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Essential American PoetsThylias Moss: Essential American PoetsRecordings of the poet Thylias Moss, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2007, in studio, WBEZ, Chicago.
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2011-02-0225 min
Limited Fork"Mother's Day" Graphic Prose PoamSlideshow of "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poam in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Features text extracted from conversations that took place between Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss, beginning in 1999 when he was eight-years-old,
and features images captured with a digital SLR camera, a digital point-and-shoot camera, a 50x USB microscope, a camera phone, and a Polaroid camera.
Images of Thylias Moss shot by Strexx, all others taken by Thylias Moss.
An audio file of the Artist's Statement is available from the Limited...2008-03-0700 minLimited ForkDetroit Intersections Project: Cogs in the Glass MachineSlideshow of the window installation at Work Gallery - Detroit featuring "Cogs in the Glass Machine," a Detroit Intersections Project on which Jim Cogswell, visual artist, and Thylias Moss, text artist, collaborated.
The text may be downloaded in pdf format in another episode of this podcast.2008-03-0700 minLimited ForkCogs In The Glass MachineText of the window project in collaboration with Jim Cogswell for an installation on the windows of the Work Gallery - Detroit.
A slideshow of the installation may be experienced in another episode of this podcast.2008-03-0700 min
Limited Fork MusicMillennium Peaches (remix of Strexx Environmental Reverse Experiment 109)Artist Statement for "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poem in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening on 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The music is a remix of "Environmental Experiment 109" by Strexx, and is available, with other environmental experiments, from strexx.com
A small slideshow of the panels may be experienced in the Limited Fork podcast.2008-03-0700 minLimited Fork MusicI Want To BeThe author, Thylias Moss, reads her picture book I WANT TO BE with music by the 2002-3 version of Ansted (when he was ten).
This audio file is For Janice H. and Talisa J., a mother and a teacher to whom this book has become important.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the book, thoughts that extend what the book accomplishes. I am glad to have you as collaborators in expansion.
This sound file is also for Janice's daughter and for all of the children in Talisa's learning space in Georgia.2008-03-0700 minLimited ForkHeat Dozens ELEMENTS OF DAMAGEVideo poam stanza of the longer video study "Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings," with sound by Strexx of http://www.strexx.com who wrangled the sound produced by an Empire toy stove and used it to form the basis of damage control audio for the soundtrack.
This poam explores a system trying to organize itself, seeking a point of unification for its population, a theme that will have some joyousness tethered to it, too, for emerging, for existing, and for functioning as connective tissue
so while there may be multiple forms of elements of damage, the system functions and as...2007-12-2200 minLimited Fork MusicMaudell's MoonSound poam treatment of "Maudell's Moon," a print poem by Thylias Moss, dedicated to Kevin Clark who provided the occasion for the recording of this version that differs from the print object necessarily for not occupying the same form of space, and for needing to adapt to the forms of occupancy possible in the different host landscapes (I'm thinking also of Zachary C. --thanks for being in this landscape, too).2007-11-1600 minLimited Fork MusicHeat Dozens: ELEMENTS OF DAMAGEPart of the project to distill the soundtrack of HEAT DOZENS (a video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast) into some of its composite sonic constituents. This unit of composite sonic constituency focuses on the "Elements of Damage" isolate. The designation of "damage" for this isolate may depend in part upon the cooperation of visual damage cues, and feedback loops between the sound and the visual to reinforce a "damage" contract (which may be broken or strengthened in a number of ways, by either partner or by other arriving parties). Even if this sonic isolate retains an association with...2007-11-1500 min
Limited Fork Video AnthologyFriezed Framed by Friezes video quiltDigital quilting of interior images (by Shaelyn Smith) and exterior still & moving footage (by Thylias Moss) of the demolition of an historic University of Michigan building in the further documentation of an exploration of the nature of what contains and the nature of what is container, a dual & simultaneous possibility, the status of container or contained determined by perception prevailing at the moment of perception (the eye of the beholder). The complex textures and structures revealed through the irregularity of details in the stages demolition as captured by Shaelyn become visual metaphors for intangible qualities of experience associated with interactions...2007-11-1500 minLimited ForkHeat Dozens with Lightning WingsA video poam exploring the mapping of neural networks in the mind through the linking of memory, a toy stove, the body's