Buckheit in Three Foot Thick <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8N5o2E0MgE">on Critical Mass</a><br />
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Mark Buckheit in Three Foot Thick on the <a href="http://stlpunkarchive.omeka.net/items/show/219">Archive of St. Louis Punk</a><br />
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Mark Buckheit on Three Fried Men's <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-catholic-church-in-waikiki.html">poetry score of Wayne Kaumualii Westlake</a><br />
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Mark Buckheit on Three Fried Men's <a href="http://erichall.bandcamp.com/track/man-with-briefcase-at-2968443">musical adaptation of a Jonathan Borofsky sculpture</a><br />
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<strong>ALSO FROM "TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-heidi-dean.html">Josephine Miles scored by Heidi Dean and Robin Street-Morris</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</a> <br />
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<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-michael.html">Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone</a><br />
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<em>Read </em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores"><em>@PoetryScores on Twitter</em></a><em>.</em>Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-82320351027664849492014-04-22T08:01:00.000-07:002014-04-22T11:25:22.100-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Heidi Dean and Robin Street-Morris<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Lampless Bastions" by Robin Street-Morris,<br />
(after Josephine Miles), 2014. <br />
Watercolor and pastel on 300lb incised hot press paper. <br />
12" x 20" (30 x 51cm).</td></tr>
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
<br />
This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" <strong>6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25</strong> at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art in response to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
<br />
Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That live score will be presented<strong> 9 p.m. Friday May, 23</strong> at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, with ten women reading the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. This free show is followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.).<br />
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Here is a demo of Heidi Dean's poetry score of the 6th numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with <a href="http://streetmorrisart.com/">Robin Street-Morris</a>' visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Lampless Bastions" by Robin Street-Morris,<br />
(after Josephine Miles), 2014. <br />
Watercolor and pastel on 300lb incised hot press paper. <br />
12" x 20" (30 x 51cm).</td></tr>
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<strong>Free mp3</strong><br />
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<strong>"<a href="https://soundcloud.com/poetry-scores/when-we-came-back-josephine">When we came back</a></strong><strong>" </strong>(2:06)<br />
(Josephine Miles, Heidi Dean)<br />
Performed and recorded by Heidi Dean<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(Open link in new tab to keep reading blog.)</em></span><br />
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Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2014 Heidi Dean<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at </em></span><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heidi Dean,<br />
grooving on new bifocals</td></tr>
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Heidi Dean could be considered a founding member of Poetry Scores. She played a primary role in the Po Sco house band, Three Fried Men, before it evolved into an arts organization; has some important vocal pieces on the first poetry score, <em>Crossing America</em> by Leo Connellan; sings harmony on the subsequent scores <em>Blind Cat Black, <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/04/go-south-for-animal-index-poetry-score.html">Go South for Animal Index</a> </em>and <em><a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/04/sydney-highrise-variations-poetry-score.html">The Sydney Highrise Variations</a></em>; performed on the premiere of Ann Hirschfeld's score of <em>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</em> by Anne Sexton; and is now composing part of the score to <em>Ten Dreamers in a Motel</em> and performing in its premiere. Parenthood has sidetracked music in Heidi's life, for now, but perhaps she still has copies of her 2005 record with The Honeyshakers, which has more of her eloquent songwriting. "When we came back" is both her first poetry score and her first composition on piano.<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Heidi and Robin translated into their respective medium:<br />
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<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
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<strong>6.</strong><br />
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When we came back all the underpasses were flooded,<br />
Highway 40 blocked off<br />
And six inches of water at the supermarket.<br />
So it was necessary to go round by the byroads.<br />
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So it was that we came to our street from a different view,<br />
Saw our neighborhood from aside and below,<br />
Stacked up the hill our houses in their shrub,<br />
Their windows empty as an evening sky.<br />
