Limited Fork
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 16 years ago -The Limited Fork show featuring POAMs: Products of Acts of Making in fulfillment of principles of Limited Fork Poetics: the study of interacting language systems, where the visual, sonic, tactile, and olfactory meet to form and reform (compelling) structures. Where focus on an intensely stabilizing area can still produce (forms of) sonnets that will maintain a particular form for only a limited period of time after which other structure(s) emerge, some of the emergence occurring across physical, sensory, and other dimensions.
This podcast is the place where POAMS, products of acts of making, will evolve, for the idea (as well as the poams that come out of the idea) is dynamic, seeking ways to fulfill the need for expression that coincides with unfolding understandings of existence. At the end of one of the branching roots of LFP and at the tip of one of the branches is belief in the pleasure of making things, a pleasure increased by acts of making that understand and try to take advantage of the range of what is possible and available.
BY FOCUSING ON INTERACTIONS, THE WHOLENESS OF THE ORGANISM IS EMPHASIZED.
The LFP experiment will showcase successes and failures, for the dead ends, the branches that do not bear sweet fruit, edible fruit, or any fruit at all, nevertheless contribute meaningfully to the recognizable structure of the tree. Perhaps the beauty of the tree depends on the presence of some dead ends.
Every week, there will be a visual or sonic episode (a branch) that reflects the current status of the ongoing study of interacting language systems. The LFP show will always present what is within its changing limits. Not (just) poems, but POAMS.
To hear more music of Limited Fork, visit the Limited Fork Music podcast. For more Limited Fork movies, visit the Limited Fork Video Anthology to download the video work of student and other practitioners of what Limited Fork Poetics enables and encourages.
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Episodes
"Mother's Day" Graphic Prose Poam
March 07, 2008 21:39 - 29.9 MB VideoSlideshow of "Mother's Day," a graphic prose poam in eight 20x30 panels, part of the Place.Mark exhibition opening 7 March 2008 at the Work Gallery on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Features text extracted from conversations that took place between Thylias Moss and Ansted Moss, beginning in 1999 when he was eight-years-old, and features images captured with a digital SLR camera, a digital point-and-shoot camera, a 50x USB microscope, a camera phone, and a Polaroid camera. Images of T...
Detroit Intersections Project: Cogs in the Glass Machine
March 07, 2008 21:36 - 31.4 MB VideoSlideshow of the window installation at Work Gallery - Detroit featuring "Cogs in the Glass Machine," a Detroit Intersections Project on which Jim Cogswell, visual artist, and Thylias Moss, text artist, collaborated. The text may be downloaded in pdf format in another episode of this podcast.
Cogs In The Glass Machine
March 07, 2008 21:34 - 28.3 KB application/pdfText of the window project in collaboration with Jim Cogswell for an installation on the windows of the Work Gallery - Detroit. A slideshow of the installation may be experienced in another episode of this podcast.
Heat Dozens ELEMENTS OF DAMAGE
December 22, 2007 10:57 - 3 minutes - 45.9 MB VideoVideo poam stanza of the longer video study "Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings," with sound by Strexx of http://www.strexx.com who wrangled the sound produced by an Empire toy stove and used it to form the basis of damage control audio for the soundtrack. This poam explores a system trying to organize itself, seeking a point of unification for its population, a theme that will have some joyousness tethered to it, too, for emerging, for existing, and for functioning as connective tissue so wh...
Heat Dozens with Lightning Wings
November 15, 2007 19:26 - 14 minutes - 164 MB VideoA video poam exploring the mapping of neural networks in the mind through the linking of memory, a toy stove, the body's physiological responses to neurological temporary neurological damage, and imagination. Ideas about heat from one hub of this network, a hub which allows this hub to connect with other idea hubs in the mind. Anyone watching "Heat Dozens" has an opportunity to form a memory of the video poam and to form a network of associations formed by elements in the video poam linking...
