Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about three pieces by the American postmodernist 
John Barth: The Literature of Exhaustion, The Literature of Replenishment, and Title.
Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about three pieces by the American postmodernist John Barth: The Literature of Exhaustion, The Literature of Replenishment, and Title.
Fascinating episode! Like David, I’ve now decided I need to start reading Borges.
I was surprised when Michial mentioned his old idea for a post-modern poem made of sound-bites picked up flipping through the channels, because Scott Walker (the experimental musician, not the Wisconsin governor) composed a song using exactly that method:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuQqFGMSN9g&w=854&h=480%5D
…so evidently it’s a concept that you really can pull off with sufficient virtuosity.