Hello dear streamer team,

I'm Esther Salmona, one of the first students of Locus Sonus.

During Locus Sonus, I focused on a theorical approach and a poetical work : as soon as the first stream was born, i began writing on it and tried to describe it. The more I wrote, the more the text became a variation between sounds and words, in a form of synesthesia. This way of writing from sounds finds an origin in the World Soundscape Project, dating back to 1975 : European Sounds Diary (http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.htmlhttp://www.sfu.ca/%7Etruax/wsp.html ).

The first name of my project was "The diary of streams", and it has now became a blog, carpophores : an irregular diary of writings from listenings. You can read carpophores here : http://carpophores.blogspot.com. Sorry it's in french, maybe in english later.

What nature is this variation between sounds and words? Is it a loss or a benefit, or altogether another dimension? I need less technology for writing than is necessary for listening. What kind of questions this sort of LoFi ask? This is what I experiment with carpophores.

I am taking part next year to an international contest of poetry : Poésie en Val-de-Marne (http://www.biennaledespoetes.fr/). I will present carpophores, so i will write with your sounds, your installation, your soundscape.

The continuation of this work of course, depends on the regular presence of your streams so I wanted to let you know that I am very gratefull when they are available as much as possible.

I take advantage of this moment of technical upgrade to contact you.

Thanks for your participation, Esther