The newest issue of The Kootenay School of Writing’s W Magazine—W12 “All Music”–is available on the KSW website: www.kswnet.org.
W12 features a selection of poetry-as-music, music-as-poetry, poetrymusic, and poetry that engages with music on compositional and topical levels by the following contributors:
aBANDon
Ted Byrne
David Ito Chokroun
Judith Copithorne
Halvard Johnson
Amdrew Levy/Gerry Hemmingway
R. Mittenthal and N. Vassilakis
Lia Pas
the pppoetry band
ek rzepka
Steven Ross Smith
Colin Smith
Lynn Starheim
Jeremy Turner
Fred Wah/Jason De Couteau/Orith Fogel
Please note that if you would like to download this issue, you will have two options.
The ideal form of the issue–which contains the audio files embedded in an Adobe .pdf file (as opposed to leaving them out to dry as a supplement)–is really huge [466.6 Mb!] and may take several hours to download depending on your connection. (Yes, we did try to compress the file to make it smaller but were confounded by software limitations).
So, as an alternative, we’ve included W12 as two separate files: a .pdf and an .mp3 file.
We will also mail out a CD-rom of the full issue and/or a CD of the audio files that you can play on a conventional CD player to KSW general mailing list members if you send a SASE (with appropriate postage for sending a CD to your area) to:
W12
c/o The Kootenay School of Writing
Dominion Building
309-207 West Hastings St.
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1H6 CANADA
We hope you enjoy the issue and of course welcome any comments.
Thank you,
Jonathon Wilcke and Nikki Reimer
Editors, W12
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About Downloading W12 “All Music” Read Me First!!
Hello and thanks for downloading the “All Music” issue of W12.You have two options for downloading the issue. 1) W12AllMusicBig.pdf file is an Adobe file with embedded .wav format music files. It is 466.4 MB in size and may take about an hour to download (depending on your connection). The advantage to downloading this file is that the sound quality will be better and plus it incorporates the music as part of the issue itself, which is why we chose to use this format.If you use this version, you must click on the bear to hear the music files. If you click on more than one bear at a time, you will hear multiple tracks together. So to listen to each track by itself in this format, please wait until one track has finished before clicking on a new bear.2) W12AllMusicTextOnly.pdf is a considerably smaller file containing only the text for W12. You will have to download the music, which we’ve uploaded as .mp3 files, separately, meaning that you will need to make 2 separate downloads to get the whole issue. To hear the music, just select the track that corresponds with the title in the issue. We’ve numbered the tracks in order. So please remember to also download the file called W12AllMusicMusicFiles.The advantage to downloading the second version (besides the fact that it’s considerably smaller than option 1 is that you can burn yourself a CD of the music, or listen to the music on your mp3 player or what have you independently of the issue itself. ***Please note that, with the exception of the track titled “^KSWWWWW,” all the Lynn Starheim tunes are very short (less than a second) and are supposed to sound “that way.”*** The issue lists the time for each of these tracks as “0.00″ when really they run about “0.03” seconds or so. It seems that the software will only allow us to list playback times in increments of secondsIf you’re having trouble please contact either Jonathon Wilcke (jonathonnomimi@gmail.com) or Nikki Reimer (nikki_intheleaves@yahoo.com) for help. Thanks! We hope you enjoy the issue.Nikki and Jonathon
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p.s. W13: The Paraliterary Issue will be available soon, no lie.