Augusto de Campos/ Cid Campos/ Walter Silveira

New directions for old habits

The creative and technical resources of electronics used in poetry recitals benefit.

The well known restlessness of concrete poet Augusto de Campos has already identified him as a creative explorer on the limits of poetry and the spoken word.

Together with video artist Walter Silveira, author of the celebrated "VT Preparado AC/JC", and his audacious and creative, techno-musical nephew, Cid Campos, it has become possible to realize an old project that unites poetry, music, computers and ele ctronic recourses.

"Poesia é Risco" is inspired on the necessity to salvage the habit, common in the 50's, of poets reciting their own poems.

Defined by the authors as a "verbicovisual event", in reality it is a performance already edited on CD, in which the authors themselves execute a unique recital interacting with electronic music, song and videographic images.

In their own words it is a "poetry-music interpenetration"or "oralization"- an audio projection of "nearly-singing" or "spokesung" texts. The objective is to explore the dramatic potentiality of the spoken word and promote a restructuring of poetry t hrough the combination of reading, superimposing and fragmenting words and assembling citations with the aid of computer resources, synthesizers, samplers and multichannel recordings. Or as the authors clarify, "to create with the use of new technologies and by way of functional and innovative interpretations an intimate relation between poetry/music/video, establishing new dimensions for the recital of poetry - its oralization.