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And so it was we saw that they dwelt without us,<br />
Endured merrily as bastions against our presence,<br />
Persons of note and self in the rainy evening,<br />
Lampless and starless.<br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Heidi Dean sings on Three Fried Men's <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2009/02/heidi-dean-2-sings-ghost-songs-of-drunk.html">prose score of Sam Blowsnake's autobiography</a><br />
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Heidi Dean sings on Three Fried Men's <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2009/02/heidi-dean-1-she-is-one-who-sweetens.html">hieroglyphic score of creepy ancient Egyptian stuff</a><br />
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Photos: <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2009/09/heidi-dean-overdubs-on-nashville.html">Heidi Dean overdubs on Nashville Highrise Variations</a><br />
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<strong>ALSO FROM "TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</a> <br />
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<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-michael.html">Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone</a><br />
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<em>Read </em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores"><em>@PoetryScores on Twitter</em></a><em>.</em>Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-88073385478000482062014-04-22T03:13:00.001-07:002014-04-23T22:06:24.489-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Michael Martin and Julie Malone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHlOiLMAd2BZfUN8_2wm9oTK7nGgpNdWz0RNHggjx88pgbgLN9OKoGiO1E4cs4RgZwBR4ZzgzR1twAo-Y236kTw7Kuiy6iYU0FXUgDK8-gUHu0cG9wEbdfgSmMSu8ZQQeIVXwQt9JPPd0/s1600/ten.dreamers.julie.malone.do+not+despair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHlOiLMAd2BZfUN8_2wm9oTK7nGgpNdWz0RNHggjx88pgbgLN9OKoGiO1E4cs4RgZwBR4ZzgzR1twAo-Y236kTw7Kuiy6iYU0FXUgDK8-gUHu0cG9wEbdfgSmMSu8ZQQeIVXwQt9JPPd0/s1600/ten.dreamers.julie.malone.do+not+despair.jpg" height="320" width="199" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Do Not Despair" by Julie Malone <br />
(after Josephine Miles)<br />
Oil on Panel, 16" x 25.5</td></tr>
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
<br />
This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dreams).<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" <strong>6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25</strong> at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art in response to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
<br />
Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That live score will be presented<strong> 9 p.m. Friday May, 23</strong> at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, with ten women reading the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. This free show is followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.).<br />
<br />
Here is a demo of Michael Martin's poetry score of the 9th numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with <a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/artists/julie-malone/">Julie Malone</a>'s visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Do Not Despair" by Julie Malone <br />
(after Josephine Miles)<br />
Oil on Panel, 16" x 25.5</td></tr>
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<strong>Free mp3</strong><br />
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<strong>"</strong><a href="https://app.box.com/s/mbbljn56wf5zvw0odptt"><strong>Fast in darkness</strong></a><strong>" </strong>(3:09)<br />
(Josephine Miles, Michael Martin)<br />
Performed and recorded by Michael Martin<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>(Open link in new window to keep reading blog.)</em></span><br />
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Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2013 Michael Martin<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at </em></span><a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>brodog@hotmail.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Martin<br />
Photo from Mark Buckheit<br />
"Scenes from a MAMJam"</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.mikemartinstl.com/">Michael Martin</a> has been everywhere in St. Louis' independent rock music scene, though most people probably didn't notice him because his most public work has been behind the scenes, as a supporting musician and producer. He was a founding member of the Painkillers (arguably St. Louis' greatest post-punk band), played in and produced Bob's Reuter's band Kamikaze Cowboy (which made arguably St. Louis' best rock record, <em>Down in America</em>) and is now an integral member of Karate Bikini and The Deciders. He also is a busy and influential producer in his <a href="http://www.mikemartinstl.com/broom-factory.html">Broom Factory</a> studio. This demo of "Fast in Darkness" is his first poetry score and instantly the best pop song Poetry Scores has published.<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Michael and Julie translated into their respective medium:<br />
<br />
<br />
<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
<br />
<strong>9.</strong><br />
<br />
I said to my iron class, I am desperate, desperate,<br />
You must learn and you will not.<br />
Each by each I looked to into the light and said<br />
You are fast in darkness.<br />
<br />
Each to each I said I am desperate, desperate.<br />
Then one rose from his seat and sat beside me,<br />
Touching my hand and saying, out of his daylight,<br />
Do not despair.