Bubbling to Memphis (low res)
May 08, 2007 17:19 - 2 minutes - 3.9 MB VideoEGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs in this low resolution version of the "Bubbling to Memphis" video poam for those with storage issues. The compression will be strained on those large LCD and plasma monitors, but on a portable device, it should look fine. A video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces that may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The ...
Bubbling to Memphis (high res)
May 08, 2007 17:04 - 2 minutes - 69.3 MB VideoEGGS! VISUAL I SPY! Look closely at the eggs, in the eggs, in the eggs within eggs. A limited fork video poam that is a component of the Bubbling series that explores interior activities and the architecture of spaces which may be accessed when expansion occurs in or near centers. The series investigates what happens to notions of containment in such situations. This video poam is for Primus. Thank you for asking me for a video poam when I was in a location (the middle of an investigation) ...
LFMK
May 08, 2007 16:48 - 4 minutes - 112 MB VideoLFMK is a video poam made for the SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center & SafeHouse Center) "rEVOLUTION" show in the Duderstadt Center Gallery to launch the LFMK brand. LFMK (Looking for My Killer) is a (type of) PSA that hopes to call attention to the vulnerability of humanity through an extreme selfless act, that of a woman using herself to attract the attention of an attacker in order to protect other women the attacker might pursue if she were not willingly available. Be...
In Your Face
March 02, 2007 02:37 - 54 seconds - 10.2 MB VideoA video poam that explores what is just out of reach, at the 50x scale where there is enough resemblance to soothe and enough enhancement to unsettle. What is seen of the eye, by the way, at the 50x scale is the (magnified) iris and the (magnified) pupil. The white part of the eye is not visibile except for a fraction of it for a second. Made in attempts to distract myself from the recent loss of 600GB of data when a 1TB external hard drive failed at the moment that I was trying to move w...
Monday Aardvark of Laundry DETONATED (updated)
March 01, 2007 05:17 - 2 minutes - 32.2 MB VideoShort form of the longer update, both of which feature more images by Ansted Moss. This video poam explores how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location. The update became necessary when external hard drive failure caused the loss of some of the source files. This piece is the outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention. Thank you, Evie, for asking for a poam when I was d...
Monday Aardvark of Laundry (updated)
March 01, 2007 05:01 - 11 minutes - 133 MB VideoThis updated version of the full-length video poam is about how war and other physically, emotionally, and psychologically turbulent situations affect attempts to do laundry in an otherwise comfortable urban location. Featuring more images by Ansted Moss, the update became necessary to make when an external hard drive failure destroyed some of the source files. The update is an outcome of salvage, replacement, and reinvention. The sound poam portion comes from a print piece prepared for M...
Monday Aardvark DETONATED
February 16, 2007 19:23 - 2 minutes - 12.6 MB VideoShort video poam form of "Monday Aardvark of Laundry." Features images by Ansted Moss and faces of Martha, Mattie, and Donna --thanks for the likenesses. Thanks also to Evie of MiPO who got this bifurcating Aardvark bifurcation started.
Monday Aardvark of Laundry
February 16, 2007 16:02 - 11 minutes - 54.3 MB VideoA video poam exploration of some of the visual potential of some of the content of the sound & text poams of the same name. This video poam is also for Evie of MiPO who asked me to submit some work. Thanks for getting this tine of the fork in motion. This video poam is not likely to be the final bifurcation. "Monday Aardvark of Laundry" contains images by Ansted Moss (see more of his visual work at abstract-projections.com) and Thylias Moss. The "Monday Aardvark" sound poam is available ...
Verde: the greening of electrons
February 15, 2007 19:32 - 5 minutes - 57.9 MB VideoVideo poam treatment of "Verde," a prose piece available at poetrymagazine.org. The video includes Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca from the poem "Somnambule Ballad," and a still image by Ansted Moss whose image work may be seen at abstract-projections.com. The soundtrack is available in Limited Fork Music.
