Inaugural Poem Remix: One year later
January 23, 2010
Has it really been a year since WFMU’s Ken Goldsmith put out a call for remixes of Elizabeth Alexander’s much derided poem? I didn’t think it that bad. My household did vote Obama so we were too happy all around to notice a poet, good or bad (but mostly bad). But Ken asked, and here’s what I did. (Though my favorite is probably this by People Like Us.)
Each word of the title and first line was cut and looped and brought in and out of the mix. Tres Steve Reich, which I thought was keeping with the mid century modernism of the entertainment that day. Though the title here is completely inaccurate ( I believe I was at deadline). It should be, “Every Word of The First Sentence.”
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