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Michael Martin in Karate Bikini <a href="http://kdhx.org/music/live-performances/karate-bikini-7-18-12">Live on KDHX</a><br />
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Michael Martin in Kamikaze Cowboy <em><a href="http://bobreuter.bandcamp.com/album/kamikaze-cowboy-down-in-america">Down in America</a></em><br />
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The Painkillers <a href="http://label.euclidrecords.com/releases/the-painkillers/">on Euclid Records</a><br />
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<strong>ALSO FROM "TEN DREAMERS IN A MOTEL"</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/josephine-miles-scored-by-joe-thebeau.html">Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker</a> <br />
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<em>Read </em><a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores"><em>@PoetryScores on Twitter</em></a><em>.</em>Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-41340046987133526292014-04-19T10:05:00.000-07:002014-04-19T18:17:49.265-07:00Josephine Miles scored by Joe Thebeau and Carrie M. Becker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poetry Scores' Spring 2014 project in our home city of St. Louis is devoted to <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel."</a><br />
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This poem by Josephine Miles (1911-1985) was published in her 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, a prescient - perhaps prophetic - registry of changes in the American built landscape and how that changed the way people construct their own reality (and dream worlds).<br />
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<a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/2014/04/soha-hosts-poetry-scores-art.html">Poetry Scores art invitational</a> based on "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" 6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25 at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave. Julie Malone and Kat Dunne of SOHA commissioned ten women artists to each make visual art to one of the poem's ten numbered sections.<br />
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Poetry Scores also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That live score will be presented 9 p.m. Friday May, 23 at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">The Tap Room</span></a>, 2121 Locust, followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.). Ten women will read the ten numbered parts of the poem in between the songs. It's a free show. <br />
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Here is Joe Thebeau's score of the 8th numbered section of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel," paired with <a href="http://www.carriembeckerart.com/">Carrie M. Becker</a>'s visual adaptation of the same passage of poetry. <br />
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1/6th scale diorama / miniature shadow box</td></tr>
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<strong>Free mp3</strong><br />
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"<a href="https://app.box.com/s/kwl4odaer9wn7xtvq5eo">This weariness</a>"<br />
(Josephine Miles, Joe Thebeau)<br />
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Performed and recorded by Joe Thebeau<br />
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Poetry (c) 1955 Josephine Miles<br />
Music (c) 2013 Joe Thebeau<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe Thebeau<br />
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This recording may be freely shared for non-commercial uses. For any other usage, contact Poetry Scores at <a href="mailto:brodog@hotmail.com">brodog@hotmail.com</a> and we will connect you with the composer and the poet's estate.<br />
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Here is the part of the poem Joe and Carrie translated into their respective medium:<br />
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<em>from "Ten Dreamers in a Motel" by Josephine Miles</em><br />
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<strong>8.</strong><br />
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I went to consult a psychiatrist on this morning,<br />
A nervous woman, whose curly-headed four-year-old child<br />
Played in the room, sitting staunchly<br />
On a great medical scales.<br />
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I defended myself thus. It looks as if<br />
All this weariness came from too much work,<br />
But rather I think it a problem of person,<br />
Friend or foe, fortune of parent or pardon.<br />
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The nervous psychiatrist ran her hand through her hair<br />
And glanced at her watch. Have you taken a trip lately,<br />
It would do you good, and take your mother with you,<br />
