iLib Shakespeare (a perturbed sonnet project)

"Scot Gresham-Lancaster is a composer, performer, instrument builder and educator. Tim Perkis has been working in live electronic and computer sound for many years, performing, exhibiting installation works, and recording in North America, Europe and Japan. 

iLib Shakespeare is a social media mashup that uses the dynamic input of users to continuously rewrite a sonnet of William Shakespeare. The user phonetically rhymes a word or short phrase, which is added to the database of variations available to other users. For instance unhappily forsworn can be rhymed as snappily untorn. Each time the page is loaded, a different selection of user-defined substitutions is used. A transposed midi version of Lachrimae or Seven Tears, by John Dowland (1563-1626), can be heard as well, with 'perturbations' that increase as the sonnet text is modified." -- from Turbulence

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Turbulence

Published in 2014 by Turbulence.

This copy was given to the Electronic Literature Lab by Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington in Spring of 2016.

PUBLICATION TYPE

Showcase

COPY MEDIA FORMAT

Web

ORIGINAL URL

https://turbulence.org/project/ilib-shakespeare/