An Incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein's poem "A Completed Portrait of Picasso" is read by the author and illustrated with animated replicas of some of Picasso's paintings and sculptures. The soundtrack, in 7-equal steps per octave, provides a rap-like background for Stein's driving refrain "Now, not now, and Now". The opening image, in true snake-bites-its-tail style, is Picasso's portrait of Stein!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Gertrude Stein
• Pablo Picasso
• poetry
• spoken word
• 7-tone-equal temperament
• animated paintings

[LenardSkinheads]

nice, very nice

[geoffreyefloyd]

it doesn't sound strained because he alters the timbre to match the scale tones...not like tuning a piano to 7tet that would sound terrible. he alters the harmonics of the timbre to match 7tet scale tones. Lots of info on his site his name is bill sethares and he is fairly well known in music theory circles.

[h92o]

text poem response to piece

now > not now > and now >

was first to do as presently present was and is finds that there was not theirs exactly in the present of now that will be come of the one not two inside the the the inside the.,

[iranief]

groovy!

[clones98]

excellent - this works very well. your treatment of 7 -ET sounds quite natural and not strained. Its like a south east asian jazz hybrid.

[AmandaDelight]

Very nice.