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- Hans Anderson
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- "CURIUM: E.E. CUMMINGS FRIED IN A HARD DRIVE"
- Summary: A POET GETS DIGITIZED
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Review of CURIUM: E.E. CUMMINGS FRIED IN A HARD DRIVE
Hans Anderson
Posted on February 27, 2007 at 07:00 AM
This piece is a fairly straightforward report -- it's the subject of the piece that is unusual and experiemental. A producer has friends and family -- aged 3 to 80 -- read EE Cummings poetry and he puts non-melodic music to it. The reporter says most people react to this the way I did; a roll of the eyes, a quick dismissal. But I really liked what this sounded like. The effect of the combination of the overall production -- amateur poetry readers, solidly written poetry, experimental electronic music makes for a fresh sound.
For a PD, this piece fits in April's National Poetry month. It's an interesting piece any day of the year, though.