physiological responses to neurological temporary neurological damage, and imagination. Ideas about heat from one hub of this network, a hub which allows this hub to connect with other idea hubs in the mind. Anyone watching "Heat Dozens" has an opportunity to form a memory of the video poam and to form a network of associations formed by elements in the video poam linking with experiences already mapped in the mind and with environmental experiences occurring while watching the...2007-11-1500 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyABCs Walking WiselyMike, a student practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics, walks through principles of Limited Fork Poetics.2007-05-1000 minLimited Fork Video Anthology3,166A video poam exploration of the nature of containment where it intersects with notions of War. Alana is a student practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.2007-05-1000 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyMoral BaggageA video poam exploration of the nature of containment where it intersects with notions of War. Mavis is a student practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.2007-05-1000 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyShaelyn's Containment & the City (of Ann Arbor)Shaelyn Smith's video poam exploring (some of) the nature of what contains and (some of) the nature of what is contained through an investigation of the changing nature of the Frieze building during its time of demolition. Hear the soundtrack in the Limited Fork Music podcast. Shaelyn is a student practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicBubbling to Memphis audio print poamA sound poam version of the "Me and Bubble Went to Memphis" print poam that is part of the "Bubbling to Memphis" print, sound, and tactile poam group. Other group members are in this podcast and in the Limited Fork podcast. For Primus.2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicBubbling to Memphis complete soundtrackComplete soundtrack poam of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam (in the Limited Fork podcast). Features "Neptunian Studio" composed and performed by Ansted Moss. The a capella version of the soundtrack is in this podcast. Look for "Neptunian Studio" on Ansted's "WinslowSpeak" album coming soon to a music download location.
For Primus.2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicBubbling to Memphis a cappella soundtrackSoundtrack of the "Bubbling" video poam (in the Limited Fork podcast) with all of the vocals and none of Ansted's music. The complete "Bubbling" soundtrack is available in this podcast.2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicLFMK soundsoundtrack of the LFMK video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Because she enters into her humanitarian mission joyfully, the music is spirited, the colors of the...2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicShaelyn's Structure of Frieze ContainmentSoundtrack poam of Shaelyn Smith's video poam exploring (some of) the nature of what contains & (some of) the nature of what is contained through an investigation of the changing nature of the Frieze building during its time of demolition. See Shaelyn's video in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.2007-05-0800 minLimited ForkBubbling to Memphis (low res)EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs in this low resolution version of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam for those with storage issues. The compression will be strained on those large LCD and plasma monitors, but on a portable device, it should look fine.
A video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces that may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations. This video...2007-05-0800 minLimited ForkBubbling to Memphis (high res)EGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs. A limited fork video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces which may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations.
This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) that lent itself to making one. Look for the "Bubbling to Memphis"...2007-05-0800 minLimited ForkLFMKLFMK is a video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Because she enters into her humanitarian mission joyfully, the music is spirited, the colors of the embedded...2007-05-0800 minLimited Fork MusicIn Your Face soundtrackSoundtrack poam of the "In Your Face" video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast.
Contains sound effects from various sound banks.2007-03-0200 minLimited ForkIn Your FaceA video poam that explores what is just out of reach, at the 50x scale where there is enough resemblance to soothe and enough enhancement to unsettle.
What is seen of the eye, by the way, at the 50x scale is the (magnified) iris and the (magnified) pupil. The white part of the eye is not visibile except for a fraction of it for a second.
Made in attempts to distract myself from the recent loss of 600GB of data when a 1TB external hard drive failed at the moment that I was trying to move what I arrogantly deemed...2007-03-0200 minLimited ForkMonday Aardvark of Laundry DETONATED (updated)Short form of the longer update, both of which feature more images by Ansted Moss. This video poam explores how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location.
