BERNARD HEIDSIECK+STEN HANSON+JOHNSON SOUND POETRY LP
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BERNARD HEIDSIECK / BENGT EMIL JOHNSON / STEN HANSON / ILMAR LAABAN / ETC.
TEXT SOUND COMPOSITIONS 2 - A STOCKHOLM FESTIVAL 1968 LP
Sveriges Radio
Mega rare 60's swedish compilation of french & swedish sound poetry documenting the legendary Text Sound Compositions festivals. Highest recommendation.
Some info on the release: Second volume in a series of 7 long players issued in the late 60's by the Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio). In this series appeared sound poems or text sound compositions of Charles Amirkhanian, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Svante Bodin, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Gust Gils, C. Christer Hennix, Åke Hodell, Bengt Emil Johnsson, Sandro Key-Åberg, Annea Lockwood & Harvey Matusow, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Ghérasim Luca, Arne Mellnäs, Franz Mon, Ladislav Novák, Diter Rot & Emmet Williams, Erik Thygesen, Paul de Vree. You may know how rare these babies are, released in a limited edition of 500 copies back in the days and very hard to find even in Sweden, where they were released.
The term text-sound composition was coined in 1967 in Sweden by the composers/writers Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnsson, and was meant to serve to name a genre that was a vital art form in the no man's land between sound, poetry, and music. Text-sound compositions had influences from previous modernistic waves such as futurism, dadaism, lettrism, etc., but perhaps the most important influence was the Swedish poet and visual artist Öyvind Fahlström, who had just over a decade earlier coined the term "concrete poetry". The term concrete poetry related to Pierre Schaeffer's concrete music, and it is somewhere between concrete poetry and concrete music that text-sound compositions appear. The birth of the electronic music studio and concrete music's idea that every sound can be freed from its original context and given a new meaning when it is reworked and put together with other sounds in the electronic music studio became the catharsis for text-sound composition. In the electronic music studio, voice and language sounds can be broken down, unleashed, and then fused together to become a poetry that had never been heard before. Certain text-sound composers would come to work only with pure lingual sounds, but most eventually came to integrate lingual sounds with other sounds, both concrete and electronic. In the same "school" with Francois Dufrene, Ernst Jandl, Brion Gysin, Franz Mon, John Giorno, Gerhard Ruhm, Hugh Davies, Leo Kupper, Hugo Ball, Julien Blaine, Allen Ginsberg, etc.
Condition: Vinyl and cover lie in excellent- condition. Vinyl looks quite clean, but has some light "hairline" marks that don't affect playing, while it plays with some crackle. Cover would be like new if it didn't have a tiny split on the spine and a minor bend on the upper right corner.
Tracklist
A1 Jarl Hammarberg-Akesson & Sonja Hammarberg-Akesson - Frågar Du Vad Vi Håller På Med? A2 Ilmar Laaban - Stentorsstön A3 Bengt Af Klintberg - Rop B1 Sten Hanson - Coucher Et Souffler Voice - Bengt Emil Johnson, Liselotte Nilsson, Sten Hanson, Sören Brunes B2 Sten Hanson - Che Voice - Bengt Emil Johnson, Ernesto Guevara, Liselotte Nilsson, Sten Hanson, Sören Brunes B3 Bernard Heidsieck - Ne Restez Pas Debout Voice - Bernard Heidsieck, Åke Karlung B4 Bengt Emil Johnson - 2/1967 (Medan) Voice - Bengt Emil Johnson, Bernt Friberg, Christer Grewin, Jane Friedman, Lars-Gunnar BodinSHIPPING & PAYMENT
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