When reel to reels become affordable during the 1950s, poetry reaches a new level. The human voice gets enhanced with effects, contrasted with other recordings, and put in place in arrangements.
37-minute program with works by Ernst Jandl, Henri Chopin, Paul de Vree, Sten Hanson and others.
Featured cover art: Disconnected (The Dial-A-Poem Poets)
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Playlist ‘Enhanced Poetry’
Demetrio Stratos – Flautofonie ed altro
a rite like composition (1978, Cramps Records)
Paul de Vree – Vertigo Gli
the encounter of love (erotic), during man’s passage from birth to death (1963, Alga Marghen)
Sten Hanson – Skarp dig, for fan!
shamanistic poem (1991, Alga Marghen)
Neil Mills – Gong Poem
evocation of a prayer-chant (1971, Arts Council of Great Britain)
Four Horsemen – Matthew’s Line
poetry as collective experience (1972, Holidays Records)
Bernard Heidsieck – Canal Street 19
from a series with 35 poems about communication (1976, Al Dante)
Jean-Claude Gagnon – À gaga gougou
stand up comic sound poetry with additives (1987, 3vitrepair)
Enzo Minarelli – Sinergicoral B.
sound experiment based on images (1981, 3vitre)
Henri Chopin – La Chanson du Parlement Européen
human being and a machine telling a story together (1968, Alga Marghen)
bpNichol – Dada Lama
a dada poet becomes the Buddhist Lama to free the worshipper from the limits of time (1966, New Fire Tapes)
Charles Amirkhanian – Radii
homage to radio by KPFA/Berkeley’s Music Director (1972, Giorno Poetry Systems)
Ernst Jandl – Talk
radiophonic sound poem, realized for the BBC (1966, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach)
Ladislav Novák – Ceterum Autem
based on Cato the Elder’s words in the Roman Senate about the destruction of Carthago (1969, Fylkingen Records)
Augusto De Campos – Tensão
seven word pairs start dancing (1956, Artemeios)
Bob Cobbing – ABC in Sound (t)
the letter t as it appears in Bob Cobbing’s book ABC in Sound (1965, Aisthesis Verlag)
Gerhard Rühm – Verkürzte Zeitspanne
nuanced changes of a voice during masturbation (1973, Tochnit Aleph)