The update became necessary when external hard drive failure caused the loss of some of the source files. This piece is the outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention.
Thank you, Evie, for asking for a poam when I was doing laundry. Thank you, Ansted for all the dirty socks and for images of me draped with laundry.
The print poam...2007-03-0100 minLimited ForkMonday Aardvark of Laundry (updated)This updated version of the full-length video poam is about how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location.
Featuring more images by Ansted Moss, the update became necessary to make when an external hard drive failure destroyed some of the source files. The update is an outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention.
The sound poam portion comes from a print piece prepared for MiPO (mipoesias.com), guest edited by Evie Shockley. Thanks, Evie, for the occasion that led to these makings and remakings.2007-03-0100 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyThis Little PiggyA video poam that explores Limited Fork Poetics by a student practitioner in fulfillment of course requirements at the University of Michigan.2007-03-0100 minLimited Fork MusicAccidental CultureSound poam iteration of "Accidental Culture," a print poam in TOKYO BUTTER that was also featured in Poetry Daily. This sound poam is for Don and Diane. Thanks for your interest in the print form.2007-02-2200 minLimited Fork MusicMonday Aardvark DETONATED soundtrackDetonated (short) sound poam soundtrack from the "Monday Aardvark DETONATED" video poam in the Limited Fork podcast where the full "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" video poam is also located. Thanks again, Evie of MiPO where the print "Ardvark" poam is.2007-02-1600 minLimited ForkMonday Aardvark DETONATEDShort video poam form of "Monday Aardvark of Laundry." Features images by Ansted Moss and faces of Martha, Mattie, and Donna --thanks for the likenesses. Thanks also to Evie of MiPO who got this bifurcating Aardvark bifurcation started.2007-02-1600 minLimited ForkMonday Aardvark of LaundryA video poam exploration of some of the visual potential of some of the content of the sound & text poams of the same name. This video poam is also for Evie of MiPO who asked me to submit some work. Thanks for getting this tine of the fork in motion. This video poam is not likely to be the final bifurcation. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains images by Ansted Moss (see more of his visual work at abstract-projections.com) and Thylias Moss. The "Monday Aardvark" sound poam is available in the Limited Fork Music podcast. Thanks Mattie, Martha, and Donna...2007-02-1600 minLimited ForkVerde: the greening of electronsVideo poam treatment of "Verde," a prose piece available at poetrymagazine.org. The video includes Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca from the poem "Somnambule Ballad," and a still image by Ansted Moss whose image work may be seen at abstract-projections.com. The soundtrack is available in Limited Fork Music.2007-02-1500 minLimited Fork Music"Verde" (The Greening of Electrons) for Valentine's DayA sound poam version of the Valentine's Day prose piece "Verde" made for POETRY. The prose piece may be read at poetrymagazine.org. This sound poam is for John. Thanks, Danielle, for asking me to write it. A video poam version is coming soon. Thanks also goes to "Somnambule Ballad," a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, the source of the Spanish in both the sound poam and the prose piece in POETRY.2007-02-1400 minLimited Fork MusicMonday Aardvark of LaundrySound poam version of the print poam appearing in MiPO and dedicated to Evie at MiPO. This sound poam is also for Jim Cogswell as it comes out of my thinking about an alphabet of socks, and is for Winter 2007 student forkers who are working on their own poams exploring containment and war. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains a quote from herbsnhoney.com2007-02-1400 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyBrain FoodA video poam exploration of Limited Fork Poetics by a practitioner of LFP in fulfillment of course requirements at the University of Michigan.2007-02-0400 minLimited Fork MusicPleasurable ComplexityMain soundtrack poam composed in collaboration with the "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam that concludes with the sound poam "Glassy Implications of the Lattice" composed for the mirroring sequence, and available in this podcast.
