[spectre] "WOLMAN, LETTRISM, SOUND POETRY AND BEYOND" podcast, by frédéric acquaviva

[Radio Web MACBA]

On this #InternationalPoetryDay, we dig up our podcast *Wolman, Lettrism,
Sound Poetry and Beyond*:

Link: http://bit.ly/c7vtYC

MP3 file: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/wolman/wolmannew.mp3

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Although Gil J Wolman's seminal sound work has been largely overlooked, it
was a precursor of sound poetry and is one of the key elements of Lettrist
poetry. This radio show reconstructs the link between Lettrism, sound
poetry, and the work of some isolated but fundamental figures.

Summary:
In 1950, after meeting *Isidore Isou *and joining the Lettrist movement, *Gil
J Wolman* invented the notion of mégapneumie, poems of breath and pure
sound. Although his seminal sound work has been largely overlooked, it was
a precursor of sound poetry and is one of the key elements of Lettrist
poetry. This radio show reconstructs the link between Lettrism, sound
poetry, and the work of some isolated but fundamental figures, so as to
recover a piece of sound art history. Lettrism launched its first manifesto*
in Paris in 1946, *through the voice of its creator and main theorist
Isidore Isou. It proposed and systematised a fusion between poetry and
music and incorporated body sounds written down with the help of a new
alphabet, and also introduced innovations in the visual arts field with
hypergraphy. Isou (1925-2007) and his first partner in creation, *Gabriel
Pomerand (*1926-1972), were joined by *François Dufrêne *(1930-1982),
*Jean-Louis
Brau* (1930-1985), Gil J Wolman (1929-1995) and Maurice Lemaître (1926),
and later by *Jacques Spacagna* (1936-1990), *Roberto Altmann *(1942) *Roland
Sabatier *(1942) and *Broutin *(1948), amongst others. In 1950, Gil J Wolman
invented mégapneumie, or breath poetry, and just two years later, in 1953,
François Dufrêne bought a tape recorder and used it to compose his
crirythmes, which were performed publicly for the first time in October
1955. This experiment cleared the way for more intensive use of this
expressive tool, and in 1959, sound poetry was born with the diverse voices
of* Henri Chopin* (1922-2008) and Bernard Heidsieck (1928), and even *Brion
Gysin *(1916-1986). This show also includes the voices of some solitary
figures such as *Ghérasim Luca* (1913-1994), who marked the end of
surrealism and contributed to the emergence of a repetetive-interpretative
poetry; Altagor (1915-1982) and his metapoetry*; Otto Muehl *(1925), who
could be one of the bastard children of mégapneumes (at least in his sound
work dating from 1968), and the voice and words of *Pierre Guyotat* (1940),
which can be heard in one of * Frédéric Acquaviva'*s musical compositions.


*Enjoy!*
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