Jenni Meredith (lyrics and some vocals)
Ralph and the Robot choir: (Junior, Kathy, Fred, The Princess, et al)
Influences
Many poets and lyricists including; Bob Dylan John Lenon
Many performance poets including; Bob Cobbin Lemn Sisssay John Agard Merle Collins Aaron Williams
Sounds Like
The Wordsart website at http://www.wordsart.co.uk is my on-line exhibition space where you can find videos, audio files, interactive webart like the Transmutations piece commissioned by NDAF and graphics. The videos don't stream at www.wordsart.co.uk, so I have started to upload them along with all the screening info at my video page in MySpace film, (myspace/snowtrax). And you can find some other videos and pics at my wider network MySpace page here, (myspace/jennimeredith). This is where I share some poetry, including poster poems.
I am a member of writers cafe
Ralph and the Robots started performing with Jenni as long ago as OS 8.6.
Their latest oeuvres are with Tiger and, whereas before they talked a lot about themselves and their digital lives and loves, now they are starting to branch out into textscapes with a political edge: Agitpoetry to compliment Jenni's Agitpot ceramics.
Plans are developing to explore new colours and textures using ambient samples, adding a few different voices to the lineup and for more duet work.
Wordsart got their first break in 1998 with InSite, a Suffolk County Council CD ROM commission.
Jenni's CD ROM titled 'A Rising Rain' and released in 2001 with the rest of the InSite CD ROM set is a digital maze. It leads the player deep into graphic poems some of which can be recognsied as the source of Ralph and the Robot Choir's later audio experiments.
It was a commissioned work but no one is sure what the CD was called or if it ever actually materialised!
But Ralph and co were undeterred by such set-backs and set off for Berlin in November 2001 to display their choral talents at the GAGA Digital Arts Festival in a grungey undergrond cinema in the former Eastern Sector.
2002 saw Ralph and the Robot choir reaching out to reality; combining with a real choir on a SCOPE Millennium Award project.
Specially written works about Harwich's seafaring past were written but the project had little lasting influence on our digital friends who soon realised they prefer the relaxation of hanging out on the web rather than the tensions of mixing in venues like the Electric Palace Cinema.
SoundSense and Essex County Council funded the choir in 2003 to develop a set they called Commanding Voices about the History of the New and about life and the universe through digital eyes.
And now I am helping them to find a space here on MySpace so they can share their stuff.
I will update this regularly to be sure of keeping you all informed about any new voices we attract to the choir, any new gigs we get to perform at and of course all of our new compositions.
I love this animation. Hope you enjoy too? Description: Watch what happens when the creation gets out of control. Contact the artist at alananimator@gmail.com! Artist : http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/ Link : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34244097/
Here's my one minute green film for the Friends Of the Earth green film contest.
You can vote for your favourite at the FOE Youtube site from September.
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem (cum song) 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
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Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
Hey! How's it going? It's getting hot outside and it's time for indie films.
This month I'm promoting this Indie Film - "Gentleman's Choice - The Chris Adams Story" - a hard hitting documentary on the tragic death of a sports entertainer.
Watch it online ($5) or buy the DVD at http://gentleman.eyesoda.comGentleman's Choice: The Chris Adams Story Trailer
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
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A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
Hi Jenni, how are you?
I finally got a mic and was wondering if you could now send me those links we discussed so i may practice some spoken word. Do you still go on cafe?
Hope all is well. Take care.
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I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
This made my brain spin I had to keep listening to regain normality it's a delightful feeling thanks for the request delighted to add you apologies for absent puncuation its gone for a week to Margate with its grammar
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