Loss Pequeno Glazier (p.162) repond a des artistes ou des ecrivains comme Michael Joyce et Eduardo Kac, qui passent a cote d'une specificite de la composition poetique electronique, le premier par privilege exclusif donne au recit hypertexte et a des creations non executables sur le reseau (il publie ses oeuvres sous la forme de livres electroniques chez eastgate sous le slogan "serious hypertext"), le deuxieme en se consacrant a un usage davantage "multimediatique" qui ne recherche pas (tout en deplorant son absence) une definition specifique de la "poesie electronique". Glazier semble repondre a ca par une liste de programmes/d'outils pour faire de la poesie, en renvoyant a www.burningpress.com/toolbox

la page originale (avec pour chaque programme un telechargement disponible) n'a plus l'air d'exister, je copie donc ici, avec les liens s'ils fonctionnent encore. j'ai recupere ceci (par precaution, si Google vide son cache!) a partir du cache de Google.


TextWorx Toolshed...

A collections of programs and resources for the disassembly, reorganization, and reassembly of language... hopefully useful for writers and experimentalists who want to jumpstart their creativity, or otherwise wreck havoc upon an unsuspecting text.
I got many of these programs originally from Ficus Strangelensis; some of them subsequently appeared at the Computer Generated Writing site [lien casse] (which is sometimes unavailable lately, and is in need of updating--that's why I'm putting this up). A couple of other leads came from Chris Reiner's Witz site [lien casse], from Ron Starr's Poetry Tools page, and from searching the InfoMac HyperArchives.

Most of these are for Mac, but there are a few Dos/Windows programs, too. I'll be working on adding a section of Web-based resources, eventually. Any suggestions, additions or corrections to this collection are welcome: contact luigi before sending anything.



Mac Programs:


ANAGRAMS 1.4 This program makes it fun and easy to find interesting anagrams. If you've tried Ars Magna or Karma Manager then we think you'll find Anagrams a pleasant alternative.  
 
CHAOS POETRY GENERATOR is a HyperCard based writing tool to help writers break through writers block. Full documentation is included within the stack, but a simple explanation is that ChaosPoetry Generator is a random string generator wherein you control the strings.    

CHEF, a program to twist text into something similar to the gibberish uttered by the Swedish chef on the Muppets.    

DECIDE is a Creative Writing Aid based on an Idea in Keith Johnstone's groovy book "Impro". Basically, you build a story by asking simple questions that can be answered with a "yes" or "no". Decider will make choices for you based on your questions.    

DECONSTRUCTOR, a program to generate new text probabilistically based on an input text.    

ELECTRIC POET can use an ordinary text file as a mould for creating its own litterary works. This works best with abstract poetry where it's sometimes hard to tell real from bogus.    

FOGGY, a Hypercard stack based on a DOS program that will generate sentences based on fixed phrases and variable syntax. The subject of the sentences include Chomskyan grammar, Software Development and Folklore Research.    

HAIKUMASTER, a Hypercard stack to generate Haiku    

IMAGINAME 1.0.1 - A small app which creates 'names' randomly.    

 NEW! JANUSNODE 1.08 - "A virtual robot built to fulfill a single function: to manufacture textual possibility that material entities such as yourself endow with value. It can perform that single task with extreme dedication, high reliability, in parallel, and at very low cost." Much revised reincarnation of McPoet [archived at MIT's InfoMac library: search there if our link is not the latest version.] voir la

KANT GENERATOR Pro 1.3.1 generates endless amounts of pseudo-Kantian gibberish based on the vocabulary and sentence structure of Immanual Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." You can also create your own generation modules to generate anything you like.    

MacPROSE, from Charles O. Hartman: http://camel.conncoll.edu/ccother/cohar/programs/index.html [lien casse]    

MacTRAVESTY is a small program that analyses a text file and lists all the character groups contained in the text. A new pseudorandom text based on the language specific character frequencies can then be generated.    

MAKE SOME POEMS generates poems by choosing at random from among words which you supply to it and then slotting those words into a poem structure.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gparashis/makesomepoems.html [lien casse]   

MBA PHRASE GENERATOR a simple phrase generator intended to produce Wall Street obfuscated catchphrases.    

McPOET is a set of tools for text generation and text morphing: that is, tools for writing computer-generated and computer-assisted poetry. It uses its own simple language to allow the text-generation rules to be completely user-configurable. [Replaced by Janus[lien casse], 2/13/2000]    

MERZPOETRY a Hypercard stack capable of generating poems and pictures according to Merz' DaDa rules.    

NEOLOGISMS DICTIONARY, a dictionary of human-generated neologisms (i.e. new words constructed by combining suffixes and prefixes in a new manner.)    

PATALITERATOR, a Hypercard stack for randomly generating neologisms, not just based on prefixes and suffixes but also on syllables.    

ROBO RITER, an automatic poetry-writing machine. Robo Riter creates profound and deeply moving Ballads, French Lais, Haiku, and Limericks--at the push of a button! Version 3.1 includes a revised interface, expanded word lists and improved algorithms, for the finest in automated poesy.
Download from http://home.earthlink.net/~rocketriter/DownLoads/roboriter.hqx [lien casse]
  
TAFKAPULATOR changes plain text files to Prince-speak...or rather, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince (TAFKAP)-speak. "To you" becomes "2 U"; "Someone to be my authority" will be Some1 2 B my authoriT; "That" will be th@, and so on.    

TEXTMANGLER, a program for mangling texts based on Markov chains working on words.    

TRAKL'BIGI--Simulates the overly vivid poetry of Georg Trakl.
Download from http://www.matterform.com/software/free_software.html [lien casse]

Dos Programs:


BABBLE, a babble generator with a million options. In additions to generating random texts according to analyzed text files, it can apply "filters" such as dyslexia, stuttering, code etc., modifying the output further. 
  
COGNATE, a linguistic program for analyzing words from different languages and determining if they are likely to be derived from each other.    

RAY KURZWEIL'S CYBERNETIC POET (RKCP) is a computer generated poetry system using sophisticated language modeling techniques to automatically generate completely original poetry based on poems that RKCP has "read."
Download from the Kurzwiel site: http://www.kurzweiltech.com/rkcp.htm [lien casse]

DIASTEXT: Charles O. Hartman's original DIASTEXT program, inspired by a method invented by Jackson Mac Low for The Virgina Woolf Poems (Burning Deck Press). C source and DOS executable.    

DIASTIC MACRO FOR MSWord: Taylor Brady has written a Word 97 for Windows macro that automates one of Jackson Mac Low's diastic text-selection procedures. Check out the ReadMe [lien casse] file for details    

DADA POEM GENERATOR, a generator of nonsensical poems based on the traditional approach of looking up dictionaries and sentence syntax definitions.    

MARK V. CHANEY 1.0, a probabilistic text generator based on Markov chains.    

RANDOM VERSE LAB-- for 32Bit Win95/NT (also available in a 16bit Win3. version)    


more to come...


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