Know Where to Go Crazy – A Digital Poem by M. D. Friedman

Original poetry, sound art, visual art, photography, and animation by M. D. Friedman highlight this ground breaking video short. This work showcases a growing mastery of M. D.’s combined talents to produce experimental, experiential, electronic literature fusing several multimedia elements into a new genre of poetics. Featuring state of the art 3D animation, “Know Where to Go Crazy” (2009) is a two voice poem with the second voice heard animated into the viewer’s head.Please see http://www.mdfriedman.com to download this video preformatted for your portable video player.

Forever Trespass

“Forever Trespass” is a digital poem exploring the question, “Does the poem own the poet or the poet own poem?” The sound art for this piece was constructed from the 2D (2 directional) poem, “Forever Trespass“. The “normal” voice is reading the poem vertically (down the columns) and the “harmonized” voice is reading the same poem horizontally (across the rows). The video was made by animating my photographs and digital art and integrating it with the original sound art.

The Word, a digital poem

Well I did it. Never wrote anything down. The images along with artwork and photos flooded my mind while I was in the shower. I went downstairs and started freestyling the audio. The sounds then shaped the animation. Suddenly I arrive somewhere I had never been–somewhere in the middle of groans, flashing color & splintered text. It’s the dada fusion of all my creative pursuits at once. It’s a digital poem.  I can’t really explain it, it’s like a digital art, experimental sound, moving text animation experience. It’s The Word

If you do like this kind of thing, you can go to my Lulu Store Front to download it for your i-Pod or Windows-based video player.

I need the encouragement.  I feel like out there on the edge on this one. Show me some love.

~md