Rita Bullwinkel's Oral Florist
A Virtual Auditory Experience
Featuring Ottessa Moshfegh, Diane Williams, Benjamin Booker, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Léonie Guyer, Alexandra Kleeman and many others.
On Wednesday, April 21 at 1pm, Bullwinkel will host an afternoon tea panel discussion, via Zoom, with three Oral Florist readers. Listeners can attend the event through a pay-what-you-can ticket purchase, or with the purchase of one of the Oral Florist limited-run objects.
Minnesota Street Project Adjacent is pleased to announce Oral Florist, a creation of MSP's Virtual Resident and acclaimed author, Rita Bullwinkel. Launching Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Oral Florist is a sound library of authors, musicians, and artists reading aloud texts encountered in their daily lives. "Much as it might be exciting to see which seashells a sculptor picks up from a sandy beach," writes Bullwinkel, "Oral Florist is a sample of language found and recorded by people who work closely with words to make art."
The recordings of Oral Florist are noteworthy for both their aesthetic and emotional diversity, as well as the widely varying artistic backgrounds, and the generational diversity, of their readers. Diane Williams, the many decades long sovereign of the American literary avant-garde, reads an excerpt from a book she found at a flea market, alongside C Pam Zhang reading a favorite post from Reddit. Zhang's acclaimed debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was released just last year.
The Oral Florist recordings can be experienced through an interactive garden where visitors click on a bud to watch a flower bloom as they listen to the recording. The petals of the digital flowers were gathered from local flower shops and wildflower gardens in San Francisco. An algorithm makes the petals bloom randomly, so no two Oral Florist flowers are the same.
For Oral Florist's debut, Bullwinkel will post one new recording a day for 30 days, after which she will continue to update the sound library with new recordings weekly. Listeners can elect to be notified when a new recording is published by subscribing to Oral Florist's podcast at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oralflorist
Authors, musicians, and artists that will be reading for Oral Florist's debut include: Alexandra Kleeman, Benjamin Booker, Brontez Purnell, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Christine Schutt, Deb Olin Unferth, Diane Williams, Dougie Poole, Hilary Leichter, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jesse Ball, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, Léonie Guyer, Lucy Corin, Mary South, Mimi Lok, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Cottrell, Rebekah Bergman, Samantha Hunt, Sarah Gerard, Vi Khi Nao, and Yuri Herrera.
"These recordings are an ode to the joy of being startled by language, of reading something that makes you feel a feeling you weren't expecting, at a time when you were not expecting to feel anything," says Bullwinkel. "These recordings are evidence that, in a life carefully noticed, one might be able to find playfulness and humor and love and beauty and sadness in many places that lie outside the confines of what is typically categorized as 'literature.'"
Image Credit: Photo by Jenna Garrett
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A Virtual Auditory Experience
Featuring Ottessa Moshfegh, Diane Williams, Benjamin Booker, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Léonie Guyer, Alexandra Kleeman and many others.
On Wednesday, April 21 at 1pm, Bullwinkel will host an afternoon tea panel discussion, via Zoom, with three Oral Florist readers. Listeners can attend the event through a pay-what-you-can ticket purchase, or with the purchase of one of the Oral Florist limited-run objects.
Minnesota Street Project Adjacent is pleased to announce Oral Florist, a creation of MSP's Virtual Resident and acclaimed author, Rita Bullwinkel. Launching Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Oral Florist is a sound library of authors, musicians, and artists reading aloud texts encountered in their daily lives. "Much as it might be exciting to see which seashells a sculptor picks up from a sandy beach," writes Bullwinkel, "Oral Florist is a sample of language found and recorded by people who work closely with words to make art."
The recordings of Oral Florist are noteworthy for both their aesthetic and emotional diversity, as well as the widely varying artistic backgrounds, and the generational diversity, of their readers. Diane Williams, the many decades long sovereign of the American literary avant-garde, reads an excerpt from a book she found at a flea market, alongside C Pam Zhang reading a favorite post from Reddit. Zhang's acclaimed debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was released just last year.
The Oral Florist recordings can be experienced through an interactive garden where visitors click on a bud to watch a flower bloom as they listen to the recording. The petals of the digital flowers were gathered from local flower shops and wildflower gardens in San Francisco. An algorithm makes the petals bloom randomly, so no two Oral Florist flowers are the same.
For Oral Florist's debut, Bullwinkel will post one new recording a day for 30 days, after which she will continue to update the sound library with new recordings weekly. Listeners can elect to be notified when a new recording is published by subscribing to Oral Florist's podcast at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oralflorist
Authors, musicians, and artists that will be reading for Oral Florist's debut include: Alexandra Kleeman, Benjamin Booker, Brontez Purnell, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Christine Schutt, Deb Olin Unferth, Diane Williams, Dougie Poole, Hilary Leichter, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jesse Ball, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, Léonie Guyer, Lucy Corin, Mary South, Mimi Lok, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Cottrell, Rebekah Bergman, Samantha Hunt, Sarah Gerard, Vi Khi Nao, and Yuri Herrera.
"These recordings are an ode to the joy of being startled by language, of reading something that makes you feel a feeling you weren't expecting, at a time when you were not expecting to feel anything," says Bullwinkel. "These recordings are evidence that, in a life carefully noticed, one might be able to find playfulness and humor and love and beauty and sadness in many places that lie outside the confines of what is typically categorized as 'literature.'"