She needs it more than you do.<br />
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Then I laughed to hear my own prescription<br />
Given to myself with such good humor<br />
In the gray weariness. But then she said also,<br />
Take with you also my curly-headed four-year-old child.<br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">"Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> was published in Josephine Miles' 1955 book <em>Prefabrications</em>, which is included in her <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press, 1983).<br />
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Joe Thebeau of Finn's Motel <a href="http://kdhx.org/music/live-performances/joe-thebeau-of-finns-motel">live on KDHX (four songs)</a><br />
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Finn's Motel <a href="https://myspace.com/finnsmotel/music/songs">on MySpace</a><br />
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The Finn's Motel record <em>Escape Velocity</em> is available at many online music portals.<br />
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Read <a href="https://twitter.com/poetryscores">@PoetryScores on Twitter</a>.Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-12364365848942427602014-04-14T07:42:00.002-07:002014-04-14T07:42:32.347-07:00SOHA hosts Poetry Scores art invitational Friday, April 25<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">SOHA </a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">Studio + Gallery</a> will host a one-night-only Poetry Scores art invitational 6-10 p.m. Friday, April 25 at the gallery, 4915 Macklind Ave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">SOHA asked ten women artists to respond to the poem “Ten Dreamers in a Motel” by Josephine Miles. The participating artists are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.carriembeckerart.com/">Carrie M. Becker</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.sarahgiannobile.com/">Sarah Giannobile</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/katatomiclabs">Kat Kissick</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/belinda.lee.735/about">Belinda Lee</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/artists/julie-malone/">Julie Malone</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shana.norton.7/about">Shana Norton</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.kungfuchicken.com/">Carmelita Nunez</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.streetmorrisart.com/">Robin Street-Morris</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/cindyland6">Cindy Royal</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.kelseyviola.com/">Kelsey Viola Wiskirchen</a> </span></div>
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In a classic Poetry Scores art invitational, visual artists are asked to respond to the same poem and title the work after a quote from the poem, then arrange the works according to where in the flow of the poem the language used for the title appears. For this invitational, each of the ten artists was assigned one of the poem's ten numbered parts.<br />
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Professionally mounted, original works of art will be exhibited and for sale in a variety of sizes and formats. Proceeds from sales will be split evenly between the artist, SOHA, and Poetry Scores, a St. Louis-based international arts organization that translates poetry into other media.<br />
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For more information on the art invitational, visit <a href="http://www.sohastudioandgallery.com/">www.sohastudioandgallery.com</a> or call Julie Malone (314-497-5202) or Kat Dunne (314-780-5151). Look around here at <a href="http://www.poetryscores.blogspot.com/">www.Poetryscores.blogspot.com</a> for more information on Poetry Scores.<br />
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<em>Image: Robin Street-Morris' contribution to the show "Lampless Bastions," after Josephine Miles,<br /> 2014. Watercolor and pastel on 300lb incised hot press paper. 12" x 20" (30 x 51cm).</em><br />
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">“Ten Dreamers in a Motel"</a> is from Josephine Miles' 1955 collection <em>Prefabrications</em>. As its title brilliantly suggests, <em>Prefabrications </em>is about changes in the built environment of America, circa mid-20th century, and how that affected the mental and emotional constructions people place upon the world and the people in it. <br />
