Kurt schwitters ursonate bo progression with verses. Ursonate01sonate via cb bilingual edition pdf hypothesis kurt schwitters epic sound poem ursonate is an enigma that has perplexed scholars for decades, or would have done, had its solution not long been considered a sisyphean impossibility. Find more prominent pieces of figurative at best visual art database. In 1937 schwitters had to flee the nazis, via norway to england, where he died in 1948, sixty years of age. Therefore the design of media art net will not display correctly. He moved to britain, where he spent the duration of the war at internment camps in scotland and the isle of man. Eg 376 so nimm denn meine hande orgelbuch free pdf. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. Just as collage is essentially the medium of irony, so schwitters life is characterized by paradox and enigma. Below the fold, you can find 9 versions of it by sound artists from around the world. Kurt schwitters ursonate wccmta, april 2628, victoria, bc example 4. Ursonate 192232 ursonate score mp3 versions of the ursonate in ubuweb sound audio works audio works of kurt schwitters in ubuweb sound kurt schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth centurys greatest master of collage.
If you see this text you use a browser which does not support usual webstandards. Schwitters, kurt 18871948 german artist, poet, essayist, dramatist, novelist, and shortstory writer. Ons overzicht van alle artiesten beginnend met a pagina 2 van 92. Sound poetry the most exclusive of exclusive art forms has through the decades been belched out of a number of exceptional, tobacco saturated organs of speech, who have been slurping and chewing the phonetic candies of language, spitting them out in cascades of consonant staccatos and pleasureseeking vocal eroticisms. Pdf some words to kurt schwitters ursonate jaap blonk. Print and download es ist fur uns eine zeit angekommen sheet music by carsten gerlitz arranged for voice or piano. Hans arp from a very rare record raoul hausmann some rare pieces from 1918 to 1957 recorded by henri chopin and the great kurt schwitters who read his only two recorded merzpoems anna blume and ursonate both recorded in 1932. Examples of thematic processes retrograde and vowel substitution repetition addition fumms bo wo taa zaa uu rakete rinnzekete fo uu zee tee wee bee fumms.
Before and after exact reproduction of steps to a houses doorway in a residential neighborhood in mexico city. Glory in the highest height, blazing with majestic light, shines in davids root and rod, the incarnate son of god. Books performance was first introduced by paul bright, who discusses dada and schwitters stake in hybridity as an artist. The published version of the ursonate 2 is a concrete poem that was constructed byjan tschichold, the swiss typographer. At the source of schwitters ursonate or sonate in urlauten sonata in primordial sounds are two plakatgedichte poster poems by raoul hausmann which. Kurt schwitters ursonate complete poem with verses. Kurt schwitters 18871948 was a painter, sculptor, designer and writer and worked in several genres and media, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Some words to kurt schwitters ursonate, by jaap blonk kurt schwitters was born in hannover in 1887. Most of the dada and futurist performances of musicpoetry were not recorded or the recordings are lost. Nov 01, 20 her performance of the ursonate was part of the letterforming exhibition, curated by hanes art gallery director paul bright and assistant director marcus keely. Kurt schwitters gave a new meaning to the phonetic poetry invented by raoul hausmann when he wrote one of his greatest pieces. Carsten gerlitz es ist fur uns eine zeit angekommen sheet. Schwitters is recognized for his unique contribution to twentiethcentury art and literature.
Including photos, texts, historical introduction translation in german, french and english. Pianovocalchords, and instrumental solo in f major. Kurt schwitters ursonate, written between 1922 and 1932 was the greatest sound poem of the 20th century. Lockdown sleep music 247, sleep therapy, sleep meditation, calm music, insomnia, study, spa, relax body mind zone 3,225 watching live now. It took artist kurt schwitters ten years to write the epic sound poem ursonate, a sonata in primordial sound. It is the primeval sound, at once before and beyond sense. Kurt schwitters reads an extract from ursonate by the 1930s, schwitters, along with many other artists including ernst and arp, was considered degenerate by the nazis and he fled germany. Although this form is entirely appropriate in the context of the ursonate s existence as an intermedia piece, i do not think that it was meant by kurt schwitters to be used as a performance score. The existance of this original recording is a miracle. All of kurt schwitterss original interpretations in addition to numerous later recordings of the ursonate have been available as mp3 files since 2008 on the kurt schwitters. Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, dll rrrrr beeeee bo dll rrrrr beeeee bo.
Excluido del movimiento dada berlines, reacciono fundando dada hannover. May 18, 2005 kurt schwitters ursonate 19221932 performed by jaap blonk. Raminish treats advanced choruses to this largely homophonic and fanfarelike work with energetic rhythms, a celebratory homage to j. Refused by the berlin dadaists, he started a oneman dada group in hannover called merz. Between 192332, schwitters edited the magazine merz.