An interactive short story, A MODERN GHOST explores a young man's memories of a love that was never realized.Featuring an original soundtrack, 22 photo illustrations, and a few innovative surprises, it is the first release by digital literature studio AltSalt.LENGTH: 3-5 minutes
(Source: App store description of the work)
This is a story about a girl, a woman and an old sailor told in images, sounds and fragments of text that the reader must find by navigating through a dreamlike ocean landscape. By taking advantage of the affordances of a tablet, Simon Flesser and Magnus Gardebäck have created a fictional world built on an exceptional lyrical narrative, engaging graphics and a soundtrack that completes a well balanced enviroment that readers will love to navigate. The work uses the iPad in portrait mode, and begins with a dark screen with the words: “It’s night.” The reader swipes the words to the left to read more, sentence by sentence on the dark screen: “A girl lies in her bed. There’s not a sound. No footsteps in the hallway, no one talking or whispering. Everything is quiet. The girl shuts her eyes.” The sound of waves fades in, and you see you are in the ocean with islands to explore. A visual hypertext without links, you navigate through this world finding spaces that lead to short texts that seen together tell a story of loss, memories and fire.
radioELO archives and curates aural information associated with works of electronic literature. This might include author traversals of their work(s) during which they discuss their inspirations and problem solving, or the state of electronic literature at the time of their creation(s). Reevaluations and retrospectives, commentary and reviews, even testimonials, memoirs, and oral histories may also be included. Beyond spoken voice, radioELO also archives soundtracks, soundscapes, and sound collages associated with or considered as individual works of electronic literature. With such information available for on demand, online listening, radioELO is a laboratory in which to examine and discuss the changing nature(s) of electronic literature. Works featured in radioELO are: eLiterature A-Z (Roderick Coover), Soundscapes and Computational Audio-Visual Works (Jim Bizzochi and Justine Bizzochi), Song for the Working Fly (Alan Bigelow), No Booze Tonight (Steven Wingate), ARCHIVERSE In Relation ELO 2014 (Jeff T. Johnson and Andrew Klobucar), The Obsolete Book in a Post-Obsolete World as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance (Eric Suzanne), “Where’s Waldo?::Where’s the Text?” (John Barber), Sc4nda1 in New Media (Stuart Moulthrop), Radio Salience (Stuart Moulthrop), Under Language (Stuart Moulthrop), Circuits—from River Island (John Cayley), Califia (M. D. Coverley), The Unknown (William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, Frank Marquardt, and Dirk Stratton), The Roar of Destiny (Judy Malloy), Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse (John McDaid), Pieces for Simultaneous Voices (Jim Rosenberg). All sound fragments are available at the source listed below.
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