Life is Amazing…
I love the xylophone. Actually, I love any tuned instrument that creates sound by hitting it with something, whether that something be mallets, sticks, brushes, fingers, hands, whatever. In a word, percussion. In western music we hear the xylophone, or variations of it, played in symphonies and jazz. It's also commonly heard in African... Continue Reading →
When I was living in Spain, I sang in a lot of jam sessions. When I first started going to the jams, I improvised my poems and lyrics to punk music. There was one jam session where the organiser often sang this song to introduce me, whether it was because he identified me as Canadian... Continue Reading →
Dave Bonta, from Tyrone Pennsylvania publishes an excellent blog/website featuring what he considers to be the best video poems from around the web. Moving Poems aims to publish "...one every weekday, most weeks." "What's a video poem?"you may well ask. In 1988 I made an art video, as it was called in those days; a video... Continue Reading →
Alison Amazed 