NARRATIVE: ONE HUNDRED MILLION MILLION MOBILE POEMS
Posted April 14, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I’ve been so busy that I had completely forgotten to mention my finished narrative project! Anyway it takes Raymond Queneau’s One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets, translated by Bev Rowe, and allows you to experience these poems through a mobile device using GPS in Plymouth.
Its quite a simple piece allowing you to make your own path through Plymouth, passing through hot-spots along the way triggering a line of a poem, similar to how you would do in the book. These lines are assigned to positions around Plymouth, of which you can walk through and read the line.
To download and have a go yourself go here: One Hundred Million Million Mobile Poems
Tags: Narrative
Comments (0)NARRATIVE: IDEA
Posted February 26, 2008 at 11:58 pm
After today’s meeting I’m fixed on my idea now. My starting point is the book of Hundred Thousand Billion Poems by Raymond Queneau, a set of 10 sonnets. Each line of the sonnet is cut which allows you to select which line you want from each of the other 9 poems. This was originally written in French and has since been translated into English by many different people. I’ve found a few on the internet:
- http://www.bevrowe.info/Poems/QueneauRandom_v4.html
- http://www.uncontrol.com/deploy/content/EXPERIMENTS/massin/
Using this as a source for the poems I will create a GPS version of the book. I’ll create this using mediascape and map out the hot-spots around Plymouth. On screen you will be able to see a map and possible narrative routes, these taking you through hot-spots that will trigger off different lines of each poem.
I hope to record these using binaural microphones so it feels like someone is in front of you speaking a line. I’m in the process of building my own set at the moment so I should hopefully have some photos of the setup and maybe a few recordings soon.