"Pleasurable Complexity" is a video poam that debuted at the collaborative poetry event and concurrent Duderstadt Center Gallery show that featured photography by John Chervinsky in September 2006 at the University of Michigan. The "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam is available in the Limited Fork podcast where other materials, including pdfs, related to lattices (including lattices in TOKYO BUTTER, a collection of print poams by Thylias Moss) are available.2007-02-0300 minLimited Fork MusicGlassy Implications of the LatticeSound poam composed in collaboration with the mirroring sequence in the "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam that debuted at the collaborative poetry event and concurrent Duderstadt Center Gallery show that featured photography by John Chervinsky in September 2006 at the University of Michigan.
The "Pleasurable Complexity" video poam is available in the Limited Fork podcast where other materials, including pdfs, related to lattices (including lattices in TOKYO BUTTER, a collection of print poams by Thylias Moss) are available.2007-02-0300 minLimited Fork MusicPi Complex (short) soundtrackSoundtrack Poam of "Pi Complex," a video poam short available in the Limited Fork podcast. This soundtrack poam is related to "Pi Song" and to video and audio versions of "Tornado Pi" available in Limited Fork and Limited Fork Music.2007-02-0300 minLimited ForkPi Complex (short)Video poam short of the installation projection piece in three parts, each about 9.42 minutes long. Related to "Pi Song" and to the video poam "Tornado Pi," and features close-ups of two of the human vortices. Explores merging, diverging, and fluctuating identities. Dreams of golden ratios. Also related to the video poam "Place Value."
I am grateful for the generous participation of two University of Michigan practitioners of Limited Fork Poetics: Rachel Harkai and Nate Barron who has two video poams in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.2007-02-0300 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyThe Myth of CamilleA video poam by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics at the University of Michigan2007-02-0300 minLimited ForkRush HourA video poam of "Rush Hour," from my first collection of poetry, and a companion piece to the sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space. Intersects with and departs from "Rush Hour (too)," a video poam available in this podcast. The soundtrack of this video poam is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.2007-01-3100 minLimited Fork MusicRush Hour video poam soundtrackSoundtrack poam of "Rush Hour," a video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast.2007-01-3100 minLimited ForkRush Hour (too)Video poam companion to "Rush Hour" sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.2007-01-2500 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyTalking HammersA video poam by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.2006-12-0700 minLimited ForkLimited Fork Quality Control (CREW 2.0)A spoken poam for practitioners, dabbler or immersed, the curious and for the attendees --also for those who could not attend-- my CREW (Collaboratory for Reseach in Electronic Work) Seminar last week in the School of Information (north campus), a session during which an attendee in the remote West Hall (central campus)location asked me about the challenge of judging the quality of Limited Fork poams if there are no boundaries to what may achieve the status of poam. This audio poam comes from further consideration of the question and my response at the time. This is extended collaboration with...2006-12-0700 minLimited ForkWhy Fork? (Cheryl's Q, My A)An answer poam for Cheryl's question about why a fork is the instrument of this poetics of interacting language systems, why a fork is the tool of choice for making. An answer poam for Cheryl that is also for the participants of the CREW seminar (for whom this answer poam is also a ladder).2006-12-0100 minLimited Fork MusicRush HourThis sound poam is for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.2006-12-0100 minLimited Fork MusicBirdletters (soundtrack)Soundtrack of the video poam "Birdletters" (available from the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast) by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics.2006-11-1600 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyBirdlettersA video poam by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics. The soundtrack is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.2006-11-1400 minLimited ForkForks & Ladders (an introductory audio map of LFP structure)This sonic poam is for Profjr!, and for any others curious about the basics of