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nstabilities 2 [...] subjects a discontinuous text to various kinds of processing. The screen is divided into three sections which counterpoint each other. The top section consists of a video made by Hazel Smith comprising twelve short texts. The middle section consists of the same material processed in the program Jitter by Roger Dean, and involves various forms of overlaying, erasing and stretching of the words. In a third section of the screen the same texts together with others which do not appear in the top movie are processed in real-time by Roger Dean by means of a Text Transformation Toolkit (TTT) written in Python. The processing substitutes words and letters so that new text emerges, together with a spoken realization of some parts of the text, new and old. The pre-written fragments circle around the idea of social, historical, and psychological instabilities, but during the processing new instabilities syntactical, semantic, and phonemic also arise.  Improvised and composed music is performed by Roger Dean, Greg White, Phil Slater and Sandy Evans. In addition, computer-synthesised voices add an aural dimension to textual change.

 soundAFFECTs, employs the text of 'AFFECTions' by Hazel Smith and Anne Brewster, a fictocritical piece about emotion and affect as its base, but converts it into a piece which combines text as moving image and transforming sound. For the multimedia work Roger Dean programmed a performing interface using the real-time image processing program Jitter; he also programmed a performing interface in MAX/MSP to enable algorithmic generation of the sound. This multimedia work has been shown in performance on many occasions projected on a large screen with live music; the text and sound are processed in real time and each performance is different. Discussed in Hazel Smith 2009. “soundAFFECTs: translation, writing, new media, affect” in Sounds in Translation: Intersections of Music, Technology and Society, Amy Chan and Alistair Noble (eds.), ANU E Press, 2009, pp. 9-24. (Republication of earlier version of the article published in the journal Scan).

Re-reading of «Oceanographies (the memory of water)», programmed by Antero de Alda on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum microcomputer, Sever do Vouga, 1/1/1986.

by rt to pt, with advertising soundbites speeches + - slogans advertisements jingles. constellation ?! Combinatory

Inspired by poems by António Gedeão, António Ramos Rosa, Fernando Pessoa, Herberto Helder, Miguel Torga and Ruy Belo. Commissioned by the Museum of the Tree of Alto Minho, Portugal. Combinatory poetry with lexicon of flora from Northern Portugal.

Adventures with inter-linguistic combinatorial poetry, machine translation and text-to-speech.

Mixed-media object. Typography cards; transparent code phone and card poems; web app

Textual combinatics programmed from texts by Abílio-José Santos, with sound.

Textual engine with dialogue between medieval songs (the poetry of troubadourism) and the reinterpretation of them by Salette Tavares. Retextualization to HTML + CSS + XML + JS of poems originally created in Flash / ActionScript (2012)

Textual engine, with sound, from texts and lexicon by Fernando Pessoa and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen. Retextualization to HTML + CSS + XML + JS of poems originally created in Flash / ActionScript (2009)