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"Ten Dreamers" may be the first poem ever where the motor hotel -- the motel -- is the defining organizing principle. The poem peeks briefly into ten separate sets of lives, brought together momentarily by nothing more than the accident of a shared stopping space along the road. We're introduced to these ten sets of lives through brilliant flashes of poetic language, like headlights through motel curtains, with the abrupt symbolism and concentrated emotional power of dreams. <a href="https://app.box.com/s/j2gji45q6uy1plbztomi">Download the poem</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/josephine-miles">Josephine Miles</a> (1911-1985) was a major American poet from California who has never quite been recognized as such. She was the first tenured woman professor in the English department at the University of California - Berkeley, but her poetry suffered in the male-dominated literary establishment of her time. Her work, best represented in <em>Collected Poems</em> (University of Illinois Press), is ripe for rediscovery.<br />
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<strong>Poetry Scores</strong> also has commissioned ten musical scores to the ten numbered parts of "Ten Dreamers in a Motel." That live score will be presented 9 p.m. Friday May, 23 at <a href="http://schlafly.com/tap-room/">The Tap Room</a>, 2121 Locust, followed by Ann Hirschfeld and Mark Buckheit (10 p.m.) and Dugout Canoe (11 p.m.). It's a free show. <br />
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The ten composers are Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Mike Burgett, Heidi Dean, Robert Goetz, Ann Hirschfeld, Chris King & David Melson, Michael Martin, Tracy Swigert, Joe Thebeau. These songs will be performed Nick Barbieri, Mark Buckheit, Heidi Dean, Adam Long and Tracy Swigert, with ten women reading the ten parts of the poem before each of the ten songs.<br />
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Poetry Scores was excited to learn that our movie "Go South for Animal Index" has been accepted to screen at the 2014 <a href="http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/">Uranium Film Festival</a> in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
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It is one of 53 movies involving uranium that will screen May 14 to May 24 in the Cinemateque of <a href="http://www.museusdorio.com.br/joomla/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=97:museu-de-arte-moderna-do-rio-de-janeiro-mam-rio-museum-of-modern-art-of-rio-de-janeiro-mam-rio">Rio de Janeiro´s Modern Art Museum</a>. It will be considered for a 2014 "Yellow Oscar" Award; winners will be announced at the awards ceremony May 24.<br />
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We owe this honor to Dan Cross, who edited our movie and is one of its directors of photography and cinematographers. Dan spotted the festival, went through the trouble of subtitling our movie so it would be eligible, submitted it, and managed the submissions process. A big thanks to Dan, who is a volunteer on our projects, like everyone else in Poetry Scores.<br />
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We hope to raise funds to send Stefene Russell to Rio for the screening. Stefene wrote <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-poem-by-stefene-russell-was-scored.html">the poem "Go South for Animal Index,"</a> which was set to post-punk rock music by Matt Fuller and Chris King. Chris then imagined and directed a silent zombie movie to that <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/04/go-south-for-animal-index-poetry-score.html">post-punk rock score</a>, and our movie is the result. Stefene also provides voice on the score and plays a major part in the movie.<br />
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This will be "Go South for Animal Index"'s second appearance at an international film festival - it played November 2013 at the <a href="http://www.cinemastlouis.org/go-south-animal-index-fable-los-alamos-0">St. Louis International Film Festival</a> - but its first screening overseas and Poetry Scores' first screening at an international film festival outside of the U.S.<br />
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Our first movie, "Blind Cat Black," has screened at independent public screenings in Istanbul and Cannakale, Turkey.<br />
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The Uranium Film Festival organizers asked for a director's statement, so we provided one, even though Poetry Scores' collective way of making movies doesn't square very well with the <em>auteur</em> notion of filmmaking by a director who gets sole credit for a film.<br />
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<strong>"Go South for Animal Index" </strong><br />
<strong>Director's Statement</strong><br />
