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M. D. Friedman

M. D. Friedman is a poet, teacher, musician, photographer, digital artist and web master from Lafayette, Colorado where he resides with his wife, Mariamne Engle Friedman. He currently teaches at Catalyst High School, an amazing independent high school in Lafayette. His fourth book of poetry, Where We Reach, combines his poetry with his original photographs and digital art. M. D.'s new Poetry Blog features a new orignal poem every week.

Well, what does it look to to combine poetry, music, digital art & photograhy with what the internet animation makes possible. Check out M. D.'s new "digital poems," and join us in a new community of digital dissenters at www.digitaldada.org.

Digital Poetry by M. D. Friedman,  A New Genre of Poetics

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“The Word" (2007) is the first digital poem  I ever created.   It's the dada fusion of all my creative pursuits at once.  It represents a new genre of poetics, fusing my experimental sound art, digital art, photography and animation with original spoken word poetry. This piece deals in a humorous way with the difficulty of expressing transformational experience in written language.

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"Forever Trespass” (2007) is a digital poem exploring the question, "Does the poem own the poet or the poet own poem?" The sound art for this piece was constructed from the 2D (2 directional) poem, "Forever Trespass". The "normal" voice is reading the poem vertically (down the columns) and the "harmonized" voice is reading the same poem horizontally (across the rows). The video was made by animating my photographs and digital art and integrating it with the original sound art.

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Original poetry, sound art, visual art, photography, and animation by M. D. Friedman highlight this ground breaking video short. This work showcases a growing mastery of M. D.'s combined talents to produce experimental, experiential, electronic literature fusing several multimedia elements into a new genre of poetics. Featuring state of the art 3D animation, "Know Where to Go Crazy" (2009) is a two voice poem with the second voice heard animated into the viewer's head.

If like this kind of thing, you may want to go to I-Tunes or to M. D.'s Lulu Store Front to download it for your i-Pod or Windows-based video player.

Or you may just want to enjoy some of his other recorded poetic works . See http://www.reverbnation.com/mdfriedman to sign up on M. D.'s email list, to download many of the audio files, view videos, the text or other information related to these tracks.

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His art represents an evolution from capturing (through photography) the beautiful and peculiar in our world to expressing (through the digital manipulation) the beautiful and peculiar within oneself. The resulting works are sometimes startling, sometimes subtly intriguing, but all map the personal journey of the artist from photographer to poetographer, from collector to creator and from seeing to being. It is the artist's hope that the joy and self-discovery intrinsic to this work will be contagious to the viewer.


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M. D. Friedman is the founder of the Internet Poets' Cooperative website (www.poetscoop.org) which features over 20 free volumes of e-books from poets around the world and over 600 free audio recordings of dozens of Colorado poets reading their own work at www.mp3poetry.com.

His newest web site, http://www.digitaldada.org, represents an effort to explore the transformational impact of digital creation on common culture.

His personal web site, http://www.mdfriedman.com offers access to all of M. D. Friedman's creative ventures.

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Yes, M. D. Friedman is also the Colorado harmonica legend known as the Mad Dog (www.maddogharp.com). Mad Dog has been playing solo and in bands for over 40 years. Renown for his raucous leads, funky rhythms, and raw and soulful blues, Mad Dog continues to expand his stylistic repertoire with his band Papa Juke (www.papajuke.com). Also tons of tunes & a variety of videos are availble for your free downloading pleasure at Mad Dog's Media Page.

Check out Mad Dog's online collaborations!