Today, we were honored by a visit from Christian Bök. He gave a thrilling performance of three sound poems: "Seahorses and Flying Fish," part of a sound poetry sonata, and"Synth Loops". The children were electrified—we all were! Afterward, he taught us all how to begin beatboxing. After some enthusiastic applause and thanks, our class returned to our room and had a short discussion about the nature of Dada art. Ask your children what they thought!
With Christian's gracious permission, I took a short recording of his performance, with the intent of posting it here. Unfortunately, I can't get it to load—but you can easily check out his work (sound poems, univocalic poems, and his xenotext project) on YouTube. I recommend it!
And what a treat to experience the kids' spontaneous, participatory enthusiasm--the visceral joy in the room was palpable.
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