Window

"Katharine Norman is a composer, writer, sound artist and independent scholar who is interested in listening, place and everyday experience." "This multimedia poem is a profound meditation on place. Based on photographs and sound recordings taken from the same window over the course of a year, Window seeks to capture a sense of space for readers to enter. Norman directly credits John Cage as an inspiration for this piece—a musician interested in exploring the potential of ambient sound, as he did with his (in)famous work 4'33'. Norman creates minimalist interfaces so that the reader can visually and aurally explore the space over time while also remixing them with custom soundscapes. The code for this poem is worth looking at and it doesn't take a programmer to appreciate how its design elegance extends to its source code. Window was the winner of the 2012 New Media Writing Prize." -- From Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3