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The Blues & Muse of M. …

Aug 4, 2007 1:43 AM

Love what are you a doing. I think we maybe flying on the same plane.


Forever Trespass” is a digital poem exploring the question, "Does the poem own the poet or the poet own poem?" The sound art for this piece was constructed from the 2D (2 directional) poem, "Forever Trespass". The "normal" voice is me reading the poem vertically (down the columns) and the "harmonized" voice is me reading the same poem horizontally (across the rows). The video was made by animating my photographs and digital art and integrating it with the original sound art.  I am hoping you would like it.  Let me know what you think.   ~md
J. Otis Powell!

Jul 17, 2007 1:34 AM

I'm very interested in your work. Maybe this wiil be a good connection. Welcome.

The audience, in the distance and in the dim light of the smoky bar, responded as if they knew, as if they felt what we felt, as if the power that pushed its way through us was their calling as well. They were lost in the orgasm of the music that occupied the space around them. Spirits flew like cartoon ghosts just beneath the ceiling, laughing, singing and bellowing names of forgotten souls released from bondage, recalling anonymous legends who only played free jazz and who only let loose when they genuinely had something provocative to say.

The first phrase out of my mouth was Spirits in the house! And then again, Spirits in the house! The music swirled around me like water in a vortex: piano, drums, bass, flutes and saxophone made space for me and I walked on top of it like a Jesus lizard walks on water. We made meaning by filling the space with our sincerity. I stood there in the middle of the vortex pushing poetry into a microphone, unconscious, but present, lost inside the music but finding myself. I wasn't a singer but music formed my words and the sounds I’d rehearsed alone found their way into the air. I wasn't a singer but I held voices of singers in her heart; artists like Gloria Bleakly who was on stage next to me, Ijeoma Thomas, Abbey Lincoln, Billie Holiday, June Tyson and Leena Conquest. I was letting loose whatever ghosts flooded that moment.
from Bottomless Sky - a novel
by J. Otis Powell!
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