[Orwn Acra]

Lyrics never inspire me, but I often ask myself, how can this sound or idea be replicated in poetry? How can I recontextualize lines to create sound art in the way this imagines record scratching as parrot talk or John Waters dialogue as song lyrics? What might the poetic equivalent of lowercase music read like? Could this album's concept be used to create anything worthwhile? (Raymond Queneau's One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems is one answer.) What if a multi-part poem was sequenced in a way similar to how David Bowie ordered the tracks on "Heroes"? How might I use repetition as meaningfully as Brian Eno or Steve Reich at their best? What if Stockhausen wrote a limerick? What would a noise-haiku sound like?

[Julie Steiner]

Walter, meet mashup artist Cassetteboy.

[Douglas G. Brown]

W S Gilbert penned many a memorable phrase, of which my favorite is;

Things are seldom what they seem;
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

I married a woman like that once; worked for companies with management like that more then once.

[John Isbell]

And The Mikado's "My Object All Sublime" perfectly explains Dante's Inferno...

Cheers,
John