10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces

Sound poems or ‘text-sound compositions’ represent a cross-fertilization of the traditional arts of music and poetry. Originally released in 1974, this CD re-release is the first to anthologize text-sound pieces by U.S. composers, poets and visual artists. The advent of the magnetic tape recorder and other various electronic devices (1950-1955) presented artists of various disciplines with a wider possibility of altering natural sound, including the speaking voice. Here is a music composed from speaking, not singing. Here is also a poetry, which extends our notion of the traditional "reading"—the work can only exist as sound.

    Anthony Gnazzo‎
    Aram Saroyan‎
    Beth Anderson‎
    Brion Gysin‎
    Charles Amirkhanian‎
    Charles Dodge‎
    Clark Coolidge‎
    John Cage‎
    John Giorno‎
    Liam O'Gallagher‎
    Robert Ashley‎

• 10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces (1975) - 159-253 Kbps

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