what happens when formal poetic structures are forked. Just a little bare-bones map of fork possibilities to consider when laboring through an act of making and hoping for multiples, but not necessarily identicals or even twins at all. If something's born on/in/over/under/through/with/navigating/zigzagging/climbing/opening/folding/unfolding [& so forth] the ladder, and you'd like to share it with me (and possibly other Limited Fork podcast subscribers), please send it to thyliasm@umich.edu. Thanks.2006-11-0900 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyInterpretations/InteroperationsThis video poam by a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics offers a visual meditation that links the perceptual distortion of dyslexia and the perceptual distortion experienced as love.2006-11-0300 minLimited ForkOstrich Culture of Snowmen video poamThis video poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems, and is part of the Limited Fork Simultaneity Studies Series. This video poam forms different structures (including structures of meaning) when it interacts with static and focused platforms (also achievable by pause functions) such as document forms such as the pdf visual poam, available in this podcast, of still images from the video. The interactions are not limited to the sound...2006-11-0200 minLimited Fork MusicOstrich Culture of Snowmen sound/poam/trackThis sound/poam/track, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems, and is part of the Limited Fork Simultaneity Studies Series. This sound poam forms different structures (including structures of meanings) when it interacts with the video poam "Ostrich Culture of Snowmen" which is available in the Limited Fork podcast. The interactions are not limited to the sound poam and the video poam. Also in the Limited Fork podcast is a...2006-11-0200 minLimited ForkOstrich Culture of Snowmen picture bookA book of still poams, images from "Ostrich Culture of Snowmen" from the Limited Fork Poetics simultaneity studies video series. Companion poams are available in this podcast and in the Limited Fork Music podcast. This visual poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems. The print object poam "The Culture of Snowmen" is part of TOKYO BUTTER, my new collection of poetry from Persea. Please send any requests for LFP information...2006-11-0200 minLimited Fork MusicWords Are SurfacesSoundtrack of video poam also by Chris Bathgate, a practitioner of Limited Fork Poetics. Chris's video poam is available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.2006-10-2600 minLimited ForkTornado PiA video poam for Mikel Alvarez whose request for the sound poam "Tornados" led to the creation of this video poam. I hope you like it, Mikel. "Tornado Pi" contains an image of the mother of Limited Fork Poetics taken by Ansted Moss. "Tornado Pi" also contains footage of the "Pi Song" ENG 429 players: Nate Barron, Rachel Harkai, Jennifer Obidike, Julia Ris, and Jennifer Sharkey. Nate and Jennifer Sharkey's video poams are available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. The soundtrack of "Tornado Pi" is available in the Limited Fork Music podcast. "Pi Song" is available in the Limited...2006-10-2400 minLimited Fork MusicTornado Pi soundtrackSoundtrack of "Tornado Pi," a video poam available in the Limited Fork podcast for Mikel Alvarez whose request for the sound poam "Tornados" led to the creation of the video poam. Thank you for asking for the sound poam, Mikel. The sound poams "Tornados" and "Pi Song" are available in the Limited Fork Music podcast. Send any requests for sound or video poams to thyliasm@umich.edu2006-10-1900 minLimited Fork MusicTornadosAt the request of Rebecca Donahue and Mikel Alvarez for insights about the poem "Tornados," this sound poam version appears in this podcast. The print form of "Tornados" is available in RAINBOW REMNANTS IN ROCK BOTTOM GHETTO SKY by Thylias Moss and in a number of anthologies. Please send requests for audio versions of her work to thyliasm@umich.edu2006-10-1300 minLimited Fork MusicDOD (complete soundtrack)The complete soundtrack of the 2005 video poam "DOD-the death of depth" that introduces principles of Limited Fork Poetics. The video poam is available from the Limited Fork podcast. An instrumental version is also available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.2006-10-1200 minLimited Fork MusicThe Rapture of Dry Ice Burning Off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's ApotheosisAt the request of Mikel Alvarez, this sound poam version of a poem from SMALL CONGREGATIONS by Thylias Moss appears in this podcast. Send any requests for sound poam versions of her work to thyliasm@umich.edu2006-10-1100 minLimited Fork