| >>> Which gets into realms of potential poetry that might be arguably
>>> blurring the line between music and language... interesting, eh?
>>
>>Which is exactly what the swedish "Text-Sound" movement of the 1960's
>>did. In 1953 swedish poet =D6yvind Fahlstr=F6m wrote his "Manifesto For
>>Concrete Poetry" where he suggested a form of poetry on the same
>>principles as the concrete music, he wanted to strip the poetry of all
>>semantic content and use the words and syllables as pure poetic
>>carriers. The resulting movement used tapes and electro-aucustic
>>techniques to acheive his goals, and no-one could really decide if
>>they composed music or wrote poetry, hence the term "Text-Sound
>>Compositions" where coined.
>
>I'm familiar with the work, though not the history of it...
there is a nice little book on similar work entitled Dada Performance,
edited by Mel Gordon, PAJ publications, NY. During Dada's non reign circa
1916-24:
"(Hugo) Ball, (Richard) Huelsenbach, and (Tristan) Tzara experimented with
three kinds of poetic techniques: Lautgedichte (sound-poetry and
noise-music); simultaneous poetry; and chance poetry. Although the
Futurists and turn-of-the-century German poets had already pioneered the
use of nonsense words and onomatopoetic sounds as literary devices, the
Dadas incorporated them into moments of hysterical incantation with real
drumbeats..."
but, as the italian futurists also previously created noise music with
mechanical sound making devices (manifesto: the art of noise 1906?), and
their work does not seem to be as well documented, you have to wonder if
they really didn't get there first -after some ancient tribe somewhere else.
gadji beri bimba!
tolve
>one of my
>college professors, Charles Stein, continues to be quite active in this
>field. He's written some very interesting scores with "nonsense" words
>and sounds scattered over the page and directional symbols suggesting
>patterns of movement among them, as well as roughly indicating
>inflections. Plus we used to do a lot of "text-sound" improvisation. Fun
>stuff.
>
>--PW
>
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