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I directed "Go South for Animal Index," a cinematic fable of Los Alamos, with the St. Louis (Missouri, U.S.)-based arts collective Poetry Scores, which translates poetry into other media. Our movie started as a poem about the Bomb by Stefene Russell, who grew up downwind of the Nevada Test Site. We scored Stefene's poem for post-punk rock music, and then shot and edited a feature-length silent zombie movie to that post-punk rock score. Stefene's poem is really about the psychic burden of the Bomb's existence and encodes the Bomb's history from the infancy of nuclear physics to the present day. Our movie uses many of her poem's ideas, especially its Navajo cosmogony, but narrows the narrative to Los Alamos and adopts the primitive storytelling style of the fable. Our movie was shot on no budget and directed by an amateur. The editor, Dan Cross, assembled the 90-minute movie from director's notes that have the brevity of a folk tale, so the end visual result was a surprise to all of us. It reminds me somewhat of Michael Jackson's narrative videos, the American television classic "Gilligan's Island" (Gilligan's Alamos) and low-budget Turkish adaptations of "Star Wars." -- <em>Chris King</em><br />
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Here are all the films selected for the 4th International Film Festival Rio de Janeiro.<br />
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11:02 DE 1945. Brasil/Argentina, 2014, 31 min, Director Roberto Fernández<br />
25 JAHRE TSCHERNOBYL, Germany/Ukraina, 27 min, Director Rainer Ludwigs<br />
A WOMAN FROM FUKUSHIMA. Japan, 2014, 56 min, Director Yumiko Hayakawa.<br />
A2-B-C. Japan, 2013, 71 min, Director Ian Thomas Ash.<br />
AFTER ALL. Poland, 2013, 5 min, Director Bogna Kowalczyk.<br />
ANOTHER CHERNOBYL. Ukraine, 2011, 56 min, Director Andrii Mykhailyk.<br />
ATOMIC AFRICA. Germany, 80 min, Director Marcel Kolvenbach.<br />
ATOMIC AUSTRALIA. Italy, 2006, 6 min, Director and Producer Ricardo Russo.<br />
BEYOND THE CLOUD.France/Japan, 2013, 94 min, Director Keiko Courdy.<br />
BEYOND THE WAVE. Germany/Japan, 2013, 83 min, Director Kyoko Miyake.<br />
ETERNAL TEARS. Ukraine, 2011, 11 min, Director Kseniva Simonova.<br />
EVOLUTION OF BEASTLINESS. Russia, 2014, 4 min, Director Collective Work Chidren’s “Detective”.<br />
EXPLOSIONS BRING US CLOSER TOGETHER. USA, 2010, 2 min, Director Jonathan Johnson<br />
FALLOUT . Australia, 2013, 86 min, Director Lawrence Johnston<br />
FIGHT FOR THE ISLAND – PUNSU NO TAO. Taiwan/China, 2013, 65 min. Directors Kolas Yotaka, Chang, Jia-Wei<br />
FINAL PICTURE. Germany, 2013, 92 min, Director Michael von Hohenberg<br />
FLASHES OF HOPE: Hibakusha Traveling the World. Japan/Costa Rica, 2009, 61 min, Director Erika Bagnarello<br />
FOUR STORIES ABOUT WATER. USA, 2012, 37 min, Directors Deborah Begel and David Lindblom.<br />
FUKUSHAME. THE LOST JAPAN. Italy, 2013, 64 min, Director Alessandro Tesei<br />
GO SOUTH FOR ANIMAL INDEX. USA, 2013, 90 min, Director Chris King<br />
HIBAKUSHA. AT THE END OF THE WORLD.Japan, 2003, 116 min, Director Hitomi Kamanaka.<br />
HOGAR, HOGAR. Spain, 2013, 17 min, Director Carlos Alonso Ojea<br />
IN MY LIFETIME: The Nuclear World Project. USA, 2011, 109 min, Director Robert E. Frye<br />
INHERITANCE. UK, 2013, 10 min, Director Margaret Cox<br />
JOURNEY TO THE SAFEST PLACEE ON EARTH. Switzerland, 2013, 100 min, Director Edgar Hagen<br />
KERN. Germany, 2013, 9 min, Director s Szu Ni Wen and Yichen Huang<br />
LA FUGA B. Mexico, 2012, 2 min, Director Adrian Regnier Chavez<br />
LA FUGA H. Mexico, 8 min, Director Adrian Regnier Chavez<br />
MINING ON THE SWELL . USA, 2012, 18 min, Director and Producer Michael T. Searcy<br />
NUCLEAR WASTE IN MY BACKYARD.Germany, 2012, 29 min, Director Irja Martens<br />
NUCLEAR WINTER . Ireland, 2012, 5 min, Director Eimhin McNamara<br />
POISON DUST. Armas DU radioativo em Irak. USA, 2005, 56 min, Director Sue Harris <br />
RADIATION STORIES. India, 2010, 54 min, Director Amudhan R.P.<br />
RARE EARTH. USA, 2014, 54 min, Director Elizabeth Knafo<br />
REMOTE VIEWING. France, 2012, 5 min, Director and producer Cris Uberman<br />
ROCK FLATS: LEGACY. USA, 2011, 23 min, Director Producer Scott Bison<br />
SARDINIA’S DEADLY SECRET. Italy/Germany, 2012, 30 min, Director Birgit Hermes<br />
SONG N°14. France, 2011, 5 min, Director Céline TROUILLET.<br />
THE CLOUD HAS PASSED OVER US. Turkey, 2012, 15 min, Director Arif Karagulle.<br />
THE HORSES OF FUKUSHIMA. Japan, 2013, 64 min, Director Yojyu Matsubayashi<br />
THE NUCLEAR BOY SCOUT. UK, 2003, 24 min, Director Bindu Mathur.<br />
THE RACE FOR URANIUM. France, 2009, 52 min, Director Patrick Forestier<br />
THE UNIVERSITY OF NUCLEAR BOMBS. USA,2010, 55 min, Directors Mohamed Elsawi and Joshua King Ortis.<br />
THE MYTH OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE – IMAGE FILM by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation<br />
TO DIG OR NOT TO DIG/THE BATTLE FOR GREENLAND. Norway, 2013, 8 min, Director Espen Rasmussen.<br />
U - A STORY ABOUT URANIUM AND US. Canada, 2008, 9 min, Directors Shawn Arscott and Darlene Buckingham.<br />
URANIUM: THE NAVAJO NUCLEAR LEGACY. USA,1997, 13 min, Directors and Producer Doug Brugge<br />
WAKE UP. Australia, 12 min, Director Tony Barry<br />