Pi Complex (short)
February 03, 2007 09:48 - 2 minutes - 27 MB VideoVideo poam short of the installation projection piece in three parts, each about 9.42 minutes long. Related to "Pi Song" and to the video poam "Tornado Pi," and features close-ups of two of the human vortices. Explores merging, diverging, and fluctuating identities. Dreams of golden ratios. Also related to the video poam "Place Value." I am grateful for the generous participation of two University of Michigan practitioners of Limited Fork Poetics: Rachel Harkai and Nate Barron who has ...
Rush Hour
January 30, 2007 23:12 - 2 minutes - 29.7 MB VideoA video poam of "Rush Hour," from my first collection of poetry, and a companion piece to the sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space. Intersects with and departs from "Rush Hour (too)," a video poam available in this podcast. The soundtrack of this video poam is available from the Limited Fork Music podcast.
Rush Hour (too)
January 25, 2007 17:01 - 2 minutes - 29.6 MB VideoVideo poam companion to "Rush Hour" sound poam in the Limited Fork Music podcast, made for Phoebe and Kathy of Symphony Space and for the adult literacy students who used "Rush Hour" in their program. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to revisit a poem from my first book.
Limited Fork Quality Control (CREW 2.0)
December 07, 2006 19:48 - 25 minutes - 28.7 MBA spoken poam for practitioners, dabbler or immersed, the curious and for the attendees --also for those who could not attend-- my CREW (Collaboratory for Reseach in Electronic Work) Seminar last week in the School of Information (north campus), a session during which an attendee in the remote West Hall (central campus)location asked me about the challenge of judging the quality of Limited Fork poams if there are no boundaries to what may achieve the status of poam. This audio poam comes fro...
Why Fork? (Cheryl's Q, My A)
December 01, 2006 19:08 - 24 minutes - 27.7 MBAn answer poam for Cheryl's question about why a fork is the instrument of this poetics of interacting language systems, why a fork is the tool of choice for making. An answer poam for Cheryl that is also for the participants of the CREW seminar (for whom this answer poam is also a ladder).
Forks & Ladders (an introductory audio map of LFP structure)
November 09, 2006 11:36 - 18 minutes - 21 MBThis sonic poam is for Profjr!, and for any others curious about the basics of what happens when formal poetic structures are forked. Just a little bare-bones map of fork possibilities to consider when laboring through an act of making and hoping for multiples, but not necessarily identicals or even twins at all. If something's born on/in/over/under/through/with/navigating/zigzagging/climbing/opening/folding/unfolding [& so forth] the ladder, and you'd like to share it with me (and possibly...
Ostrich Culture of Snowmen video poam
November 02, 2006 17:53 - 15 minutes - 171 MB VideoThis video poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems, and is part of the Limited Fork Simultaneity Studies Series. This video poam forms different structures (including structures of meaning) when it interacts with static and focused platforms (also achievable by pause functions) such as document forms such as ...
Ostrich Culture of Snowmen picture book
November 02, 2006 07:05 - 2 seconds - 3.71 MB application/pdfA book of still poams, images from "Ostrich Culture of Snowmen" from the Limited Fork Poetics simultaneity studies video series. Companion poams are available in this podcast and in the Limited Fork Music podcast. This visual poam, dedicated to Haesong Kwon and the CREAM CITY REVIEW where "The Culture of Snowmen" appeared as a print object poam, is a product of investigations of scale and simultaneity of activity in interactions in language systems. The print object poam "The Culture of Sno...
Tornado Pi
October 24, 2006 19:17 - 15 minutes - 185 MB VideoA video poam for Mikel Alvarez whose request for the sound poam "Tornados" led to the creation of this video poam. I hope you like it, Mikel. "Tornado Pi" contains an image of the mother of Limited Fork Poetics taken by Ansted Moss. "Tornado Pi" also contains footage of the "Pi Song" ENG 429 players: Nate Barron, Rachel Harkai, Jennifer Obidike, Julia Ris, and Jennifer Sharkey. Nate and Jennifer Sharkey's video poams are available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast. The soundtrack of...
