Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology

Iyla Annotates Bernstein's "1-100"

This is Charles Bernstein's performance of the numbers "1-100."

00:00 / 00:00

Annotations

00:00 - 00:02

Microphone is brushed

Technical Sounds

00:00 - 00:04

Lively music and faint, indistinct talking in the background

Ambient Noise
Speech

00:04 - 00:07

Crashing sounds between numbers

Ambient Noise

00:04 - 00:12

Pitch, amplitude, and tempo steadily increase

Amplitude
Pitch
Tempo

00:04 - 00:13

Echoes following numbers

Technical Sounds

00:12 - 00:13

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

00:13 - 00:16

Certain, unquestioning tone

Pitch

00:13 - 00:25

Slow pace of voicing, background music

Duration
Ambient Noise

00:15 - 00:16

Voices in the background grow clearer but still indistinct

Speech

00:17 - 00:25

Lilting tone, even pacing

Pitch
Duration
Meter

00:26 - 00:27

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

00:27 - 00:30

Sudden increase in volume, enthusiasm

Amplitude

00:30 - 00:31

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

00:31 - 00:35

Progresses from slow to fast

Duration

00:35 - 00:36

Increase in volume

Amplitude

00:36 - 00:37

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

00:38 - 00:40

Elongation of pronunciation

Duration

00:41 - 00:41

Increase in volume, conveying finality

Amplitude

00:41 - 00:43

Laughter in the background

Speech

00:43 - 00:46

Slow, even speech

Meter

00:44 - 00:45

Voices in the background

Speech

00:46 - 00:48

Sudden increase in speed

Duration

00:48 - 00:49

Elongation of pronunciation

Duration

00:50 - 00:52

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

00:52 - 00:58

Sing-song voice

Tempo
Pitch

00:57 - 00:58

One louder voice in the background

Speech

00:58 - 01:00

Sudden increase in speed and volume

Tempo
Amplitude

01:00 - 01:01

Pause, voices in the background

Caesura
Speech

01:02 - 01:04

Pause, background music

Caesura
Ambient Noise

01:03 - 01:03

Bumps the microphone

Technical Sounds

01:04 - 01:05

Elongation of pronunciation

Duration

01:05 - 01:06

Pause

Caesura

01:05 - 01:10

Background music

Ambient Noise

01:06 - 01:07

Resigned, low tone

Pitch

01:08 - 01:14

Slow pace, bored tone, long pauses

Duration
Pitch
Caesura

01:16 - 01:30

Intense tone, deep bouncing feedback

Pitch
Technical Sounds

01:24 - 01:25

Background voices

Speech

01:30 - 01:44

Increase in intensity of pitch and volume

Pitch
Amplitude

01:33 - 01:45

Scratchy interference

Technical Sounds

01:39 - 01:40

Pause

Caesura

01:42 - 01:43

Pause

Caesura

01:43 - 01:44

Elongation of pronunciation

Duration

01:44 - 01:45

Pause

Caesura

01:45 - 02:14

Slow pace, increase in intensity of volume, more intereference

Duration
Amplitude
Technical Sounds

02:10 - 02:12

Pause

Caesura

02:14 - 02:36

Straining voice, higher volume, even more interference

Amplitude
Technical Sounds

02:30 - 02:36

Elongation of pronunciation

Duration

02:37 - 03:12

Increase in volume, elongation of pronunciation, major interference

Amplitude
Duration
Technical Sounds

02:40 - 03:14

Large inhalations between numbers

Meter

03:05 - 03:12

Dramatic elongation of pronunciation

Duration

03:14 - 03:15

Moderate tone, conversational pitch

Amplitude
Pitch

Bernstein, Charles. “1-100.” (1969, remastered 2009) 3:16

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