CAConrad's FILM & MP3

SPEAKER SPEAKER Podcast

Interviewed by Gentian Meikleham
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At KARMA Galllery

Don Yorty recorded me performing at artist Jason Dodge's opening.
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Sandra and Ben Doller invited poets to film ourselves while reading our assigned pages.
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I filmed myself reading at the Mississippi River which is located at the heart of the nation.
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Poets & Writers, October 2018

For the interview on Ritual, please go to THIS LINK

POETRY Foundation Podcast, October 2018

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MANY THANKS to Rachel James,

Curtis Fox, Alex Schmidt, and to

everyone at the Poetry Foundation

A new film by Beatrice Gibson

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Interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg on Rituals

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Many thanks to everyone at

Louisiana Art Museum in

beautiful Denmark

ON THE MOON from the Louisiana Channel

from the Louisiana Museum in Denmark

I was interviewed about our planet's moon

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NAROPA Podcast, 2018

David DeVine interviewed me about ritual and creativity.

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Photo portrait of me by B.A. Van Sise -- April, 2018

BuzzFeed published 12 of Van Sise's poet portraits

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COMMONPLACE PODCAST -- April, 2018

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Many thanks to Rachel Zucker

KMRD Radio in Madrid, New Mexico (April 21, 2018)

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KMRD 96.9 FM Madrid, New Mexico

Bett Williams's radio show Planet Juniper on KMDR FM in Madrid, New Mexico. Guest CAConrad reads work from his new book While Standing in Line for Death and favorite poems by the following poets: Tommy Pico, Truck Darling, Nat Raha, Sawako Nakayasu, Magdalena Zurawski, Joseph Ceravolo, Rod Taylor, Dawn Lundy Martin, Cedar Sigo, Lily Hoang, Ocean Vuong. There is also a mix of music between each poem, all songs and artists are acknowledged after each song.

for event at Baldersgade 70, 2200 København

MANY THANKS TO my friends Kazim Ali and Marco Seiryu Wilkinson

for letting me make this little film in their beautiful house

in Oberlin, Ohio (with their cat, the goddess Minerva!)

THIS VIDEO IS FOR THE MARCH 2, 2018
BOOK PARTY FOR THE DANISH TRANSLATION
OF The Book of Frank (OVO BOOKS)
translated by Line Kallmayer

reading from The Book of Frank from CA Conrad on Vimeo.

My new book is read from and discussed in this podcast.
Many thanks to Susan Briante, Roberto Tejada and Tucson Poetry Center

CRYSTAL GRID by CAConrad from CA Conrad on Vimeo.

Journal of Cultural Analytics on 100 Poet Voices

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10) Pitch Acceleration, or acceleration of f0 in octaves per second squared. Acceleration is the rate of change of pitch velocity, that is how rapidly the changes in pitch change, which we perceive as the lilt of a voice. Again, while we calculate the rate of change in speed with attention to direction—that is, whether pitch change is typically curving upward or curving downward —we compare pitch acceleration among speakers without regard to direction. This is also a very useful measure for expressivity. For this measure, Louise Glück (.54 octaves) and Dean Young (1.18 octaves) use the slowest pitch acceleration, while Wanda Coleman (2.28 octaves) and CA Conrad (2.18 octaves) use the fastest.

11) Pitch Entropy, or entropy for f0, indicating the predictability of pitch patterns. Entropy is an information theoretic measure of predictability (or strictly speaking, its opposite - unpredictability or disorder). Mathematically, if P(f) is the probability that a given talker uses a particular pitch frequency f, then entropy is given by the negative of the sum of all pitch probabilities times the log (base 2) of those pitch probabilities -��'P(f)*log2P(f). In this case, entropy quantifies how uniformly a speaker uses all possible pitches within +/-1 octave of their mean—that is, how unpredictable the pitch is. Staying narrowly close to the mean most of the time (even with high f0speed) gives low entropy (highly predictable). Using all pitches with equal probability gives high entropy (very unpredictable). For this measure, Claudia Rankine (2.36) and Jeffrey Yang (2.35) exhibit the lowest pitch entropy, while Wanda Coleman (4.25) and CA Conrad (4.09) exhibit the highest pitch entropy.

12) Dynamism. This is a composite measure, multiplying average pitch speed by average pitch entropy, and adding the average of syllabic and phrasal rhythmic complexity, with the terms weighted to have equal influence (dynamism = (abs(f0speed) * f0entropy) + (complexitySyllables+complexityPhrases)*.2195. This is a measure-in-progress, an attempt to put on a number on how predictable or repetitive a speaker's pitch, or intonation, and rhythmic patterns are. For this measure, Louise Glück (4.6) and Allen Ginsberg (5.35) exhibit the lowest dynamism, while Wanda Coleman (12.69) and CA Conrad (10.31) exhibit the highest. Judging tentatively from our Conversational-Dramatic example, Frank Bidart (9.39), a relatively high value for Dynamism may also be associated with a Dramatic style.

The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films, 2016)
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