Oni Buchanan and Jon Woodward: "Uncanny Valley"
The piano performance of Oni Buchanan joins and reflects the spoken text of the poem “Uncanny Valley” as performed by its author, poet Jon Woodward. This program investigates whether or not “semantic satiation”—whereby a single word loses all apparent meaning and identity when repeated for a short duration—is possible with phrases, sentences, pairs of verse lines, or musical forms.
