AmbientPoetics.m4v

Noises and voices surround us in every moment of our lives. What do poets and other sound artists do when these ambient waves of sound speak to them? And how do they themselves speak these ambiences? How does the sound that is language describe or, rather, transcribe the background noise of life? How do different artists and thinkers rearrange their ways of making in relation to these floating atmospheres of experience? With speakers: Eugene Ostashevsky (Liberal Studies, NYU), Michael Birenbaum Quintero (Music, Bowdoin), Allen Weiss (Performance Studies and Cinema Studies, NYU), Jacques Lezra (Comparative Literature, NYU), and moderator Deborah Kapchan (Performance Studies, NYU). Nov 19, 2011