Heurtebise from Cocteau's OrpheeThe Lipstick of NoiseReel to reel deck

 

Terminology note: By analogy with Barthes's lexias, I'd like to call those segments of auditory experience into which our hearing of a poem divides "audias" (singular: audia). I supply the following transcript, generated using the "label track" function of Audacity, as a way of beginning to think more seriously about how sentence, line, and audia interact and inform the analysis of poetry soundfiles. [Back to Lipstick of Noise.]

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - from "Safety"

5.576000 urban space is a series of partial views
8.815000 convex
9.778500 opaque

12.084750 you go from mass to detail
14.442250 individuals
15.846500 little ants

18.439750 the instinct to preserve yourself deflects into vertigo from the domination of space
25.379000 fear of death to fear of damage to a beautiful body

30.483500 you connect dwelling to a child guarded by a woman
34.265750 its fate is foretold
36.223500 child implicit in a word chain flash flowers in ice

41.369000 in the days we have left we could count our probable meetings
45.971250 first their surface content
48.257000 then in your language as in my dream
51.465250 the more disconnected arbitrary your monologue
54.991250 the more it correlates to something latent in that moment
59.327000 separation
60.844000 flowers in ic

62.719750 it's not raining but it's as if there were mud everywhere & you're plastered in mud
68.992750 when a person falls in front of you
71.770500 something like rain washes mud away
74.292000 & his leg becomes white as a piece of marble
77.797500 being with each other
79.786000 response comes from both sides
82.297250 we want to reveal & reveal conceal nothing
85.802750 but there's a sense something does not get across, a secret

90.589500 in this sense hospitality between us is a secret interior

96.503750 instead of reality being a plaintiff's responsibility

101.075250 shards, details, singularity
104.273250 garden in winter and glass palms
107.256000 extreme refinement of the civility

110.320750 there's a linking of structure by joint & weld
114.369500 a springiness and an unlinking across an expanse
118.941000 the rigor of the link is an artifact
122.764250 its volume is innate in the witness
126.126250 leg covered over

128.289000 memorialized by what I saw
131.189750 concealed, closed
132.932250 covered with sight as with gauze
135.566500 light surface with which I wrap you light trampoline