noth'rs

"This version of 'noth'rs' is a severely cut-back extract from the first published rendition of the piece as it appeared on the CD ROM which accompanies the current issue of Performance Research ('On Line', Performance Research, Volume 4, Number 2 (Summer 1999), edited by Ric Allsopp & Scott deLahunta).

'noth'rs' is very much a work-in-progress. Since many of its concerns are formal and engaged with the theory-in-practice of its media, technical and paratextual aspects of its publication are foregrounded, and these require further development. Over the web, platform-independent speech synthesis is not readily available, so the looping of hefty sound files (generated by a speech synthesizer) may cause some readers problems; the way Java runs under many browsers is still not stable or entirely predictable; transitions between the transliteral phases of the piece are not precisely as I would like them; and in a subsequent version, I would arrange the assignments of keys for navigation differently. Nonetheless, the overall literal and literary structure of the work is accessible in this form. From November 1999, a link to a developing site of noth'rs can be found through my recommended links." -- "Introduction"