MusicFractureSoundtrack of the video poam "Fracture" by Sara Mazzolini (with music by Florian Kriechbaum) available at the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. The video and sonic versions of the poam are in English and French, often without distinct boundaries.2006-10-0800 minLimited Fork[the look of] (Incredible) ACCESSThis video poam reconfigures, in a context of access, images taken by the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio on the occasion of their visit to the north campus of the University of Michigan. The MADD Poets are Making a Direct Difference in their community with positive actions. Their Director is David Bush.2006-10-0600 minLimited Fork[the sound of] (Incredible) ACCESSAudio extraction from the (Incredible) ACCESS video poam; a sound poam of only the words spoken about access, inspired by the occasion on which the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio came to the north campus of the University of Michigan. David Bush is Director of the MADD Poets Society.2006-10-0600 minLimited Fork MusicBlessed Are the MeekThe song playing --the line "inherit the earth" upon impact-- in the 2004 accident referred to in "Accidental Culture," a poam in TOKYO BUTTER © 2006 by Thylias Moss. The song, written as a gift for my mother, derives its lyrics from the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew.2006-10-0600 minLimited Fork MusicYour Heaven (for Deirdre)Song written during the time of preparations for Deirdre's funeral, recorded on CD and distributed to family after the services; the Deirdre of this tribute is also the Deirdre of TOKYO BUTTER, a collection of poams © 2006 by Thylias Moss.2006-10-0500 minLimited Fork MusicTines Three video soundVideo soundtrack poam by three teams of MADD Poets from their April 2006 single-day access to Limited Fork Poetics on the north campus of the University of Michigan. See the video medley poam in the Limited Fork podcast and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. The MADD Poets Society is a group of teens from Toledo, Ohio who are Making A Direct Difference through positive actions. David Bush is the Director of the MADD Poets Society.2006-10-0400 minLimited Fork MusicScaffolds::MergerA Limited Fork sound poam2006-10-0400 minLimited ForkTines ThreeA medley of three video poams made by three teams of members of the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio during their single day of access to Limited Fork Poetics and the north campus of the University of Michigan in April 2006. The MADD Poets Society is a group of teens Making A Direct Difference through positive actions in their community. David Bush is the director of the MADD Poets Society.2006-10-0400 minLimited ForkPleasurable ComplexityThis movie poam debuted at the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event on 14 September at the University of Michigan. The theme is "place value: implications of the lattice." 37 layers (communities) of interacting language systems (communities) are latticed in the making of this poam. Poams related to this theme, including a "Pleasurable Complexity event book," may be found throughout all three Limited Fork podcasts: Limited Fork, Limited Fork Music, and Limited Fork Video Anthology. This poam contains images © 2005 by John Chervinsky and are used by permission. This poam also contains content from the "Pleasurable Complexity event book" also available in this p...2006-09-2600 minLimited Fork MusicDirigible SweetbackSoundtrack of the video poam "Place Value" available from the Limited Fork and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcasts. Contains a looped half minute of the voice of NPR recorded in the background of a conversation in October 2005 along a Michigan highway.2006-09-2500 minLimited Fork"Lattice Looking" bookThis visual poam is a companion to the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that considered notions of place value and implications of the lattice. Some of Ansted's lattice looking images were part of a larger lattice or woven piece featuring the poam "Shadowbox Suite" by KC Trommer. This larger piece, "Latticed Shadowbox Suite," is available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast and in the Limited Fork podcast. Other pieces related to the "Pleasurable Complexity" are also available in the Limited Fork podcast. Implications and interactions extend beyond the separate poams; such is the nature of resonance available for...2006-09-2500 minLimited Fork"Lattice Looking" slideshowA video poam exploring implications of the lattice in conjunction with the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork event on 14 September. A variation of the image sequence is also woven (interacting) into "Latticed