I enjoy the sound of sound poetry. I enjoy repetition (usually!) which there tends to be a good amount of and I marvel at hearing people making synthesiser type noises with nothing but their voice.
My knowledge of the genre is reasonably limited though. I need to do more research and welcome any listening/reading recommendations anyone may have.
Some examples:
Kurt Schwitters - seeing an exhibition including a work by this artist pretty much brought about my interest in sound poetry.
Lily Greenham - some of her stuff tends to be a bit more processed. This is a piece for 6 voices from 1974.
Finally, something I found a couple of weeks ago. âHiss and Visceraâ by Audrey Chen and Richard Scott. Itâs a combination of synthesiser and voice which has blended the two elements together well in a very cohesive manner.
You can also find most of Chopinâs audio journal Revue OU on youtube if you search âRevue OU Alga Marghenâ.
That list of artists on ubu is kind of daunting. Here is a quick selection of other artists on ubu to check out.
François DufrĂȘne
The Four Horsemen
Barras_Demierre
Anton Bruhin
Christian Bok
Tomomi Adachi
Thank you both for your recommendations and links.
Henri Chopin is a name Iâd come across but hadnât done any listening to his compilations yet.
Time to remedy that situation
In 1945 the french writer, artist and philosopher isidor isou founded an avant-garde movement called âlettrismeâ. Here a funny and interesting film document that is presented by Orson Welles (who doesnât really seem to take it as serious art )
Thanks for the link and sorry for taking so long to say so. Been busy the last couple of days.
Iâll add it to my watch/listen list for the weekend.
It will be interesting to see where Lettrisme came from. Lots seem to link back to Dadaism and maybe back to the Futurists.
âAutomatic Writingâ was composed in the recorded form over a period of five years, during which time I was fascinated with âinvoluntary speech.â I had come to recognize that I might have a mild form of Touretteâs syndrome (characterized in my case only by purely involuntary speech) and I wondered, naturally, because the syndrome has to do with sound-making and because the manifestation of the syndrome seemed so much like a primitive form of composing-an urgency connected to the sound-making and the unavoidable feeling that I was trying to âget something right,â-whether the syndrome was connected in some way to my obvious tendencies as a composer.
