Audio/Video Poem Update

I decided not to put up examples of audio/video poems on the blog because I think that will influence what you produce. Just push aside the fear of doing it "wrong" and create something original. Although I will say that Jordanne's question about the Afrikaner poet quoted in Weschler's piece might be helpful. He says (on pg. 30) that "[y]ou could hear the listening." I would add to that the section of Weschler's essay in which he talks about "War Music," the retelling of the "Iliad" by Christopher Logue. Weschler is fascinated by the way Logue (following Homer's lead) juxtaposes the sounds of mortal combat with the sounds of men chopping wood on the far side of a valley, and how the sound of their conversation can be heard momentarily across that great distance. This metaphoric conflation of two sounds in two very different atmospheres (war and the peaceful, meditative work of chopping wood) is, as Logue says, "spine-tingling" because of its synaesthetic quality. More on synaesthesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Think about how it may be possible to create similarly surprising connections by juxtaposing sounds and images from different atmospheres.