Chambersonic

Auteur

Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet-artist, sound performer, and translator interested in polyphonic poetics, phonotophes (intermediary spaces between words, sounds, and images), and states of listening. Distinctions include the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. She has been a writer-in-residence at Green College, UBC, and the University of Calgary and an artist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University and OBORO, among others. See oanalab.com.

Eight Track
Finalist 2020 The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Finalist 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry

Wigrum
Runner-up 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada
Winner 2012 Grafika Grand Prize Winner (Typography)

Texte du rabat

Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber. This collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings comes alive with documents, rehearsals, and reverberations, all populated by an ensemble of players, instruments, and materials that make sound together. A conductor fades in and out; the audience acts as choreographer; agencies, noises, and situations test their volumes and energies - until voices morph into rebellious notation, signalling the near-silenced, the dissonant, and the ignored.