https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJHquOEChRg
This is the link to Saul Williams performing his poem, which I read in class today (Friday). In his slam version, he adds part of different poem to the beginning, but the one I did starts pretty soon. Below is him singing it as a rap if you are interested in that as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR58GsgFMcY
I plan on writing more on this poem soon so if anyone is interested we can carry on our discussion in the blog format.
Wow! I love his performance -- one thing I noticed while he was performing was how many S sounds there are in the poem/song. Do you think there is any reason to that? I also liked the way that he didn't stop himself from practically spitting, it kind of got us in his mood. You told the class on Friday that in his performance it's like he's meditating, but I actually really didn't see that, and I saw someone who was performing and being active and not really calming down. Maybe you and I have different definitions of that? I would like to talk more about this, and just to hear more of what you have to think. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI didn't really notice the S thing before, but now that you mention it he does use them a lot, and sort of drags out some of them. I think that he probably did it for poetic reasons, but maybe he just got lucky? I assume he tried to add them when he could though, but I doubt there was a reason for that other than to sound cool. What do you think? I just thought he seemed like he was meditating at some points because he would close his eyes, and look pretty calm despite how intense the poem was. I notice this particularly in the beginning and at the very end.
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ReplyDeleteLike Carmen, I really enjoyed his performance. It's very entrancing and his body movements really added another level of emotion. I feel the beatboxing shouldn't be left out in any rendition of the poem so it's good that you included it. His fast-paced/accelerating delivery of each line is hard to duplicate but you did a great job, Tim, especially with the speed following the breaks.
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