Where does the tradition of oral poetry performance intersect with digital culture? One answer is in the audio podcast, where edited spoken word is combined with a sound-track and piped into the listerners’ white I-pod ear buds. My first podcast of this sort featured the work of Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna. Here are two podcasts produced after the readings of local poets Ed Carvahlo and Kyle Huffnagel in the Uncommon Words series.
In a session of the “Celebrating Literacies” gathering for high school students at IUP, we explored “Remixed, Mashed-Up Literary Podcasts. This session exposed students to the relationships between pop-cultural remixes and the creative processes involved in literature.
Here is our quick and rough attempt at a collaborative podcast with 20 readers, a mashup of poems by two poets, Robert Frost versus Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The tools and techniques of digital audio editing invite a new kind of collage sometimes called a mashup. In these two pieces, snippets or clips from a number of different pieces and speakers are combined into new works. The two remixes are entertaining and thought provoking in their juxtapositions. The voices are students and performers at a local reading in the Uncommon Words series in Indiana, PA.
In this 9 minute podcast, oral literature student Brian podcast discusses and shares audio clips of oral poetry.
A dramatic reading of H.G. Wells’ “The Red Room” with music
For Keith’s Final Project in Oral Literature, he explored the scope and definition of oral poetry in a spoken improvisation. It recalls both the performances of David Antin, whom we studied, and the way that education was once conducted — through listening and recitation.
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