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Word Musicians
A word said over and over becomes a series of sounds without meaning, with no discernable beginning or end. Radio Lab this week showcases word musicians who delight in the intricacies of language and the point at which meaning moves from verbal to sonic.
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If you swear by American Heritage Definitions, you just might get away with
calling this a poem. Even though Traci Morris uses JUST THREE WORDS, repeated
over and over like a litany, this is very much "A verbal experience designed
to convey ideas and emotions in a vivid and imaginative way."
Writer/Performer: Traci Morris
Originally as part of the Whitney Biennial 2002
First aired on The Next Big Thing
Links:
www.tnbt.org
IF
A young patient Andrew Salter, responds to "what if" questions,
reinventing his experience of being in hospital through metaphor and allusion.
With musicians Ion Pearce (voice and cello) and Hannah Peters.
Producers: Sherre DeLys and John Jacobs
Originally Aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program "The
Listening Room"
Winner of the Third Coast International Audio Festival Silver Award
Links:
Listening
Room
Third
Coast International Audio Festival
Blue Candy
Before a memory is spoken, it exists as a series of fragments - images, voices
and moments. Poet/performance artist/musician Carl Hancock Rux translates into
poetry the process of piecing it together.
Performed for the Next Big Thing.
Links:
www.carlhancockrux.com
www.tnbt.org
Gregory Whitehead
Audio adventurer and playwright Gregory Whitehead stops in to the Lab to
talk and perform several of his audio cartoons (that's what he calls them):
includes "Evil Axis" (fun with a loaded phrase) "The Meaning
of M.A.R.T.H.A" (Stewart, that is) "Eva Can I Stab Bats In A Cave?"
(palindromic bliss) and "Bugs Bardo Radio" (a riddle).
Yma Dream
A story for people with difficult (but musical) names. "Yma Dream"
chronicles a bizarre evening of tongue twisters and tolling bells.
Written by Thomas Meehan, originally published in the New Yorker Magazine
in 1962.
Read by Christine Baranski.
Reading taken from WNYC's Selected Shorts, recorded live at Symphony Space.
Thomas Meehan has written the books for the Broadway shows "Annie,"
"The Producers" and "Hairspray."
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