Posts Tagged ‘Voice-over’
A Poem Beats Its Chest
November 5, 2010Moliere
May 20, 2010Oh, the Spring! (Mole’s Song)
May 4, 2010My Eyes Are Swimming Like Fish
May 4, 2010The Ocean
May 4, 2010My Desire For Oranges
March 24, 2010Prose tends to flow freely like a brook, bunching up a bit before a rock, churning a bit in a whirlpool, or slowly circling in a backwater. But the meaning is usually clear.
A poem, on the other hand, can be more like a plank of knotty pine. It may run straightforward and freely for a while in a clear grain – and then bunch suddenly in a knot of quite complex thought or be lost suddenly, and for a while, in a vacant hole of revelation. For this reason, I’ve sometimes used the first or second take of a recording, rather than a more practiced later version. Like a buzzsaw, in the initial take you can feel the mind labor as the voice gears down to cut through a hardened knot of particularly opaque meaning, or fly freely as the minds sawblade spins wildly through a vacant hole of illumination. I enjoy hearing this dialogue between the poem and reader.
Photo by Carl Nelson / Poem by Carl Nelson / Voice by John Ruoff