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Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781772016260
Pages: 208
Pub. Date: September 17 2024
Dimensions: 8" x 6" x 0.5"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE023000

  • POETRY / Canadian
  • POETRY / Women Authors
  • POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General

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Chambersonic

By Oana Avasilichioaei

Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber, its pages populated with an ensemble of players who breathe together, enacting translations between instruments and materials. The space comes alive with rehearsals, scores, and a reverberation of adjoining environments – aural, social, physical, visual, political. A conductor fades in and out as agencies, noises, and situations test their volumes and energies – all until voices morph into rebellious notation, signalling the near-silenced, the dissonant, and the ignored.

A collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings, Chambersonic thematically and formally reflects on the practice of soundmaking, combining poetic and experimental music techniques in ways that will appeal to readers and listeners alike.

By Oana Avasilichioaei

Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves poetry, translation, photography, sound, and performance to explore an expanded idea of language (whether textual, visual, aural, etc.) as reverberatory and evolutionary, polylingual and polyphonic poetics, historical structures, borders and movement. Her six poetry collections include We, Beasts (Wolsak & Wynn, 2012, A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015).

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