[the look of] (Incredible) ACCESS
October 06, 2006 14:11 - 9 minutes - 111 MB VideoThis video poam reconfigures, in a context of access, images taken by the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio on the occasion of their visit to the north campus of the University of Michigan. The MADD Poets are Making a Direct Difference in their community with positive actions. Their Director is David Bush.
[the sound of] (Incredible) ACCESS
October 06, 2006 14:08 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MBAudio extraction from the (Incredible) ACCESS video poam; a sound poam of only the words spoken about access, inspired by the occasion on which the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio came to the north campus of the University of Michigan. David Bush is Director of the MADD Poets Society.
Tines Three
October 04, 2006 15:48 - 14 minutes - 169 MB VideoA medley of three video poams made by three teams of members of the MADD Poets Society of Toledo, Ohio during their single day of access to Limited Fork Poetics and the north campus of the University of Michigan in April 2006. The MADD Poets Society is a group of teens Making A Direct Difference through positive actions in their community. David Bush is the director of the MADD Poets Society.
Pleasurable Complexity
September 26, 2006 09:15 - 7 minutes - 83 MB VideoThis movie poam debuted at the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event on 14 September at the University of Michigan. The theme is "place value: implications of the lattice." 37 layers (communities) of interacting language systems (communities) are latticed in the making of this poam. Poams related to this theme, including a "Pleasurable Complexity event book," may be found throughout all three Limited Fork podcasts: Limited Fork, Limited Fork Music, and Limited Fork Video Antho...
"Lattice Looking" book
September 24, 2006 23:09 - 2 seconds - 5.35 MB application/pdfThis visual poam is a companion to the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that considered notions of place value and implications of the lattice. Some of Ansted's lattice looking images were part of a larger lattice or woven piece featuring the poam "Shadowbox Suite" by KC Trommer. This larger piece, "Latticed Shadowbox Suite," is available in the Limited Fork Video Anthology podcast and in the Limited Fork podcast. Other pieces related to the "Pleasurable Complexity" are ...
"Lattice Looking" slideshow
September 24, 2006 23:07 - 7 minutes - 89.8 MB VideoA video poam exploring implications of the lattice in conjunction with the "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork event on 14 September. A variation of the image sequence is also woven (interacting) into "Latticed Shadowbox Suite" which also features work by KC Trommer, a Limited Fork practitioner, and cellist Pablo Casals performing a suite for cello by Bach. Related poams are available in this and other Limited Fork podcasts. These poams are part of a lattice of inquiry considering notion...
Place Value
September 24, 2006 21:45 - 29 minutes - 333 MB VideoA video poam (product of an act of making) exploring scale and the simultaneity of experience in interacting language systems which form and reform poetic structures as a consequence of the ways in which their existences fold and unfold. "Place Value" is also about the location of poetry and the need for people to be (more) receptive to the incredible readiness for poetry exhibited by all that exists. The poam considers how value both is and isn't assigned to instances of this incredible re...
Latticed Shadowbox Suite
September 24, 2006 20:33 - 2 minutes - 32.7 MB VideoThis video poam is an unintended collaboration that in the lack of intention becomes a lattice itself, a community of interactions from multiple locations intersecting on a number of levels (or lattices). The compatibility of KC's video, and the spoken language with Ansted's images seems designed rather than incidental, yet it wasn't until I had these separate components for the Gallery exhibit component of "Pleasurable Complexity" Limited Fork poetry event that I realized the benefit of see...
On the Curve (of solving for B)
September 23, 2006 11:40 - 40.5 KB application/pdfText of poam (product of an act if making) part of a University of Michigan Engineering 477 VRML (virtual reality modeling language) Project, Fall 2003, related to themes, images, & attempts to locate what remains dealt with in Tokyo Butter © 2006 by Thylias Moss. This poem, though a part of the book, is outside the book. Go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/class/eng477/projectsf03/POEM/Report/Report.html to see details of the Virtual reality Modeling Language project.
