through this project, ("a lyrical anthology...") i sought to find a new method for analyzing gertrude stein's tender buttons by charting her syntactical structures. this book is a musical score of 10 poems, generated through the intentional derailment of the flow of her text. the melodic nature of her poetry is revealed through her refrain-like repetition of sentence structures, both inside single poems and across all of her text. acting towards the text as a conductor might the orchestra, i chose to call out hierarchically words and phrases from within the pieces that, when read across the duration of the book, begin to construct their own poem. it was my intention that the experience of retrieving the book be a reference to old fashioned (victorian) music boxes, from which a rudimentary instrument could bring out a beautiful tune. ideally, when presented with the box-experience and the typographic compositions in conjunction, the reader will be unable to read the text without assigning some semblance of pitch to each word, given their height on the page. in this music box, the only limit of the rudimentary instrument is our own imagination.
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