True Protagonists

In his Manifest of Polypoetry, Minarelli asserts,  "Only the development of the new technologies will mark the progress of sound poetry : the electronic media and the computer are and will be the true protagonists."  I am struck mostly by how this utterly removes the poet from being the heroic creator of his own poems.  (And I'm willing to say that some of the works we saw/listened to for this week seemed a little less than heroic, but I've asked my computer and it has said that no, it does not wish to be held accountable.)  It also removes the human agents behind the creation and manipuation of computers and electronic media, which may be even more troubling.

If the the medium is no longer the message, but the messenger, where does that leave the concept of authorship?

There was, in late 1990s Manhattan, a little-known polytonal poet whose nom de plum (is that the right term, if there was never in fact a plum involved at all?) was Yap Yap Motherfucker Shit.  (I Googled her.  She seems to have sunk into such obscurity that nothing came up.)  She performed only improved poems, and her creative process worked thusly:

• Yap Yap was a person with Tourette  Syndrome whose symptoms became more and more pronounced when she was nervous (as when standing in front of a crowd).  So she only composed spontaneous poems that grew out of her nervousness as she stood on stage, waiting for something to come.
• Her poems were a mixture of purely aural exhortations and words that, in other situatoins, signified but as a sympton of her illness, did not.  
• Her performances lasted as long as her tics held out, and then were over.  They were never recorded and, of course, never repeated.
• As I said, she wasn't very good at attracting audiences... she was my neighbor, so I felt obliged to go to at least a few of her shows, which were usually at really sketchy Alphabet City bars and you could tell she'd been booked just because someone had thought it would be funny.  The audience was often boisterously unkind, which increased her nervousness, which in turn increased the duration and vehemence of the tic-speech.  

So, then, looking at Tourette Syndrome as, in a way, related to what Minarelli says about electronic media, I'd like to ask the following questions:

• Who authored Yap Yap's poems?  Did she?  Did Tourette Syndrome?  Did the audience, whose reaction directly shaped the utterances and duration of the performance?  Who would be the "protagonist" in this kind of polytonal poetry, and is it even really polytonal poetry?  Is Yap Yap the arbiter of that, or is it for someone else to say?

2.  Glassolalia... I am confused by this piece.  If I understand it correctly, this is a collection of hymns and examples of glassolalia (speaking in tongues) recorded, but not generated by, the poet.  If this is true, if these are recorded rather than generated texts, this further troubles the issue of authority and--I think even more--also troubles the line between art and exploitation.