Sound Poems for Monday -- Jason Schneiderman-- (Ciccone-scapes I-IV)

Welcome back from the weekend!

In honor of John Giorno, I'm starting the week with my sound poetry experiments. His signature recording style was his work being read by a male voice, followed by the same poems being read by a high pitched female voice at about a two second delay.  I'd never really been interested in sound poetry until I heard his "Give it to Me Baby" on the album "10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces". And after reading it, I kind of wanted to do it.  I had a hard time opening these in the preview, but if you open the link in a new tab, they play just fine.

The rules I set up for myself were as follows:

1)    I could only use lyrics from Madonna songs

2)    I could only use my own voice (though I could filter it, layer it, repeat it)

3)    I could only use a single piece of my voice. 

4)  Each piece had to be very very short.

Ciccone-scape I

01 Madonnascape I_ Borderline

Ciccone-scape II

Madonnascape ii Like a Virgin

Ciccone-scape III

Cicconescape iii dress you up

Ciccone-scape IV

Madonnascape iv ray of light

So, tomorrow thoughts on death and the economy of attention. And two chances to see me in New York this week:

White Swallow hosted by Angelo Nikolopolous / Tues, Sept 14th, 6pm

Cornelia Street Café / 29 Cornelia St / with Ada Limon & Nick Flynn

&

Inspired Word hosted by Mike Geffner / Thursday, September 16, 7pm

Le Poisson Rouge / 158 Bleecker Street / with Luis Bernard & "A Night of Three GoD/Desses" (w/ open mic sign up)