Shadowbox Suite" which also features work by KC Trommer, a Limited Fork practitioner, and cellist Pablo Casals performing a suite for cello by Bach. Related poams are available in this and other Limited Fork podcasts. These poams are part of a lattice of inquiry considering notions of place value.2006-09-2500 minLimited Fork MusicJust Left of KilterSoundtrack from "Lattice Looking," the slideshow poam that is a companion to the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event. Parts of the slideshow poam are also part of "Latticed Shadowbox Suite" by KC Trommer and Ansted Moss. These pieces are available in the Limited Fork and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcasts.2006-09-2500 minLimited ForkPlace ValueA video poam (product of an act of making) exploring scale and the simultaneity of experience in interacting language systems which form and reform poetic structures as a consequence of the ways in which their existences fold and unfold. "Place Value" is also about the location of poetry and the need for people to be (more) receptive to the incredible readiness for poetry exhibited by all that exists. The poam considers how value both is and isn't assigned to instances of this incredible readiness. The soundtrack is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork Video AnthologyLatticed Shadowbox SuiteThis video poam is an unintended collaboration that in the lack of intention becomes a lattice itself, a community of interactions from multiple locations intersecting on a number of levels (or lattices). The compatibility of KC's video, and the spoken language with Ansted's images seems designed rather than incidental, yet it wasn't until I had these separate components for the Gallery exhibit component of "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that I realized the benefit of seeing the separate pieces together, allowing them to speak a shared language in addition to the multiple levels of saying in their separate languages...2006-09-2400 minLimited ForkLatticed Shadowbox SuiteThis video poam is an unintended collaboration that in the lack of intention becomes a lattice itself, a community of interactions from multiple locations intersecting on a number of levels (or lattices). The compatibility of KC's video, and the spoken language with Ansted's images seems designed rather than incidental, yet it wasn't until I had these separate components for the Gallery exhibit component of "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that I realized the benefit of seeing the separate pieces together, allowing them to speak a shared language in addition to the multiple levels of saying in their separate languages...2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork MusicProject Genealogy (spoken)Spoken text from the video poam "Project Genealogy: why I wrote SLAVE MOTH" available in the Limited Fork and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcasts.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork MusicProject GenealogySoundtrack from the video poam "Project Genealogy: why I wrote SLAVE MOTH," available at the Limited Fork and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcasts.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork MusicProject Genealogy (instrumental)The composer of the soundtrack for the video poam "Project Genealogy" plays the instrumental version. The video poam is available at the Limited Fork and the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcasts.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork MusicSylviaSoundtrack from the video poam "Sylvia" available at the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork Musicel metro (soundtrack)An audio poam that is the soundtrack of the video poam "el metro" available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. At times, the sound itself is as kaleidoscopic as the accompanying visuals in the video piece made by the same team (Sharkey and Kerr) of practitioners of Limited Fork Poetics.2006-09-2400 minLimited Fork MusicSweet Enough Ocean, Cotton (from SLAVE MOTH)Poem from SLAVE MOTH a narrative-in-verse by Thylias Moss. Explores the interaction of music and text, another aspect of self that Varl, the adolescent enslaved female narrator of SLAVE MOTH, would not have wanted to suppress, and didn't --though maybe only she heard herself singing.2006-09-2300 minLimited ForkOn the Curve (of solving for B)Text of poam (product of an act if making) part of a University of Michigan
Engineering 477 VRML (virtual reality modeling language) Project, Fall 2003,
related to themes, images, & attempts to locate what remains
dealt with in Tokyo Butter © 2006 by Thylias Moss.
This poem, though a part of the book, is outside the book.
