Revisiting: Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
- Author
- Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org
- Published
- Tue 01 Aug 2023
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_223_7f2654aa-a811-4985-8c23-3c442b669e6d&uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.prx.org%2FHowSound
Summer means cicadas. Those crackly, buzzy bugs that drone and drone in the heat like a live electrical wire spewing sparks. Mair Bosworth and Fiona Benson took that sound and crafted "Magicicada," a stunning "sound poem," as they called it, marrying Mair's stellar recordings and sound design and Fiona's nuanced poetry.
