Sound/Text Work

Edited by Alaric Sumner

"The range of work that I present here is diverse, brought together from my enthusiasms. These writers are not a homogeneous grouping. I have brought them together because their work excites me on many levels and because their work prompts me to think about different approaches to text and its sounding.

Is the term 'reading' still useful for describing the activity of experiencing the work of the writers and artists in this section of Riding the Meridian? Is it a useful term for what they do when they work in sound? Indeed, is it an appropriate word to use for the activity of experiencing digital work at all? What new terminology would better describe that activity? In this section I have not sought to resolve questions, but to generate them - questions around performance and the page/the page and the screen. Between the sounds and the sights, between the theory and the practice, between the lines and the digits, I hope you will find in this section languages, meanings, visions and auditions that will lead you into work about which I am passionate."

-- Alaric Sumner, from The Sound/Text Editorial