Postscript: Dec. 14 — Per William Osborne’s comment, here is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ song “Can’t Hold Us” as performed by Aubrey Logan. I agree with him, heartily. She’s terrific. Her cover swings. If Gysin were around, I think he’d agree. As the song goes, “It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that thing).” And it would be cool if the “experimental word Geeks,” as Osborne puts it, were to pick up on his Gysin / Beckett suggestion.
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I’m surprised that no one, to my knowledge, has yet explored the relationships between Samuel Beckett’s late work “Rockaby” and Brion Gysin’s technique of word order permutation. The potential for using the technique to create highly musical texts also remains inadequately explored.
I just came across Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ song “Can’t Hold Us” as performed by Aubrey Logan. I don’t like the original, but her cover is fantastic, and the text reminds me a bit of word permutation poetry combined with a cross between Rap and jazz scat singing. I thought you and some of your literary friends might like to listen to it, at least for the techniques involved and the remarkable delivery by Logan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwRnzKLqM8
The written text is here. It helps to follow it while Logan sings to see how the text works:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/macklemore/cantholdus.html
Anyway, maybe something of interest for experimental word Geeks…