During his research stay at LCE, Bermúdez will work on a project called "Felt Anticipation. Rhythm, Expectation and Abstraction in Poetic Spoken Atmospheres."
Please tell us more about your research at LCE, Víctor.
Felt Anticipation addresses the notion of 'poetic spoken atmosphere' as a phenomenon emerging at the intersection of the poetic language and a listener. Such 'poetic spoken atmospheres' underline the importance of voice and its effects in poetry reception in order to investigate sound patterns and meaning-making dynamics, approaching three specific processes: rhythm, expectation and abstraction.
During my research stay I will work on the theoretical-cognitive frame necessary to study how pre-formed embodied linguistic structures underlie the 'feeling of understanding' in the listener. I would like to contrast my theoretical approach with empirical work, and learn more from the LCE team when it comes to different methods for approaching poetry.
What are the most interesting poems if readers want to experience 'spoken poetic atmospheres' for themselves?
'Spoken poetic atmospheres’ is a theoretical notion with which I approach acoustic aspects of poetry, and it could potentially be applied to far too many cases to detail here.
For the purpose of my presentation at LCE, I will examine Danish Inger Christensen and Spanish Antonio Gamoneda’s work.
- Several extracts of Inger Christensen’s Alfabet were recorded at Hause für Poesie Berlin and can be found at Lyrik-line’s platform. Additionally, Sommerfugledalen was recorded in studio and can be found on Spotify. (External links)
- Antonio Gamoneda, whose poetry can also be found on Lyrik-line. (External link)