Week 01 [Text-Input]
This exercise reminded me one of Jean-Luc Godard's title sequences, where the titles appear gradually, letter by letter in red and then in blue.
In my mind the appearance of the letters gives them rhythm and creates a sense of curiosity in the viewer.
Although the final result will not provide a new sequence of words,
I found it interesting to observe how the formation of the words introduced the whole paragraph new rhythm.
I created a small exercise where users can input text into a textarea and watch it gradually appear on the screen.
After the text finishes appearing, my initial idea was to make all the text disappear except for one sentence, to illustrate the "title" for the paragraph.
However, I felt it might be more interesting to try switching every letter to each user's secondary keyboard language and replacing every letter with its corresponding key in that layout.
The result produces a kind of "gibberish," but the user can still interpret it as a series of sounds.
I found that distortion introduces an element of randomness that resonates with how sound functions in poetry, where the rhythm and sound often hold just as much meaning as the words themselves.
From a coding perspective, I manually implemented the transformation without incorporating API calls due to time constraints, so it currently only works with the Hebrew language.
READINGS
As I read Virtual muse experiments in computer poetry, I found myself reflecting on how I define poetry and why I struggle to "connect" with poetry in a different language. The author discusses various techniques for generating poetry, offering extensive insights into the use of words, their meanings, and interpretations.
I made notes as I went along.
I think poetry should convey a certain message. This message can vary between each line or stanza. The words are the artistic way the author uses to "craft" the poem. They allow the poet to create tone and rhythm, and enhance the reader's ability to feel the words and their meaning in a different context.
I wonder if there’s a computational technique capable of generating poetry based on a specific message, rather than relying on language-based techniques that create "random" sentences.