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.
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