Associação Cultural Videobrasil

direction and videoart - Walter Silveira 

videos - tvgrama 2, pós-tudo

electric bass, MIDI electric guitar - Cid Campos 

poems reading - Augusto de Campos

cançãonoturnadabaleia - TV Cultura ("poetas de campos e espaços")

sos and poem bomb - Augusto and Cid Campos (Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis da Escola Politécnica da USP)

quote - Limite (filme de Mario Peixoto) no barco bêbado; poema-cidade (filme de Chico Cesar e Tata Amaral) em cidade city cité; canti di capricorni (melodia de Giacinto Scelsi, voz: michiko hirayama) na música de cançãonoturnadabaleia; profilograma rimbaud wave (valloton/ hokusai) Augusto de Campos e Arnaldo Antunes

computer graphics - ligia fingers/ tvgrama 1/ gafanhoto(richieri)

slide film - Fernando Laslo

Poesia é risco

The creative and technical resources of electronics used in poetry recitals benefit

New directions for old habits 

The well known restlessness of concrete poet Augusto de Campos has already identified him as a creative explorer on the limits of poetry and the spoken word. Together with video artist Walter Silveira, author of the celebrated VT Preparado AC/JC, and his audacious and creative, techno-musical son, Cid Campos, it has become possible to realize an old project that unites poetry, music, computers and electronic recourses. Poesia é risco is inspired on the necessity to salvage the habit, common in the 50’s, of poets reciting their own poems. Defined by the authors as a “verbicovisual event”, in reality it is a performance already edited on CD, in which the authors themselves execute a unique recital interacting with electronic music, song and videographic images. In their own words it is a “poetry-music interpenetration” or “oralization” - an audio projection of “nearly-singing” or “spokesung” texts. The objective is to explore the dramatic potentiality of the spoken word and promote a restructuring of poetry through the combination of reading, superimposing and fragmenting words and assembling citations with the aid of computer resources, synthesizers, samplers and multichannel recordings. Or as the authors clarify, “to create with the use of new technologies and by way of functional and innovative interpretations an intimate relation between poetry/music/video, establishing new dimensions for the recital of poetry - its oralization".

ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "11º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil " [11th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival]: from november 11 to november 17, 1996, p. 85, São Paulo, SP, 1996.