arnold schoenberg invented 12-tone musical composition over 100 years ago. i became intrigued about applying some of those ideas to poetry when i realized a poem i wrote using multiple cutups used what i thought of as "word rows", a reflection of the "tone rows" used in 12-tone composition.
i won't bore you with the details, but i spent over a month developing the software i use to help me compose "12-tone" poetry. suffice it to say that while language doesn't incorporate scales, chromatic or otherwise, so there's no correspondence to 12 tones, i use parts of speech, alphabetization, and lots of random sampling to generate the 104 word rows that make up the "12-tone matrix" that forms the collection of raw material i use to cutup, revise and edit each "12-tone" poem. here are a couple of early examples: ==================================================================== horrible vain and logical horrible vain and logical grandmother issues fantastic misery in secret temple she wants her quiet fighting magnets to join the healing military testing necessary rice provided that meaningful miserable grandmother goes everywhere uptown injecting young technology boy oh boy with super substance plus ================================================================== vehement cheers vehement cheers vault quartz bravo helen! hot dulcimer wisecrack, whoop-de-doo quantum redesign hook. join the vortex mission, yoga incandescence, cluster vast northward query after bitter parametric accident. elixir jazz leads youngest carotene group so vaguely marvelous tendril kills everyone alongside pressroom
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