notes

This is an exploration of the participatory poetry of E Maria Shelton Speller, whom I met at a VR meetup. The piece is titled, Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)). On her own site, Speller explains:

Woodstock is an ensemble. There are two voices and the beat in this WIP… the Narrator’s voice, Hitchcock’s, and “That Yoni”... by JuseBeats!

You can configure those two voices at the bottom of the page. You'll need a browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox to be able to make the recitation work. There are also two text boxes, for you to fill in your own lines. Fill them in and click the Play button on the music player at the bottom of the page.

Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars))

• In a walk through Whole Foods like HitchcockHe keeps going on and on and on!
• HELP
• In his magnum opus
• about a world… full of extras
• in architectonic loops and links, alliteration and reverie, force, ballast, fancy partitions, linear renderings, systems of reckoning and more — of her…
• He wants
• Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
• Zufi, the Saperavi
• He nods
• I’m thinking
• Disappointed… in us!
• [There’s no other way to say it — I can’t dress it up]
• Caught between a slumbering scream and Vertigo
• Cruising isles and isles of sweet and sour
• People who think they are special
• People who know they are not
• People who wish they were
• Impeccable
• He wants
• Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
• Zufi, the Saperavi
• Whispers prologue
• Guess what we did?
• A Springboard!
• A party of twenty
• Three couples played before
• winking and willing
• shills playing in the round
• Lovely trips on the Hill
• in augmented VR
• A I’m thinking…
• Baby boomers had their turn Woodstock!
• Barefoot bell bottomed hippies
• Denim sweeping the ground
• Revolutionary hair — fists in the air
• Dragging us back in the mud
• Blunt antiquity
• Move on Woodstock!
• Take your shades, caps, change and loose articles
• Bombs in black holes!
• [Where did you go?]
• We should be sunning in the Bahamas
• chilling on hemp swings and
• chairs swiveling in immersive environments
• Higher than kite fights
• A soaring for points experience
• Get off the ride Woodstock!
• You had your turn — at freedom
• Thank you
• Exit signs are easy to find — look
• The dragon is in the window
• Freedom is accessible
• Wonder is a trip
• with walk through assistants
• Dreams of power and prizes
• Optional…
• Fall out and Jack into
• a walk through Whole Foods like Hitchcock
• in his magnum opus
• about a world… full of extra
• architectonic loops and links, alliteration and reverie, force, ballast, fancy partitions, linear renderings, systems of reckoning — and more — of her… virtually surreal
• He wants
• Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
• Zufi, the Saperavi
• Whispers song
• We don’t want to feel we’re high…
• We just want to think we’re high
• in Dubai
• We don’t want to feel we’re high…
• We just want to think we’re high
• in Dubai
• © 2016 E Maria Shelton Speller