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Audio annotation for Shane Koyczan: introspective word virtuoso—not so much in your face as make you think. Love this line from "Stop Signs": "I wanna kiss you like a traffic jam." And love "Beethoven." (Recorded--my head-cold-voice and ums and ahs included--using the Memos app on my iPhone 4 as I drove home after dropping the four year old at preschool. m4a file translated to mp3 using iTunes. Uploaded and shared via Dropbox.)

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Audio annotation for Tracie Morris: hip-hop-sound-academic-performance poet extraordinaire. Not only does Morris' performance register and style defamiliarize language and textual experience, as I mention here, but she can also defamiliarize bodily experience, too (as here). (Recorded--my head-cold-voice and ums and ahs included--using the Memos app on my iPhone 4 as I drove to pick up the five year old from kindergarten. m4a file translated to mp3 using iTunes. Uploaded and shared via Dropbox.)

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Notes on textsound: an online audio publication, Issue 8 (2010), edited by Whit Pow. 1. Chen: long. Lots of cello work, some singing (chanting?) 2. Toscano: loop of the artist's vocals and beat-boxing 3. Touchon: computer-generated voice over patriotic music (horns, drums) (a march) 4. Thurman: synthesized sound effects, drums, etc. 5. Sanders: snippets of voice recordings, interspersed with generous helpings of silence 6. Martin: barbershop-esque chant  7. Caracano: dissonant piano music plays in the background. Foreground: a speaker repeats/remixes a similar sentence, w/lots of "f***ing" involved 8. Kostelanetz & Chadabe: speakers' voices are digitized, remixed (at beginning) with various sound effects. Also, speakers say words, which are then performed with sounds 9. Flood: synthesizer music--very new agey  10. Kostelanetz [embedded above]: speaker arguing with himself: "No, I'm Richard Kostelanetz"--his voice modulated, remixed, lengthened, repeated, digitized, etc. 11. Toscano: track #2 redux, with more beat-boxing 12. Martin: layers of speaker's voice, saying the same thing in rounds--takes on a rap-like cadence near the end. Overall: I'm not gonna lie: this is all a bit strange. But I enjoyed a lot of it, especially the way many of these artists use different vocal tracks of themselves performing. These tracks create an interesting polyvocality that suggests, in part, the varieties of personal and cultural identity--the self brushing up against other performances of that self. Brings into question received notions of authenticity and performativity.