Mid-Air Conversations

A motile and spatial algorithmic speech piece, performed by Greg White and Roger Dean. The text by Hazel Smith which forms the basis of Mid-Air Conversations consists of seventeen short fragments. All the fragments are stylistically and thematically different from each of the others, and explore a variety of locations or historical situations, but there are some overlapping concerns. The piece points to a range of political conflicts but also to another space, one without a specific geographical or historical identity, where such problems might be overcome. To this end the piece includes its own language, constructed out of the words that compose the piece, raising the question: is this the language of that other space and if so how can we begin to adopt and understand it?
Excerpt from PennSound, Center For Programs In Contemporary Writing

Smith, Hazel

Dean, Roger

White, Greg

The AustraLYSIS Electroband

2006

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