So, here is my sound project– a mix of 66 voices reading different sections from Inger Christensen’s poem IT (1969). The poem/project breaks down as follows:
Section I: a 66 line stanza read by 66 voices
Section II: two 33 line stanzas read by 33 voices each
Section III: three 22 line stanzas read by 22 voices each
Section IV: six 11 line stanzas read by 11 voices each
Section V: eleven 6 lines stanzas read by 6 voices each
Section VI: twenty-two 3 line stanzas read by 3 voices each
Section VII: thirty-three couplets read by 2 voices each
Section VIII: sixty-six single lines read by a single voice each
I would love to use Pinko’s as a space for further discussion (about the text, about the interaction between voices, about the context for the idea, about the arranging process (which was designed to leave things largely up to chance)…etc.). Enjoy!