Tony White, author of Foxy-T and Science Museum writer-in-residence, is hosting a short story workshop next Tuesday (26th August) inspired by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s ‘Listening Post’.
Listening Post immerses the viewer in a rhythm of computer-synthesised voices reading, or singing out, a fluid play of uncensored and unedited real-time text fragments sampled from thousands of live, unrestricted internet chatrooms, bulletin boards and other online public forums. Listening Post asks the question: what might 100,000 people chatting online actually sound like? In the words of the artists, ‘the messages start to form a giant cut-up poem’.
Inspired by Listening Post, this workshop explores the use of experimental writing techniques such as cut-ups to create completely new works of fiction. Participants will be required to bring an A4 notebook or laptop (however you usually write!), and a number of easily obtainable items in order to participate in the workshop. You will use these few items to create a new short story from scratch in one day. Completed stories may be published on the Science Museum website.
Listening Post workshop with Tony White
Tuesday 26th August, 09:45 to 17:00
The Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7
FREE, but pre-booking essential
First posted: Thursday, August 21st, 2008.
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I’m not exacatly sure what was “inspiring,” about this. It gave me the curious sensation that I was buried under a huge pile of….Brylcreem!
Go figure….
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