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Surprise! It’s A Live Feed

For the second deadly bout of London Poetry Systems we up-stepped the video trickery.

To create a mirror on the night, we concealed a camera on stage.

On cue - we pulled the trigger on the audience, and Yo Zushi, our sound man, became the live feed’s accidental star.

See what you make of Henry Stead performing ‘Copy Cat’…

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All 3 from Henry

The three poems Henry Stead performed at the launch night for London Poetry Systems.

In order, they are:

- The Love of Phlebas

- A Visionary’s Visionary Vision

- An Ancient Process

Thanks to Kaara for her design work on Phlebas. All three visual scores were outputted through an Edirol V4 mixer, performed with motion dive .tokyo, and pre-produced in Adobe Premier and Adobe After Effects.

You can watch all of the poets on our Vimeo group site.

Live at the FleaPit Cafe

Videos from last month’s London Poetry Systems launch night at the FleaPit are now online.

Here’s Henry Stead performing ‘A Visionary’s Visionary Vision’.

We spent a few weeks working together on each of his poems, and this live audiovisual performance is the product of those experiments.