The star of today's Wednesday Wonder is the theremin, an early 20th Century invention that is played by moving the hands back and forth in the surrounding air. Pamelia Kurstin shows us how the instrument sounds.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/wednesday-wonder-music-by-theremin.html

At the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard's Lamont Library, machine-answering-length poems recorded on cassettes by such poets as Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, and James Tate have been placed in an interactive exhibit "Phone-a-Poem". In addition, 15 digitally recorded poems by contemporary poets, including Dan Beachy-Quick, Charles Bernstein, Forrest Gander, and Anne Waldman, have been made available. For more about the exhibit, which also features correspondence…

Today's post takes a look at the audio-visual mosaics of artist Daniel Canogar. The artworks comprise discarded DVDs onto the reflective surface of which Canogar projects movies and animations. I've included a video showing his creations.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/thursday-inspiration-audio-visual.html

As the temperatures get cooler, you may be tempted to stay indoors and browse the Web. If so, use today's edition of Saturday Sharing to catch up on historical events at Google's Cultural Institute, look up records at the National Personnel Records Center, read about the 1918 American influenza epidemic, learn new ways to describe the moon, take stock of limited editions at The Folio Society, and find out how artificial intelligence combines with humans' "brassy voices" to produce a…

SOUND (Solid #3) hits the shelves in just a few weeks!

For everyone who's eager for a taste to what's to come, the previewers are sharing their thoughts on…

Today's post is the first in an occasional series in which I share interesting perspectives on writing and craft or memorable quotes from poets. The inaugural edition includes quotes from T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Bly, Natasha Trethewey, Natalie Diaz, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/10/monday-muse-poets-on-writing.html

I've posted a video of a stunning light and sound show marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and the celebration of the opening of the Titanic Belfast Centre:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/10/wednesday-wonder-projection-mapping.html

I'm featuring the short film 'The Sound Machine', an adaptation of Roald Dahl's short story of the same name. Wordless, the film is an absorbing and thought-provoking essay about an obsession with science and sound and where invention can lead us.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/roald-dahls-sound-machine-film.html

Regular readers of Saturday Sharing expect the eclectic and the unusual. There's a bit of both in today's edition, which offers "endangered sounds", a dip or two into alchemy, and "walking drawings".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/saturday-sharing-my-finds-are-yours.html

I would say that there are things on average about Baltimore that remind me somewhat of Seattle.  Not that I think about it all the time but after leafing through some of my dentists travel magazines, I started to wonder.  I had to make a list the other day of all the things that I liked about Baltimore because I'm gonna be here for two my years finishing up my masters.

Sometimes I stare at tall buildings smelling somewhere near a space needles and or a seaport bringing in…

I would say that there are things on average about Baltimore that remind me somewhat of Seattle.  Not that I think about it all the time but after leafing through some of my dentists travel magazines, I started to wonder.  I had to make a list the other day of all the things that I liked about Baltimore because I'm gonna be here for two my years finishing up my masters.

Sometimes I stare at tall buildings smelling somewhere near a space needles and or a seaport bringing in…

month of: april

april.5: i went to an open mic called Artichoke Haircut and i

…chickened out of reading at it after i had eggs (plastic Easter ones) thrown at me before i got up to read; i took it as a bad oman

april.12:  i saw the hunger games and i

….wanted to move to alaska so i could have the excuse of wearing a visor and changing the…

Today's Wednesday Wonder is artist, musician, and performer Neil Harbisson. Harbisson also is a self-described "sonochromatic cyborg", that is, he "hears" colors. Included in my profile of Harbisson is a video in which Harbisson explains how he uses the colors he hears, and an example of one of his musical compositions.…

Today's post profiles award-winning artist Alison Clifford, who is deeply involved in creating interactive new media projects in which literature, including poetry, combines wih sound to highly imaginative, often engrossing visual effect. One of her projects uses an E.E. Cummings poem and another an Addie Tsai poem. Try them out yourself!…

Today's post features a video about artist Steve Roden's large-scale sculpture/sound/film installation titled "bowrain":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-rodens-bowrain.html

Today's new edition of All Art Friday puts the spotlight on VoxPhotographs blog; an interview with Charles Matson Lume, who explores the possibilities of light, reflection, and projection; LA sculptor Mineko Grimmer's sound installations; and Phyllida Barlow's exhibit "Rig". The round-up covers exhibitions of work by Carolee Schneeman, Andy Warhol, Ann Bromberg, and pioneering women artists of New Mexico.…

Today's new edition of Saturday Sharing offers links to literary Web journals and magazines, fascinating projects at MIT's Media Lab, harmonic overtone singing, and fingerpainting with sound.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/09/saturday-sharing-my-finds-are-yours_10.html

Today's Monday Muse features Julian Treasure, who speaks to ways to re-tune ourselves for conscious listening.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2011/08/monday-muse-on-listening.html