Image Credit: Photo by Jenna Garrett
Rita Bullwinkel's Oral Florist
A Virtual Auditory Experience
Featuring Ottessa Moshfegh, Diane Williams, Benjamin Booker, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Léonie Guyer, Alexandra Kleeman and many others.
On Wednesday, April 21 at 1pm, Bullwinkel will host an afternoon tea panel discussion, via Zoom, with three Oral Florist readers. Listeners can attend the event through a pay-what-you-can ticket purchase, or with the purchase of one of the Oral Florist limited-run objects.
Minnesota Street Project Adjacent is pleased to announce Oral Florist, a creation of MSP's Virtual Resident and acclaimed author, Rita Bullwinkel. Launching Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Oral Florist is a sound library of authors, musicians, and artists reading aloud texts encountered in their daily lives. "Much as it might be exciting to see which seashells a sculptor picks up from a sandy beach," writes Bullwinkel, "Oral Florist is a sample of language found and recorded by people who work closely with words to make art."
The recordings of Oral Florist are noteworthy for both their aesthetic and emotional diversity, as well as the widely varying artistic backgrounds, and the generational diversity, of their readers. Diane Williams, the many decades long sovereign of the American literary avant-garde, reads an excerpt from a book she found at a flea market, alongside C Pam Zhang reading a favorite post from Reddit. Zhang's acclaimed debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was released just last year.
The Oral Florist recordings can be experienced through an interactive garden where visitors click on a bud to watch a flower bloom as they listen to the recording. The petals of the digital flowers were gathered from local flower shops and wildflower gardens in San Francisco. An algorithm makes the petals bloom randomly, so no two Oral Florist flowers are the same.
For Oral Florist's debut, Bullwinkel will post one new recording a day for 30 days, after which she will continue to update the sound library with new recordings weekly. Listeners can elect to be notified when a new recording is published by subscribing to Oral Florist's podcast at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oralflorist
Authors, musicians, and artists that will be reading for Oral Florist's debut include: Alexandra Kleeman, Benjamin Booker, Brontez Purnell, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Christine Schutt, Deb Olin Unferth, Diane Williams, Dougie Poole, Hilary Leichter, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jesse Ball, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, Léonie Guyer, Lucy Corin, Mary South, Mimi Lok, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Cottrell, Rebekah Bergman, Samantha Hunt, Sarah Gerard, Vi Khi Nao, and Yuri Herrera.
"These recordings are an ode to the joy of being startled by language, of reading something that makes you feel a feeling you weren't expecting, at a time when you were not expecting to feel anything," says Bullwinkel. "These recordings are evidence that, in a life carefully noticed, one might be able to find playfulness and humor and love and beauty and sadness in many places that lie outside the confines of what is typically categorized as 'literature.'"
Image Credit: Photo by Jenna Garrett
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A Virtual Auditory Experience
Featuring Ottessa Moshfegh, Diane Williams, Benjamin Booker, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Léonie Guyer, Alexandra Kleeman and many others.
On Wednesday, April 21 at 1pm, Bullwinkel will host an afternoon tea panel discussion, via Zoom, with three Oral Florist readers. Listeners can attend the event through a pay-what-you-can ticket purchase, or with the purchase of one of the Oral Florist limited-run objects.
Minnesota Street Project Adjacent is pleased to announce Oral Florist, a creation of MSP's Virtual Resident and acclaimed author, Rita Bullwinkel. Launching Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Oral Florist is a sound library of authors, musicians, and artists reading aloud texts encountered in their daily lives. "Much as it might be exciting to see which seashells a sculptor picks up from a sandy beach," writes Bullwinkel, "Oral Florist is a sample of language found and recorded by people who work closely with words to make art."
The recordings of Oral Florist are noteworthy for both their aesthetic and emotional diversity, as well as the widely varying artistic backgrounds, and the generational diversity, of their readers. Diane Williams, the many decades long sovereign of the American literary avant-garde, reads an excerpt from a book she found at a flea market, alongside C Pam Zhang reading a favorite post from Reddit. Zhang's acclaimed debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was released just last year.
The Oral Florist recordings can be experienced through an interactive garden where visitors click on a bud to watch a flower bloom as they listen to the recording. The petals of the digital flowers were gathered from local flower shops and wildflower gardens in San Francisco. An algorithm makes the petals bloom randomly, so no two Oral Florist flowers are the same.
For Oral Florist's debut, Bullwinkel will post one new recording a day for 30 days, after which she will continue to update the sound library with new recordings weekly. Listeners can elect to be notified when a new recording is published by subscribing to Oral Florist's podcast at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oralflorist
Authors, musicians, and artists that will be reading for Oral Florist's debut include: Alexandra Kleeman, Benjamin Booker, Brontez Purnell, C Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, Christine Schutt, Deb Olin Unferth, Diane Williams, Dougie Poole, Hilary Leichter, Ismail Muhammad, Jennifer S. Cheng, Jesse Ball, Joanna Howard, Joanna Ruocco, Léonie Guyer, Lucy Corin, Mary South, Mimi Lok, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patrick Cottrell, Rebekah Bergman, Samantha Hunt, Sarah Gerard, Vi Khi Nao, and Yuri Herrera.
"These recordings are an ode to the joy of being startled by language, of reading something that makes you feel a feeling you weren't expecting, at a time when you were not expecting to feel anything," says Bullwinkel. "These recordings are evidence that, in a life carefully noticed, one might be able to find playfulness and humor and love and beauty and sadness in many places that lie outside the confines of what is typically categorized as 'literature.'"
Image Credit: Photo by Jenna Garrett
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