Brave New Music
20, 21, 22 March | The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
A leading Yorkshire/ Canadian language/ action/ sound poet since the early 70's.
He'll be performing his groundbreaking typewriter concrete poem Carnival11. It's a beautiful, dizzying mandala of text, symbols, fonts and rubber stamps. And it's a kind of book as reading machine12.
In trying to sound the symbols (%%%..), runs of continuous letters (NZNNNZ..) and snatches of found text, Carnival, and Steve's performance emphasise the visual qualities of language. It's a kind of wander through a labyrinth of text as sound, full of exclamations, pops, clicks and absurd humour13.
11Check it out here: http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/carnival/2a_assembled.html
12The original book was to have its pages torn form it, and reassembled by the reader: you assembled the text and then used it as a machine to create your own meaning from the poem.
13He'll also be doing a reading with Karen Mac Cormack on Thursday 19 – check the Extras section for more.
Steve McCaffery - Carnival, Panel 2 (excerpt) [5:36]
Steve McCaffery - The Kommunist Manifesto or Wot We Wukkers Want [5:54]
£10 day pass / £25 festival pass
£20 early bird festival pass
(book before 20 February)
Buy tickets: www.thearches.co.uk
+44(0)141 565 1000
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