June 15, 2004
Turbulence Commission: "tone row poetry" by Lewis LaCook
http://turbulence.org/works/lacook

"tone row poetry" is an algorithmically mediated synaesthesia. Inspired
by 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg's serialist music, the work
matches the English alphabet with tones from the chromatic western
scale. Every letter is a note, and a few are several. Add to this
electric guitar, digital waveform synthesizer coloring, and some
wildcard events, all performed by LaCook, and "tone row poetry" becomes
a writing machine that is also an alien orchestra.

"tone row poetry" is a 2004 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts,
(aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with
funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

BIOGRAPHY

Lewis LaCook is a web artist, poet, musician and freelance writer/web
developer. He began life as a poet, then drifted into hypermedia,
working mostly with Macromedia Flash and PHP/MySQL. Along the way,
LaCook's works, both text and not-text, have appeared in Cauldron and
Net, CTheory Multimedia, Aught, Lost and Found Times, 5_trope, Rhizome's
artBase, Rhizome's Net Art News, Furtherfield.org, MetaMute,
x-press(ed), Can We Have Our Ball Back? and Shampoo, among many others.
Lewis currently lives and works in Lorain, Ohio.

For more information about Turbulence, visit http://turbulence.org