Archives for November, 2020
Antonioni’s “Red Desert” : Colors of Madness
My presentation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) was but an attempt to explore this mysterious movie. In this short-written account, I include the structure of my talk as...
Margaret Cavendish’s Vital Echoes
For my short presentation today, I want to add to our “Breathworks” a poem from Margaret Cavendish’s 1653 assemblage of Poems and Fancies, titled “Of Sound and Eccho” (1664...
“News Piece (ongoing),” Holly Pester
Holly Pester’s “News Piece (ongoing)” is a difficult poem to talk about, mostly because there is so little talking in it. Nevertheless, I also think that there is an...
Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud”
Lerer Long Presentation Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud” Today I will be discussing John Ruskin’s late work Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century. The text consists of...
The Rough Breathing in Ancient Greek
THE ROUGH BREATHING IN ANCIENT GREEK The breathing character is a diacritical mark belonging to the orthography of Ancient Greek. Such a mark is present in every word beginning...
A beautiful dance is made there: Slavery, stutter, archive.
Jerome Ellis’ multimedia video-poem life on life was streamed the 29th of September 2020 as part of CAAPP’s “Looking for Language in the Ruins” roundtable featuring poet Erica Hunt...
Demetrio Stratos: Cantare la Voce / Singing the Voice
Demetrio Stratos_ Cantare la Voce _ Singing the Voice In this small presentation, I would like to focus on experimental music and phonetics, particularly on one artist who contributed...
Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith
Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith Lovecraft’s colleague and protege, Clark Ashton Smith, presents a more complex case. In Smith’s poem “Desire of Vastness,” the poetic persona wishes to possess...
Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft
Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft In a 1957 essay on UFOs, Roland Barthes critiques the contemporaneous depiction of Martian civilization as “implicitly endowed with a historical determinism modeled on that...
MIASMA
The concept of miasma has, as an ideological construct, spread like a kind of miasma itself, playing a crucial and problematic role in the realms of moral psychology, medical...
Amplification in Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
I’m taking the opportunity of this short text to introduce a sculptural installation by Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore into the ongoing discourse of our class. Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to...
Revolting against the Regime of Fluency in Jordan Scott’s “Valsalvas”
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and campaign advisor, did a CNN interview in which she was asked to defend an instance from earlier in the...
VAGITUS
Vagitus, n. Etymology: Latin, < vāgīre to utter cries of distress, to wail. A cry or wail; spec. that of a new-born child. (OED) Vagitus–the cry or wail...
We are Sudamerican Rockers: Vocalizations in the Protest Song
You have just watched the first music video ever played by MTV en Español, aired in 1993. In my presentation, I will focus on the segment I shared from...
Destructuring/Restructuring: Tremoring Breath in Fitzmaurice Voicework
By: Michael Stablein, Jr. One of the leading teachers of the speaking voice, Catherine Fitzmaurice, is known best for her development of the Fitzmaurice Voicework: a vocal training discipline...
AAA-AAA: Breath as Object, Breath as Relation
By: Michael Stablein, Jr. Click here for video recording of my presentation In the title to Marina Abramović and Ulay’s 1978 work of performance, AAA-AAA, we are already presented...
“What is Happening?”: Language and Sound in Jaap Blonk’s “What the President Will Say and Do!!”
“What is Happening?”: Language and Sound in Jaap Blonk’s “What the President Will Say and Do!!” Cecily Chen At the beginning of his 2004 performance “What the President Will...
4-7-8 Breathing
4-7-8 breathing, akin to breathing practices like Alternate Nostril Breathing or other mindfulness exercises, is a pattern developed by Dr. Andrew Weil based in the yogic technique pranayama. 4-7-8...