Becoming a Sound Poet. Paul Dutton’s Poetry in Performance

Abstract

Poet and musician with a background in jazz and blues, member of The Four Horsemen and of Michael Snow’s CCMC, and vocal performer for R. Murray Schafer, in his aural work Paul Dutton stages the split, plural linguistic identity of the Canadian subject. In texts for solo performance, he builds his sound poetry in the interstitial space between music, linguistics and the semantisation of the human voice, while locating his probe of the phonatory system in the realm of clicks, diplo- and triplophonies, animal verses, silence.

Keywords

• sound poetry
• performance
• phonotext
• polyglossia
• pun
• identity