Intervalles 4/5: Interdisciplinary Transcriptions, a digital anthology highlighting poetry, prose and sound that has developed from a wide range of transcription practices, was released last week . The concept, developed by Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch, is broad, including work that is transcribed after it is spoken aloud, and other works that inform and are informed by assorted media.

Pieces in the 1,000+ page anthology are prefaced by an explanation as to how they fit under the banner of “transcription” – for example, Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer’s collaborative poem “Oregon” is prefaced by:  

“Oregon” was written collaboratively, one word at a time, in a car between the southern border of Oregon and Eugene. It was recorded into a minidisk player and later transcribed. No editing of any kind, except for determining where line breaks should fall, was done. It was read that night at a reading straight from the laptop on which it had been transcribed. This seemed quite modern at the time.