WARM – GLOW. Switzerland, 2013, 50 min, Director Marina Belobrovaja<br />
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES ICBUW | ICBUW and IKV Pax Christi – Short Animation <br />
WYHL? NAI HAEMMER GSAIT! - Der Widerstand gegen das Atomkraftwerk am Kaiserstuhl, Germany, 2013, 44 min, Director Goggo Gensch<br />
YELLOW FEVER. The Uranium Legacy. USA, 56 min, Director Sophie Rousmaniere.<br />
ZEITBOMBE. USA, 2010, 27 min, Director Edward Saint Pe’.<br />
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</span>Poetry Scoreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15624640062686409332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947869416351479600.post-41200977906316716722014-03-28T04:59:00.002-07:002014-04-04T08:20:47.223-07:00"Go South for Animal Index" to screen at SWIC in Belleville<br />
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Poetry Scores' movie <em>Go South for Animal Index: a Fable of Los Alamos</em> will screen 7 p.m. Friday, April 4 in the Liberal Arts Theater, Room LAC 1350, at Southwestern Illinois Community College (SWIC), 2500 Carlyle, Belleville, Illinois.<br />
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This SWIC faculty screening is free and open to the public.<br />
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Dan Cross, <a href="http://www.swic.edu/Film/">professor of film</a> at SWIC, edited <em>Go South for Animal Index</em> and was one of its directors of photography and camera operators. He also directed many of the scenes he shot. He even makes an actor cameo as a uranium-mining Debased Cog, the movie's zombie-equivalents at the bottom of the atomic bomb effort.<br />
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"Dan joined our shoot as a zombie extra, but we soon realized we had the movie-making equivalent of atomic energy on our hands," says Chris King, director, a Granite City native. "He was shooting on every scene we could get him from that day on, and often left alone to direct the scenes he shot. Then, when we were done shooting, we just handed him all the footage, with some pretty spare editing instructions, and let him assemble the movie."<br />
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"The edit has taken nearly a year of work, but I was happy to do it because the of the quality of the material," Cross <a href="http://www.bnd.com/2013/07/10/2689950/local-talent-shines-at-st-louis.html">told the Belleville <em>News-Democrat</em></a> before the film's appearance in the 2013 St. Louis International Film Festival.<br />
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Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/2013/07/10/2689950/local-talent-shines-at-st-louis.html#storylink=cpy</div>
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Cross is sharing director credit with King on the next Poetry Scores movie, <em>Jack Ruby's America</em>, and will also direct photography on that movie and edit it.<br />
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Cross is an accomplished filmmaker in his own right, including the animated short <em>Dive</em>, which premiered at the St. Louis International Film Festival on the same bill as <em>A: Anonymous</em> by Daniel Bowers, widely recognized as the best independent feature film produced in St. Louis.<br />
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<em>Go South for Animal Index</em>, a 90-minute feature, will screen with a new short film by Stacy Singh, a SWIC colleague.<br />
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Following the screening, Cross and Singh will be joined by Chris King, director of <em>Go South for Animal Index</em>, to discuss their movies with the audience. <br />
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A Belleville people note: Chris King played in the band Enormous Richard, which was active in the early St. Louis alternative country scene with Belleville's own Uncle Tupelo. He also was close with Pops Farrar, father of the Farrar boys in Belleville, and produced a record for Pops, <em>Memory Music: Songs and Stories from the Merchant Marine</em>.<br />
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<strong>DIRECTIONS TO THE THEATER</strong><br />
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Southwestern Illinois College is easily accessible by Metrolink. Just take the train east to the College Station stop. When you get off the train, walk straight across campus to the northwest corner, closest to Lowe's and you should see a sign for the film screening. </div>
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<br />If driving from the west, you can take 1-64 to the Greenmount Road exit (#16). Turn right on Greenmount and you'll come to Highway 161 in four miles. The college is at that intersection. The best place to park is the lot by the Liberal Arts Theater (the one closest to Lowe's, next to 161). </div>
