On 4/23/06, Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of any poetry set to electronic music? > I wondered if it's been done. I collect these sort of projects - > traditional poems set to music (as opposed to spoken word). I started > after buying Nikki Giovanni's album which is stellar. I just got an > incredible album RADA did a while ago with Shakespeare readings as > well as some songs - Bryan Ferry sings the immortal "Shall I Compare > Thee..." It's more traditional pop, the music, not electronic. > I realised lately that Propaganda's A Dream Within A Dream is Poe's > poem set to music (funny, I assumed it was Shakespeare), but want > other examples.
i have this really great LP of walt whitman's "i sing the body electric" spoken over an atmospheric orchestral kind of thing that sounds more ambient than classical.......... tom
