Cornell Set — four poems with computer music
poetry reading with computer music
c.8:00
December 2010 - April 2011
The 4-channel computer music requires Max/MSP or pure data for performance.
Joseph Klein, recitation
Stephen Morscheck, recitation
Elizabeth Pearse, recitation
Joseph Klein, recitation
David Jaffe, recitation
Heidi Dietrich Klein, recitation
Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation
score (pdf)
audio recording (Soundcloud); recording with text projections (YouTube)
recorded April 2011 (studio version); Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, Elizabeth Rogers.
video recording (YouTube)
recorded 18 March 2014, University of North Texas; Stephen Morscheck, recitation.
Webcast of 15 April 2011 program at Cornell University (performance begins at 26:58).
"Writers at Cornell" with J. Robert Lennon
Interview conducted 14 April 2011 during a residency with the Cornell University Creative Writing Program, including a discussion of Cornell Set.
photographs
Performance of Cornell Set and Three Poems from Felt at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY; 15 April 2011).
In the spring of 2010, I was contacted by poet and Cornell University English Professor, Alice Fulton — whose poems I had set to computer music several years earlier — about undertaking a similar project with the second-year MFA poetry students in Cornell’s Creative Writing Program. A dozen poems were submitted for consideration, from which four — each by a different poet — were selected for this collection. The poems were chosen for their contrasting content and style, allowing for a variety of approaches in the computer music setting as well. Specific references in the text provided the impetus for many of the processed sounds (e.g., cars and dogs in the Pityk poem, birds and rain in the Garcia poem); in some cases, the text reading itself provided the source material (this occurs to some degree in each setting, though the computer music in the Atsitty poem is based entirely on a reading of the text by the poet).
Cornell Set was commissioned by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Cornell University. The work was first performed by poets Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, and Elizabeth Rogers on 15 April 2011 at Cornell University. It is included on the album Improbable Encounters (innova 873, 2014).