Dada Sound Poems

"Dada Sound Poems" is a two-part audio piece that I created in the Spring of 2006 for a class called Multimedia Authoring. At the time, the National Gallery of Art was exhibiting a large show on the Dada art movement. Our assignment was to create an audio tour 'in the spirit of Dada' that we would upload to the web in a format that would allow listeners to podcast the projects and listen to them as they viewed the Dada show at the National Gallery. I allowed my piece to lead me in a slightly different direction, and created two sound poems: "What is Dada?"; and "Who is Dada?" that would serve as an introduction or summary of the Dada movement. My goal was to make works from the stance of a Dadist, and in the Dada style. The pieces are each about a minute long, and were created using Pro Tools. All of the sounds and voices, with the exception of the man singing in the second piece and the obvious crashing and shooting sound clips, are my own.

Part I: What is Dada?



Part II: Who is Dada?