Pironger

= English 871 = = MSA Presentation =
 * Salim Al Ibia **


 * Overview **


 *  Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging between literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; “verse without words.” By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance. **


 *  Features: **
 * These sound poems can be classifies as **

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 * Ø **interactive phonetic poems **
 * Ø **Minimal abstract poetry **
 * Ø **Games for sampled voice **
 * Performance Experience: **


 *  I don’t have anything sophisticated to say about Piringer's sound poems. I really think that sound poetry provides a reading challenge to most readers/listeners/performers because the methods of interpreting information vary widely. However, I am looking forward to hearing my colleagues's response to the [|following clip] in which Piringer plays/performs some of his sound poems. **


 * Analysis/Interpretation: **


 * While entitled poems, these sound poems fit more into the category of art. In many cases, by making the reader an essential element in writing the poem, no longer is the author’s intent clear and the end result often becomes lost. An example of this is Jorg Piringer’s “Sound Poems.” The entire concept of the poem lies with what the audience wants to hear and how they will chose to arrange the sounds offered to them. The reader is able to pick sounds and arrange them within a square. Then the program voices these sound in an incoherent jumble. The program is simply reading the sounds and not creating any sort of word regardless of how the viewer chooses to arrange the sounds. By creating a program such as this, the author really becomes an artist; Piringer in this case has created a work of art rather than anything that can be considered literature under the current definitions. The reader now becomes the poet. They are in complete control of the sounds and arrangements without having any tangible input from the creator of the program. In this sense, anyone can be a poet. **

**For Piringer's sound poems, please click [|here].** **For Piringer's home page, please click [|here].**