Project Genealogy (why I wrote Slave Moth)
September 23, 2006 11:30 - 7 minutes - 24.2 MB VideoThis movie poam explores what led me to write the narrative in verse SLAVE MOTH when my son, the composer of the soundtrack for this short movie poam, was in sixth grade at a grade-six-through-twelve school. During a meeting, some parents wanted to ban a required ninth-grade ancestry assignment that was embarrassing, humiliating, and demeaning for disclosing that their sons could trace their ancestry no further than slavery. Right away, I realized the need for other models of slavery so tha...
Cosmic Bullets by Thylias Moss
September 21, 2006 11:41 - 4 minutes - 5.66 MBpoetry as sound art (a poam) --companion to the 15-minute online poetry writing friendly competition at quickmuse.com (see the 27 June archived agon for the real time play back of the writing of the poem and to read the finished static piece)
DOD - the death of depth
September 21, 2006 11:34 - 30 minutes - 99.7 MB VideoDOD is a theory piece of Limited Fork Poetics, an experimental film that celebrates how text, sound, and both moving and static images can form sensory communities of varying densities while explaining some of what necessitates such explorations. The sensory paths are not duplicates; the sonic is not trying to say what the visual image is saying or the visual text, but they are all commenting on shared existence, so there are moments of convergence, and moments that contemplate, even if they...
"Glory" from LAST CHANCE FOR THE TARZAN HOLLER
September 20, 2006 11:40 - 27 minutes - 32 MB2002 performance of "Glory" in which the poet speaks and sings the words, allowing the music composed and performed by Ansted Moss to reshape them for their occupancy of the sonic page instead of the 2D page.
The Song of Iota song
September 20, 2006 11:31 - 21 minutes - 29 MBSoundtrack from the first Limited Fork video piece "The Song of Iota," October 2004. The text of this piece, adapted from the video piece where the text was composed, also exists as a print object in Gargoyle 50.
The Song of Iota
September 20, 2006 11:31 - 21 minutes - 69.2 MB VideoThe first LFP poam. Limited Fork Poetics was born in October 2004 when I watched the closing credits of a movie at the Quality 16 Cinema. It was a moment of convergence in which separate strands of knowing intertwined. I became fluent in the language of activity, the language of shifting structures, the language of impermanence. I became aware of more ways to respond to experience, and though the palette is heavier, I appreciate the enhanced options. There are infinite communities, and i...
A Generalized Mapping of Limited Fork Poetics as of May 2006
September 15, 2006 11:39 - 1 second - 205 KB application/pdfAn essay that defines Limited Fork Poetics, the study of interacting language systems, as of May 2006.
Pi Song (to 100 places)
September 14, 2006 11:41 - 3 minutes - 4.24 MBsound art; a poam that continues a consideration of the theme of place value. also a companion (not a close relative) of the video art piece "Pi Complex," not yet part of the podcast.
Pleasurable Complexity event book
September 10, 2006 11:38 - 2 seconds - 3.3 MB application/pdfA book of interactions between two visual language systems, images and words, to accompany the 14 September (and as of 15 September, to document the) presentation of "WORKS OF PLEASURABLE COMPLEXITY, a LIMITED FORK POETICS EVENT" by Thylias Moss of the University of Michigan and John Chervinsky of Harvard University. All images © John Chervinsky, 2005. See more at http://www.chervinsky.org
The Culture of Funnel Cake song
September 09, 2006 06:16 - 4 minutes - 8.26 MBsoundtrack from the experimental poetry short "the culture of funnel cake" from the early days of Limited Fork Poetics
The Culture of Funnel Cake
September 08, 2006 12:19 - 6 minutes - 23.9 MB VideoExperimental poetry short from the early days (late 2004) of Limited Fork Poetics with images and soundtrack by Ansted Moss, animated text and vocalizations by Thylias Moss interacting in a hybrid literary form (a poam)