As a 2018 Resident Artist at CultureHub, Maxwell Neely-Cohen created a prototype for a space that would visually respond to the live reading of poetry and prose. The development team used Google Cloud’s speech-to-text API, Python, Max/MSP, and the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon to get a basic version working in four days in June, which was then tested by an amazing assortment of poets, writers, and editors.

Maxwell Neely-Cohen brings the latest iteration of this software to Mission Creek, where poets of all stripes will explore the possibilities of technology and poetry in a must-see reading.

Read To Me – Meghann Plunkett from Maxwell Neely-Cohen on Vimeo.