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<br />If you go in the doors closest to that parking lot, the Liberal Arts Theater will be right inside those doors. </div>
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<br />The screening will start promptly at 7, so try to arrive early. </div>
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For more information, email Dan Cross at <a href="mailto:dan.cross@swic.edu">dan.cross@swic.edu</a>.<br />
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<strong>MORE ON GO SOUTH</strong><br />
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<em>Go South for Animal Index</em> was produced by Poetry Scores, an all-volunteer international arts organization dedicated to translating poetry into other media, based in St. Louis, but with outposts in Hilo (Hawaii), Los Angeles, Nashville and Istanbul.<br />
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The movie was directed by Chris King and edited by Dan Cross, based on <a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-poem-by-stefene-russell-was-scored.html">a poem by Stefene Russell</a>. Poetry Scores previously scored Stefene's poem to post-punk rock, and this movie was written, shot and edited to that score. So <em>Go South</em> can be considered a 90-minute silent movie with a rock & roll soundtrack.<br />
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Shot on location in St. Louis and Cuba, Missouri, <em>Go South for Animal Index </em>follows four related storylines: the development of the nuclear bomb on a secret military base; the nuclear-waste-related illness of a tribal girl living nearby; the travels of the widow and daughter of a nuclear scientist who dies on the base; and the drafting into military service of a vendor of stuffed animals. The quartet of stories intersects dramatically in the context of the first successful test of the atomic bomb. <br />
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<a href="http://www.cinemastlouis.org/">Cinema St. Louis</a> writes: "Setting Stefene Russell’s poem to an exceptional rock-music score and eschewing spoken dialogue, <em>Go South for Animal Index</em> freely mixes zombies, experimental elements, and silent-film tropes in a bold genre mash-up. The large ensemble cast includes many well-known St. Louisans: poet Russell; former fire chief Sherman George; international burlesque stars Lola van Ella and Kyla Webb; African-dance impresario Mama Lisa Gage; architectural historian and preservationist Michael R. Allen; and the late George Malich in his final big screen performance."<br />
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<strong>REACTIONS TO GO SOUTH</strong><br />
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<em>Go South</em> premiered at the 2013 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Here were some reactions:<br />
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"<em>Go South for Animal Index</em> is a beautiful visual poem." - <strong>Chris Clark</strong>, artistic director, Cinema St. Louis<br />
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"Heck of a good movie." - <strong>Joe Edwards</strong>, manager of Chuck Berry and owner of Blueberry Hill<br />
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"<em>Go South for Animal Index</em> reminds us of Nietzsche's admonition: ‘Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.’” – <strong>Michael A. Wolff</strong>, dean and professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law; former chief justice, Missouri Supreme Court<br />
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“This poedocudrama kept us all reaching back to refresh our memories of local, national and world histories.” – <strong>Mama Lisa Gage</strong>, arts organizer, choreographer, dancer<br />
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"<em>Go South for Animal Index</em> is an instrument of a higher power.” – <strong>Ellen Sheire</strong>, Jungian analyst<br />
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<strong>OTHER MEDIA ON GO SOUTH</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R8uqCFxblI">A brief (6:33) documentary</a> on the making of <em>Go South for Animal Index</em>, produced by Thomas Crone and directed by Andy Alton<br />
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<a href="http://www.thetelegraph.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_c21a3568-e908-11e2-b600-0019bb30f31a.html">A feature story</a> on <em>Go South for Animal Index </em>from <em>The Alton Telegraph</em><em></em><br />
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<a href="http://poetryscores.blogspot.com/2010/04/go-south-for-animal-index-poetry-score.html">The original musical score</a> to <em>Go South for Animal Index</em>, produced by Matt Fuller and Chris King (the soundtrack to the movie has additional music by Tory Z Starbuck and Middle Sleep)<br />
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