Jordan Scott

Originally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Jordan Scott now wanders between the Pacific and the Shield. Jordan's first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the fall of 2006, Jordan worked on the final sections of blert while acting as a writer in residence at the International Writers' and Translators' Centre in Rhodes, Greece. Jordan spends the spring and summer slinging canoes at Pitt Lake, the largest freshwater tidal lake in North America.

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Aural Transl(oc)ations

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Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 7:00pm

Array Studios, Liberty Village

Array Studios, 60 Atlantic Avenue

Cost: PWYC, $5 for students and artists, $10 for others suggested

Featured Performers
Paul Swoger-Ruston
Bill Kennedy
Jordan Scott
Souvankham Thammavongsa

How does one translate a poet's unique style of reading into music? What can an instrument reveal about language and voice? Pauses, whispers, errors, clips, yells, stutters, exhales and inhales find their way off the reading stage, and into a derivative musical composition. As a result of collaboration with poets Bill Kennedy (Apostrophe, ECW Press 2006), Jordan Scott (Blert, Coach House 2008) and Souvankham Thammavongsa (Found, Pedlar 2007), composer Paul Swoger-Ruston has created three musical works that elaborate, re-imagine and recontextualize each author's distinctive text and voice.

Submitted by aaron on July 2, 2008 - 5:21pm.