Please read the prosody description on the home page
These are a few of the earliest, most basic poet-practices you can try out; they're as integral to our lineage as sharpening a pencil or reading a book.
"THEREFORE THEY ARE CALLED POETS": ascesis/aesthesis and the Prosodic Body
BREATH RETENTION AND THE UNSTRUCK SOUND + 5 years longevity
UNBEGUN & PURIFICATION OF THE 5 ELEMENTS MANTRA a rainbow bath
A VARNAMALA MANTRA recitation of the alphabet
full essay on the ordering of the alphabet
NAÌ„DAÌ„NTA listening to the end of sound, using C & G tuning forks
The following are various modes (more so modes than 'genres,' perhaps 'further prosodies') generated over the years while working with the Prosodic Body and the Commons Choir. I felt that sharing these modes might stir possibilities. I'll include a file of examples (and we could use some of the pieces as scripts to perform together.
reEnglish undiscovery sonic amulet
in'lak-ech (trans subjective inter change) am I not another you?
phonotactic unshackle
is'isn't such words as such
fair trade philology biochemical sound sequences
political economy pleas phoneme cosmogony implicate prosody reparative narrative (the cruxes)
lost optativity
totally cataphatic nonarbitrary sound meaning word thing correlation (or ontomemes) word emptiness (not nonsense)
phenomenal phonophany grammatical yoga
hypoxic hearing soma-somatic poison orison
poetic deprestidigitation
sector repurpose
A Joint Prosodic Origin of Language and Music by Steven Brown
This is a scored phonemic emanation we could all perform together when we meet:
(the same as the phonemes saying themselves)
(4/4 time / 2 spaces = quarter note, more or less)
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