Check out new work from EMU’s own Christine Hume:
http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-lullaby.html
_Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense_ is an essay-poem (by Christine Hume) with a soundtrack (by James Marks). The text uses the lullaby to investigate rhythm as an innate instinct and drive. Rhythm creates us: a local manifestation of the physical infinitude. Lullaby shows us the power of rhythm, which renders all words duplicitous and allegorical. The CD that accompanies the text, a collage of found sounds interlaced with a more traditionally composed acoustic guitar instrumentation, is meant to give the reader a more engrossed and nuanced sense of the “event” of the text and of the lullaby itself as an all-encompassing, complex sensory experience. With the CD, “silent reading” expands, and the text extends viscerally, music haunts it. Reading and hearing demonstrate a tuning fork relationship, pace our capacity to “see things” at night based on sounds we hear and to hear things suggested to us by what we read.