VIP: an archive for the voices of Italian poetry

Abstract

Reading is one of the most interesting aspects to observe the sound dimension of poetry. For this purpose, the support of poetry vocal archives is fundamental. After a review of the major international databases, together with the most significant related studies, this article aims to present Voices of Italian Poets, a research project dedicated to the study about the voice in Italian poetry reading and an Italian national sound archive, available on the website of the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics “Arturo Genre” of the University of Turin. VIP constitutes a platform of interpretations by Italian living and Twentieth century’s poets, together with actors, accompanied by phonetic annotations, analysis and comparisons. In addition to the possible methods of consultation, in this work we will present the perspec-tives that this research proposes and opens.