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Sumner Carnahan
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Aug 9, 2006, 22:30
Melody Sumner Carnahan has six books in print: three story collections and two artist anthologies from Burning Books, and the biography of a Tibetan nobleman (clearlightbooks.org). Numerous short works have been published in magazines and anthologies, including City Lights Review, Leonardo Music Journal, and At A Distance from MIT, 2005. She has worked with composers and performers for two decades to present her writing off-the-page, including "performance novels” with Laetitia Sonami, audioworks and soundtracks for film and video with Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, and in recordings from Tellus, NonesuchElectra, 4-Tay Records, Frog Peak Music, HighMayhem.org, and in Morton Subotnick’s DVD-CDrom, Gestures, from Mode Records. Carnahan was Creative Media Arts Fellow 2000 at ABC Radio /Univ. of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Her book/CD, The Time Is Now, won a 1998 Independent Publisher Award for Audio-Fiction. Woody Vasulka commissioned “The Maiden” for his installation, The Brotherhood, at NTT/ICC, Tokyo, 1998. Other acknowledgements have come from New American Radio, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
"No other writer since e.e.cummings has inspired such a wealth of innovative music." -- The Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
"There have been few precedents to this kind of sustained avant-garde literature with a moving human content." -- The Oakland Tribune
"The most musical prose since Gertrude Stein." -- The Village Voice
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