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Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781772016260
Pages: 159
Pub. Date: October 16 2024
Dimensions: 8" x 6.5" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / MUS000000

  • POETRY / Canadian
  • POETRY / Women Authors
  • POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
  • PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
  • MUSIC / General

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Chambersonic

By Oana Avasilichioaei

Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber. This collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings comes alive with documents, rehearsals, and reverberations, all populated by an ensemble of players, instruments, and materials that make sound together. A conductor fades in and out; the audience acts as choreographer; agencies, noises, and situations test their volumes and energies – until voices morph into rebellious notation, signalling the near-silenced, the dissonant, and the ignored.

"Chambersonic ... feels like walking through two kinds of interior spaces: one is a rehearsal or performance space where music is being composed and played, the other is the mind-space of the artist reflecting on their practice." – Janani Ambikapathy, The Poetry Foundation

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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