This is the first time I have heard a mashup between Shane Koyczan and a musical artist. I enjoyed it very much. The visual of Shane Koyczan's mother trying to cut her legs off and the blood leaking onto white floors, floors of innocent. Dan Mangan introduction was soothing, enjoyed his voice and after Shane Koyczan had finished and began singing again how he sang about the person passing away. I feel that Shane Koyczan is in pain as his voice struggles over certain words and I feel that Dan Mangan is helping him through this. I like that the singing parts relate to the readings, I originally thought it would be a little scattered, but it's not at all they both fit perfectly with one another. I began crying at the end of it because everyone wants the person who is passing away to stay. I feel that the song wouldn't work without the poem and the poem wouldn't work without the song. Trying to move on from this piece after this is going to rough, I feel like I am mourning with both of them, as if I knew Shane Koycan's mother and I need to mourn her too.
Words are powerful when written down, but even more so when they are spoken. Shane Koyczan, a native Canadian, is a spoken word poet. I will share with you his poems and what I take from them. Spoken word has been around for many centuries and usually focuses on the words themselves and the way they sound, the gestures that a person uses with the words, and facial expressions. It brings feelings back to words in a society where technology has muted them.
Monday, October 14, 2013
"Write Me a Bedroom Where Cures Make Love to Our Cancers"
This is the first time I have heard a mashup between Shane Koyczan and a musical artist. I enjoyed it very much. The visual of Shane Koyczan's mother trying to cut her legs off and the blood leaking onto white floors, floors of innocent. Dan Mangan introduction was soothing, enjoyed his voice and after Shane Koyczan had finished and began singing again how he sang about the person passing away. I feel that Shane Koyczan is in pain as his voice struggles over certain words and I feel that Dan Mangan is helping him through this. I like that the singing parts relate to the readings, I originally thought it would be a little scattered, but it's not at all they both fit perfectly with one another. I began crying at the end of it because everyone wants the person who is passing away to stay. I feel that the song wouldn't work without the poem and the poem wouldn't work without the song. Trying to move on from this piece after this is going to rough, I feel like I am mourning with both of them, as if I knew Shane Koycan's mother and I need to mourn her too.
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