Chambersonic
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Canadian, General, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772016260
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Oana Avasilichioaei's previous translations include Universal Bureau of Copyrights by Bertrand Laverdure, Wigrum by Quebecois writer Daniel Canty (2013), The Islands by Quebecoise poet Louise Cotnoir (2011) and Occupational Sickness by Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (2006). In 2013, she edited a feature on Quebec French writing in translation for Aufgabe (New York). she has also played in the bounds of translation and creation in a poetic collaboration with Erín Moure, Expeditions of a Chimæra, (2009). Her most recent poetry collection is We, Beasts (2012; winner of the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry), and her audio work can be found on Pennsound. She lives in Montreal. Learn more about Avasilichioaei at www.oanalab.com.
Ingrid Pam Dick (aka Gregoire Pam Dick, Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al.) is the author of Metaphysical Licks (BookThug 2014) and Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, Aufgabe, EOAGH, Fence, Matrix, Open Letter, Poetry Is Dead, and elsewhere, and has been featured in Postmodern Culture; it is included in the anthologies The Sonnets (ed. S. Cohen and P. Legault, Telephone, 2012) and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, (ed. TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson, Nightboat, 2013). Her philosophical work has appeared in a collection published by the International Wittgenstein Symposium. Also an artist and translator, Dick lives in New York City, where she is currently doing work that makes out and off with Büchner, Wedekind, Walser, and Michaux.
