ABSTRACT
Electronic Literature is writing that is largely screen-based and engages with new technologies to produce off-the-page work. Electronic Literature is central to this book because it is continuous with more traditional forms of on-the-page literature and yet has the capacity to introduce other media into literary artefacts. Electronic literature can be a form of contemporary experimental intermedia and multimedia work (CEIM), though some forms of it would be words only. This chapter addresses the relationship of words and music in electronic literature and its cultural effects and possibilities. The co-articulation of words and sound is different in electronic literature from audio works because it can involve screened (silent) words as well as spoken words.
