There's a Christian Marclay Festival in Whiteny Museum of American Art, and it's really interesting to see some musician performing "Manga scroll" tonight. Actually this kind of work is called "Sound Poem", that's what my friend Jonathan told me, and basicly a musician will perform with his or her own voice while reading a scroll of words. In fact, while the musician is performing, we can't see the scroll very clearly, and it looks like she's getting crazy yelling some unknown words. That's how I felt when I first stepped into the exhibition hall.
This is how it works. Christian Marclay created Manga Scroll by cutting and collaging onomatopoeias (words that imitate the sounds they describe) pulled from Manga comics originally published in Japan and translated for U.S. audiences. You can see the image above. Marclay then digitally manipulated the hundreds of sound words torn from their pop-cultural context (FWUP! CREEAK! SKRRR!) and printed them on a sixty-foot rice paper scroll in order to create the composition meant to be interpreted by voice.With the same scroll, different musicians may interprete it differently.
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