My latest Txthead is of Ian McMillan, the poet. I’ve taken lots of quotes about him, from his website, and run it all together.
Then I’ve coloured the six discrete letters of his name, and left the rest of the text grey. And cut the result into a profile that looks (a bit) like Ian.
On a whim, I’ve tried singing the resulting text - assigning notes to the coloured letters, and singing the whole text leaving gaps for the letters. The latter I did in C, the coloured letters are in D, E, F, G, A and B. Call it Serialist Phonics; Diatonic Serialist Phonics.
Then I spliced it all back together again.
I love what singing it does to “university”, “Sheffield Hallam”, and (a word that comes up a lot talking about Ian: “include”.
Monday, 22 January 2007
