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#139: Max Mathews – Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two)

#155: Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – The Quail Song

#93: Jaap Blonk – Nonomotithur

#212: The Evolution Control Committee – Star Spangled Bologna

#226: John Oswald – Baby It’s Cold

#232: Charles Kellogg – Polish Dance

#19: Moondog ‎– Fog On The Hudson

#242: The Tape-beatles – America Is Confident

#16: David Toop – Mabutawi-Teri: Rain Song

#81: Raoul Hausmann – Oiseautal

‘We wanted to abandon a language that had been devastated and rendered impossible by journalism!’ This is how Hugo Ball described the Dadaists' motivation for leaving words behind at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire. Many artists began experimenting with the possibilities of phonetic poetry, based solely on the musical expression of the voice. This so called Sprachmusik was inspired by such diverse things as magic spells, tongue twisters and the transposition of parts of words. In 1919, the self-proclaimed Berlin Dadasoph Raoul Hausmann took the singing of birds as a model for his sound poem Oiseautal.