[Reader-list] [Announcements] Interactive Poem/Musical-Composition Game Receives LEF Grant

[Mark Marino]

Oni Buchanan has just received a $5000 grant from the LEF foudnation in
support of her project, "Moths Drink the Tears," an innovative forthcoming
work of electronic literature.

"Moths Drink the Tears" will take the form of an interactive game-poem where
player movements reveal corresponding lines of poetry and music. "Moths"
loosely appropriates the exploration-based interactive fiction structures of
80's exploratory adventure games.  The videogame itself is driven by a
separate intricate narrative full of nested puzzles that the user needs to
solve in order both to finish the game as well as to discover the full
"Moths Drink the Tears" text hidden within the castle walls.

Buchanan is collaborating with composer Lisa Mezzacappa (
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com) on a full-scale musical composition element.
Mezzacappa and her bass and percussion ensemble "duo B" (
http://www.duobmusic.com) will create an interactive music composition,
working through the entire "Moths Drink the Tears" poem text, tagging each
line of the poem with an original musical counterpart.  When the line of
poetry is found, its corresponding musical phrase will play.  At any time
during the game, users will be able to "play" their poem as a realized
musical score, listening to all of the collected musical phrases.

Buchanan is uniquely positioned to orchestrate this collaboration.  She is a
celebrated pianist and award-winning poet, holding degrees from both the New
England Conservatory of Music and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

A private foundation, the LEF supports contemporary work in the arts.
(http://lef-foundation.org/page.php/id/160). The Electronic Literature
Organization will be administering the grant on behalf of the artists.  The
ELO also plans to present the work at a future conference.

For more information, contact Oni Buchanan (onibuchanan at gmail.com,
http://www.onibuchanan.com/).


Mark Marino
Communications
Electronic Literature Organization
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