Dada de Dada

Articulate Shark ✍

dada · October 8, 2024November 3, 2024

AI muses and articulate sharks! There are many articulate sharks swimming in the world’s political seas. I leave it to the reader to allocate this verse to their chosen hero or villain.

Struggle in the Labyrinth ✍

dada · October 8, 2024October 15, 2024

An AI poetry experiment. Struggle in the Labyrinth is a poem about the yin and yang influences of our emotions and our intellect upon the decisions we all make throughout our lives. But what part did AI play in the creative process?

Speaking the Music (part three)✍

dada · January 2, 2023October 14, 2024

Aspiring to Authentic Authenticity. This is the third and final part of the article in which I explore examples where the voice is employed in the musical mix more as narrator or commentator than a singer. All of the examples in part one and part two of this article would undoubtedly claim to be authentic. …

Speaking the Music (part two) ♬✍

dada · January 2, 2023October 14, 2024

Talking Dub & Hip Hop. This is part two of a three part article exploring examples where the voice is employed in the musical mix more as narrator or commentator than a singer. Part one ‘Talking in Style‘ illustrated how words created in one context and for another purpose could find new life as part …

Speaking the Music (part one) ♬✍

dada · January 1, 2023October 14, 2024

Talking with Style. I am interested in media forms in which the spoken word, soundscapes, and music intersect. So this three part article will explore examples where the voice is employed in the musical mix more as narrator or commentator than a singer. Consider this piece ‘In Smiling in Slow Motion‘. I heard it first …

Truth Dies ♬🎬✍

dada · December 29, 2022October 14, 2024

Because my interest is in the various ways the spoken word can be integrated into different media and musical forms I like to experiment with different genres. One of my experiments in dub poetry has the title ‘Truth Dies‘ and the result can be found below. Dub poetry is all about social commentary and I …

The Beast of Expectation 🎬🔊✍

dada · July 23, 2022October 15, 2024

Dada de Dada aims to be an equal opportunities satirist. The only bias being against fundamentalist ideologues of whatever persuasion. For in the certainties, myths and stories they sell, they so often stoke the fires of discontent and disunity and focus a lens on ‘the other’ as the cause of all problems. There are always …

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra 💬

dada · July 18, 2022October 15, 2024

In a previous post Radio 3: Beyond Classical I spotlighted the BBC Radio 3 programme Night Tracks which is co-presented by the composer, artists, and musician Hannah Peel whose many accolades include the soundtrack to the 2019 HBO documentary Game of Thrones: the Last Watch (available on SoundCloud). The focus here, however, is her In the Studio …

Maths Lesson 🔊✍

dada · July 15, 2022October 15, 2024

Maths Lesson is another dark tale of social history in verse form so count this as a trigger warning. It should be read or listened to in conjunction with my other verse on the theme of learning and punishment Poor Johnny of Seann Cathair. Verse Looked out of the high window Outside the rain poured down …

Poor Johnny of Seann Cathair 🔊✍

dada · July 14, 2022October 15, 2024

Poetic licence? No. Hyperbole? No. In modern vernacular what follows is a trigger warning. This is not a verse for the faint hearted or for advocates of a return to some mythological idealised past which ‘never did them any harm’. It conveys the imagery of the state-sanctioned normality of what was an everyday occurence. The …