“Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs” was a breath of fresh air to me amidst so many hypertexts that stretch your mind and vision to the peripheral. It was a relief to find that I was more in control of this hypertext than any of the others we have recently done. It could hardly be considered overwhelming in the face of Young-Hae Chang’s fast-paced works that leave me feeling as stressed as finding out all my financial aid had been revoked or something. The hypertext games just had so many other distracting features I found it difficult\u00a0 to get past the first level without getting stuck in my own frustration about the “deeper” meaning of the task at hand.<\/p>\n
The foreward of “Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs” is very informative and you can see right away that there was a lot of thought, consideration, and research involved in the creation of this hypertext. I like that this explanation is given and we are not left to fend for ourselves as is the norm with Nelson. I like that this hypertext is not meant to confuse you, but instead wants you to appreciate the art and techniques themselves. The texts that fly across the page correlate with the bird sounds you chose to play. It is perhaps a much more soothing form of Young-Hae Chang’s use of music and pace of words. But this is instead formatted to move across and around the screen in a more artistic, peaceful, and correlating way. The sounds and texts rely on each other, the bird sounds being altered as the text bumps along with other bird sound text. You can see how some bird calls remain in form, only being altered by the inclination of sound within its fixed form, while others flow from chaos to be merged together, and even others fall a part with the clickclucking of sound. It is interactive in that you get to chose which bird songs are being sung, how many are sung and overlapped at once, and when and if you want certain songs to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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