living in a big world
a Janet Kuypers 07/17/07 performance art show
On July 17, 2007 (07/17/07), Janet Kuypers performed the show “Living in a Big World” at The Cafe (5115 North Lincoln Avenue - just south of Foster - in Chicago). Unlike past shows, this show contained not only poetry, conversational stories and continuously running artwork from around the globe, but also music from a wide variety of musicians.
Charlie Newman, host of a weekly open mic at the Cafe, and a monthly 4-poet feature at DvA art Gallery, even commented on this show: “poet show-stopper par excellence...JANET KUYPERS, with a special set to go along with her special poetry!”... Well, that “special set” is a 60" wide “drawing” of a large chair she actually sits in, along with a projected “drawing” of a large TV showing artwork from around the world.
Musicians and music with work from past CDs and projects will be included in this show, including The Bastard Trio (with music from their CD Survival of the Fist), material from the CD Seeing Things Differently, Pointless Orchestra, with music from Janet Kuypers’ Rough Mixes CD (with Mike Hovancsek playing the modified piano), music and altered effects from Order From Chaos’ CD The Entropy Project, music from 5D/5D’s CD Tick Tock, music from The DMJ Art Connection, music with the guitarist from the Second Axing (playing an original song from Mom’s Favorite Vase), and music from Rose E. Grier’s son Ben Grier. Music by elektroNarkoz (from Taking Out The Brain), music from Lem Roby (from the Cafe 04/26/05 during The Writing of my Life), music by Mark Clayton Graham (from Tribal Scream), and music from Square Waves will also be used during narratives in this show, as well as original background music from the 02/03/04 performance art show Dreams in the end of the live show.
Below you will find video displays as well as web pages of the projected art from this show, and even two different video camera views of each individual piece in this show. You can also check out audio tracks of the studio versions of pieces form this show, and live mp3 files, live Macintosh AIF files, live Linux AU files, and even live WAV files of the pieces from this live performance.
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the full show |
 
Watch the full Internet Archive video of the show “Living in a Big World” (26:13)
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Watch the full YouTube video of the show “Living in a Big World” (26:13)
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Watch the full Internet Archive video of the show “Living in a Big World” (26:14)
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Watch the full YouTube video of the show “Living in a Big World” (26:14)
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You can also see any YouTube video clips on emule.com.
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Following are individual studio clips and writings from this performance.
original music from
Taking out the Brain
with music by elektroNarkoz
poems/2005/communication05.htm" target="new">The original writing
of parts of “Communication ‘05”
(written in 1998)
The original writing
(of the full piece, written in 2007)
Around the World,
& sweet home Chicago
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See YouTube video
(2:44)
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See YouTube video
(2:45)
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in this live performance,
the music morphed from previous
Square Waves music to
background music from the show
Dreams, 02/03/04 |
The original writing
(written in 2007) |
chapbook link: 
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Projected artwork during this show included:
the title TV image
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We have found that quicktime can view these basic and free movies, and you can get quicktime for free off of the Internet.
You can also download Media Player, for Macintosh or for Windows to see some video files.
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- Windows Media Player
Natively plays basic audio(.au), .mid, and .wav. In some cases, installation of the
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- Vivo Player
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(6:09)
See the above YouTube video from camera #2 on
See the above YouTube video from camera #1 at the encyclopedia”
studio release (full poem, 8:28)