Go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/class/eng477/projectsf03/POEM/Report/Report.html to see details of the Virtual reality Modeling Language project.2006-09-2300 minLimited ForkProject Genealogy (why I wrote Slave Moth)This movie poam explores what led me to write the narrative in verse SLAVE MOTH when my son, the composer of the soundtrack for this short movie poam, was in sixth grade at a grade-six-through-twelve school. During a meeting, some parents wanted to ban a required ninth-grade ancestry assignment that was embarrassing, humiliating, and demeaning for disclosing that their sons could trace their ancestry no further than slavery. Right away, I realized the need for other models of slavery so that the shame being experienced could be attached to a broader, and I felt, likely more accurate context, one more...2006-09-2300 minLimited ForkCosmic Bullets by Thylias Mosspoetry as sound art (a poam) --companion to the 15-minute online poetry writing friendly competition at quickmuse.com (see the 27 June archived agon for the real time play back of the writing of the poem and to read the finished static piece)2006-09-2100 minLimited ForkDOD - the death of depthDOD is a theory piece of Limited Fork Poetics, an experimental film that celebrates how text, sound, and both moving and static images can form sensory communities of varying densities while explaining some of what necessitates such explorations. The sensory paths are not duplicates; the sonic is not trying to say what the visual image is saying or the visual text, but they are all commenting on shared existence, so there are moments of convergence, and moments that contemplate, even if they do not complete, exchange. The death of depth in part suggests that a notion of distance may not...2006-09-2100 minLimited Fork MusicDOD (instrumental)From the soundtrack of "DOD - the death of depth," a Limited Fork video poam (product of an act of making) available at the Limited Fork podcast. Explores the beauty of merger and forking movements in text choreography. "DOD," the video poam, is a theory piece of Limited Fork Poetics, a theory that this music suits very well.2006-09-2100 minLimited Fork MusicExploding AngelsThe lyrics are from a prize-winning poam written by Ansted Moss; based on a real event. An Iraqi boy the same age as Ansted lost his arms during a bombing of his home.2006-09-2000 minLimited Fork"Glory" from LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER2002 performance of "Glory" in which the poet speaks and sings the words, allowing the music composed and performed by Ansted Moss to reshape them for their occupancy of the sonic page instead of the 2D page.2006-09-2000 minLimited ForkThe Song of Iota songSoundtrack from the first Limited Fork video piece "The Song of Iota," October 2004. The text of this piece, adapted from the video piece where the text was composed, also exists as a print object in Gargoyle 50.2006-09-2000 minLimited ForkThe Song of IotaThe first LFP poam. Limited Fork Poetics was born in October 2004 when I watched the closing credits of a movie at the Quality 16 Cinema. It was a moment of convergence in which separate strands of knowing intertwined. I became fluent in the language of activity, the language of shifting structures, the language of impermanence. I became aware of more ways to respond to experience, and though the palette is heavier, I appreciate the enhanced options. There are infinite communities, and interactions within interactions. I was struck by the infinite multiple connections between things on every scale, the cosmic and the...2006-09-2000 minLimited Fork MusicThe Limited Fork (poetry is a dynamic system)Theme song of Limited Fork Music, all about the forky approach to responding to experience. For more about the forky approach to experience, visit the Limited Fork podcast. This is a song of the starting place of forky understanding in 2004.2006-09-1900 minLimited Fork MusicThe Song of Iotaa song about ants, as in insects and cosmic iota; see the animated text form of this sound art at the Limited Fork podcast; "The Song of Iota" exists as a print object in Gargoyle.2006-09-1700 minLimited Fork MusicPi Songa song that celebrates the first 100 decimal places of Pi in the rhythmic stylings of an unaccompanied voice2006-09-1700 minLimited ForkA Generalized Mapping of Limited Fork Poetics as of May 2006An essay that defines Limited Fork Poetics, the study of interacting language systems, as of May 2006.2006-09-1500 minLimited ForkPi Song (to 100 places)sound art; a poam that continues a consideration of the theme of place value. also a companion (not a close relative) of the video art piece "Pi Complex," not yet part of the podcast.2006-09-1400 minLimited ForkPleasurable Complexity event bookA book of interactions between two visual language systems, images and words, to accompany the 14 September (and as of 15 September, to document the) presentation of "WORKS OF PLEASURABLE COMPLEXITY, a LIMITED FORK POETICS EVENT" by Thylias Moss of the University of Michigan and John Chervinsky of Harvard University. All images © John Chervinsky, 2005. See more at http://www.chervinsky.org2006-09-1000 minLimited ForkThe Culture of Funnel Cake songsoundtrack from the experimental poetry short "the culture of funnel cake" from the early days of Limited Fork Poetics2006-09-0900 minLimited ForkThe Culture of Funnel CakeExperimental poetry short from the early days (late 2004) of Limited Fork Poetics with images and soundtrack by Ansted Moss, animated text and vocalizations by Thylias Moss interacting in a hybrid literary form (a poam)2006-09-0800 min