OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics
”The domain of the aural opens, at once, on to the act of composition and on to the iterative context of a composition’s reception; it comprises embodiment(s) imbricated with an array of inscriptive practices. The works of these pages instantiate (as compositions) and contemplate (as critical texts) the differing degrees in which techniques of the body enter into dynamic relation with modes of inscription, forming a feedback loop that co-constitutes their capacities. To this degree, an aural poetics – in opposition to the vast discourse of its homonym – can evade the facile separation of an essentialized “oral” and “written,” veer away from the technological determinism and psychosocial developmental model that commentators have grafted upon this faux binary, and compel us to imagine and examine composition across artistic practices through assessing specific articulations of materials and occasion. Here, listening is manifold.” (Michael Nardone)
With contributions by: Alexandre St-Onge, Amber Rose Johnson, Ame Henderson + Evan Webber, Anne Bourne, Brent Cox + Courtlin Byrd, Carolyn Chen + Divya Victor, Cecilia Vicuña, Constance DeJong, Dalie Giroux, Damon Krukowski, Danny Snelson, Diane Glancy, Dylan Robinson, Eyvind Kang, François Lemieux, Gail Scott, Heather Davis, Ida Marie Hede + Steven Zultanski, Henri Meschonnic, Janel Morin + Peter Morin, Jerome Ellis, John Melillo, Laura Ortman, Lauren Turner, Lewis Freedman, Lisa Robertson, Luke Nickel, Marcus Boon, Marshall Trammel, Max Ritts, Merlin Sheldrake, Michael Nardone, Mitchell Akiyama, Nicholas Komodore, Niiqo Pam Dick, Oana Avasilichioaei, Patrick Nickleson, Raven Chacon, Raymond Boisjoly, Sophie Seita, Stacy Doris, Steven Feld + Xenia Benivolski, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Tiziana La Melia + Ellis Sam, Tom Miller, Valéria Bonafé + Lílian Campesato
OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics
368 pages, 2023
Ed. Michael Nardone
Innehåll
To Begin the Cycle Again — 8
Raven Chacon: Thirteen Scores
Duet (2000) — 11
Echo Contest (2005) — 12
Compass (2021) — 13
Ella Llora (2002) — 16
Music for Voice (2003) — 18
Mirror Quintet (2004) — 19
Whistle Quartet (2001) — 20
Drum Grid (2010) — 21
…lahgo ádíl’í diné doo yééhósinílgíí yidáaghi (2004) — 24
American Ledger 2 (2019) — 25
Whisper Trio (2008) — 28
Dispatch (2020), with Candice Hopkins — 30
Music for 13 Paths (2021) — 34
Contrary Motions
Raven Chacon in dialogue with Michael Nardone — 35
Relentless Echoes Surface — 48
Eyvind Kang: Yielding Tones — 51
Jerome Ellis: Milta — 52
Preface, or, Prevoice, or Melismatic Palimpsest — 61
Amber Rose:Johnson Enacting Entanglements: A Score for 3 — 67
John Melillo: Waves and A Wave — 70
Heather Davis: Unrelenting — 75
Tanya Lukin Linklater: She senses. — 78
Diane Glancy: Cursive — 79
Janel Morin + Peter Morin: Found/Memory poems, 1 to 5 — 81
The Nemescu Transmissions — 84
Niiqo Pam Dick: You Scale Alone — 88
Oana Avasilichioaei: Porous Seuil — 111
Resonant Ecologies — 270
Dylan Robinson: selélets’ li te sen̓ áḵw sen̰aqʷ sən̓ aʔqʷ — 273
Max Ritts: Inaudible: Labor and Science in Ocean Noise Politics — 274
Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life — 278
Messengers
Steven Feld in dialogue with Xenia Benivolski — 280
Luke Nickel: White Fang Field Recording — 283
Tom Miller: Talking with Birds — 284
Marcus Boon: Vibration In Itself:
Sound, Humanism, and the Anthropocene — 286
Anne Bourne: from sound field restoration archive — 294
Cecilia Vicuña (translated by Daniel Borzutsky), from Deer Book — 296
Now listening will be the luminous duration of your tissues — 312
Lisa Robertson: Preface — 315
Disquiet — 316
In Phonographic Deep Song: Sounding Niedecker — 324
Interval, Diasem: Politics of Styles in Peter Culley’s Parkway — 329
Émile Benveniste on Baudelaire — 334
Henri Meschonnic (translated by Lisa Robertson + Avra Spector): A Rhythm Party Manifesto — 343
Stacy Doris + Lisa Robertson: The Perfume Recordist — 349
Aural Poetics — 358
Michael Nardone: An Editorial Afterword — 361
Contributors — 364
Acknowledgments — 367
Colophon — 368