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Show 02.01.2010 culture Out of this world performance Local poet encourages artisti should stay that way expression | •KENNETH STYLES L.TYS0N PETERSON Culture vyriter V \ As the lights began to dim in the Madsen Recital Hall on the evening of Jan. 28, the chattering of students was silencfd by abnormal sounds from the future. The Utah Crosstalk, an electronic collaboration between BYU and U of U, sounded nothing like popular electronic music from,\ say, Ratatat or Explosions in the Sky. Instead, it was a freakish mixture of beeps and creepy technological noise. As the music began, those in attendance tried to make out the sounds they were hearing, which was nearly impossible. Rather than identifying with music, the show was more closely Margot Murdoch gave an unsettling performance of awkrelated to soundtracks like ward vocals and gestures "Star Wars," a malfunctionBree Leach, a BYU student ing robot or futuristic video really awkward for everywho was obviously taken one involved. game. aback by the performance. A variety of clicks, Flutes echoing in the humming sounds and Although she is not background gave the first nonsense words poured an artist, she felt that the bizarre piece, "Aerospace out of her mouth ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ music could most Plastic & Kernel/Seed", a almost like it was definitely be in a sort of "Ferngully" feel to "I can honestly movie like "Mian alien language. it. say it tingled nority Report" The audience was The electronic sounds my s e n s e s . " or on a ride at bewildered and that Utah Crosstalk had relieved when she Disneyland. created kept the audience Bree Leach, BYU finished. She re"It was most at a loss for words. Most Student ceived a standing definitely somepeople, confused and ovation by only thing new and slightly disturbed, were one student in attendance. interesting," said Austin looking around as if waitTaylor, a BYU student "Clockwork soul," by ing for something more. unfortunate enough to be in A. Whatcott, was the sole The fifth piece, "Sethe audience. piece with any sort of strucquenza III," was exactly ture. With bombs going off If you are looking what they were not waiting and what seemed to be the for something out of this for. It was a vocal piece sound of a heartbeat in the world, literally, that should performed by Margot background members of the never again be performed Murdoch. She was reading audience listened in warily. on this planet, feel free to -the music off a script but It was the only semi-reendure this production. hat was coming out of Otherwise, be content with •" mouth was lfl#ftSlH^ 4 . i the sounds of planet Earth. "I can honestly say it ing human ears have ever tingled my senses," said heard. Margot made things him understand the art better. He is currently working with a Salt Lake City artist, Dave Hall. At the end of his readings Long gave some time for questions and answers. When asked what drew him into writing poetry. Long's answer was of course, it was a teacher who inspired him. He remembered his teacher James Doyle, quite vividly. He was a heavyset man with no front teeth because he didn't believe in cosmetics. He spoke wilh a thick Brooklyn accent,;' : and when he read poerrisrhe. read them with energy; and ' vigor. Doyle helped Lq'rijg '• cultivate a love for poetry. • Students who attended ; felt inspired by Long's tfe- : lightful, energetic personality. Two younger students near the front had him; - •• '< in high school, and weJWC; thrilled to hear him spealc. ; Those who attended \6f£-[ edified, uplifted and a-little more inspired in pursuing ' their own ambitions in, art- Culture writer One of Utah's great poet's, Joel Long, spoke in the Student Center Thursday as part of the "Happenings in Humanities Events." Long read sections of his book entitled, "Winged Insects," for which he is most famous. Long is a ninth grade teacher at Rowland Hall in St. Marks School in Salt Lake City. His book "Winged Insects" won him the Mayor's artist award for Literary Arts at The Utah Joel Long read excerpts from his most popular work which won the Mayor's Artist Award for Literary Arts. Arts festival. His poems DIANA PRATT/UVUReview have been published in many magazines across the nation and he is a beloved Utah artist. Along with readings of his poems, Long spoke of the process as well as shared the stories behind his poems. "For a poet to read his poems, that's easy, but for a poet to talk about his life as a poet, now that's a bit harder," Long said. His readings started with one of his older poems entitled "Waking with Sarah." Sarah is his second oldest child, who is now 16. He wrote the poem when she was just two years old. As his readings went on he shared more poems inspired by Sarah, and one inspired by his oldest daughter, Hannah, who is now 20. "I'm constantly seeing the world in metaphor. It's how I understand the world, and how I read it," Long said. His newest project involves a passion from his past, art history. Long has' taught art history and enjoys writing poems to help Timpanogos Qtorytelling Midwinter Concerts and Conference February 3-6, 2010 Pf- *> •' *••• . . ... .. .•-.•"• ^ T 1 . -. \ j f >i>.- ' . A i ^ T . 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