Music: Bertram Turetzky, David Borgo, and Ryoko Goguen, multimedia performance at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, La Jolla, California, 2005.
A griot is a revered storyteller in many parts of the African Diaspora. "The Griot Sings Haibun,"is an improvised performance of music, poetry, image, and computation. Live musicians fuel collective improvisation with Harell's GRIOT, a cybernetic system on which a human "plays" an ever-changing polypoem, an interactive multimedia polymorphic narrative poem. The core of GRIOT is the novel Alloy algorithm to generate new concepts and metaphors by blending, based on recent research in cognitive linguistics, computer science, and semiotics.
