Time, the Magician single work   poetry  
First known date: 2005 Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Time, the Magician
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Time, the Magician (2005) is a collaboration by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean written in the real-time algorithmic image-processing program Jitter. The piece begins with a poem, written by Hazel, on the subject of time: influential on the writing of the poem was Elizabeth Grosz's The Nick of Time. The poem is initially performed solo, but as it progresses is juxtaposed with live and improvised sound which includes real-time and pre-recorded sampling and processing of the voice. The performance of the poem is followed (slightly overlapping) by screened text in which the poem is dissected and reassembled. This screened text is combined in Jitter with video of natural vegetation, and the sound and voice samples continue during the visual display. The text-images are processed in real time so that their timing, order, juxtaposition, design and colours are different each time the work is performed.'

Source: How2 3.2 ([2007])

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon How2 vol. 3 no. 2 2007 Z1527572 2007 periodical issue 2007
    Note:

    'This Quicktime Movie is ... only one version of the piece. The sound is from a performance given by austraLYSIS at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, October 2005. The performers were Roger Dean, computer sound and image; Sandy Evans, saxophone; Hazel Smith, speaker; Greg White, computer sound and sound projection.'

    Source: How2 3.2 ([2007])

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Erotics of Geography: Poetry, Performance Texts, New Media Works Hazel Smith , Hawaii : Tinfish Press , 2008 Z1527584 2008 selected work poetry prose

    'Hazel Smith, author of the creative writing text, The Writing Experiment, shows us how it's done in this spirited book of performance poems, collages, elegies, meditations, explorations of gossip, uncertain identities, bodies and the city, to say nothing of "acts of omission." An accompanying cd-rom includes new media and performance works by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean. ' (Publication summary)

    Hawaii : Tinfish Press , 2008
    Note: Appears on the accompanying CD-Rom.
Last amended 27 Jun 2013 09:58:19
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X