The Poet's Tongue
Title
The Poet's Tongue
Subject
Spoken word, poetry,
Description
**Intriguing collection of conceptual poetry/sound art. Edition limited to 270 copies** "Ulises Carrión's audio works clearly reflect his passion for language, its structures, sounds and meanings. He greatly enjoyed grammatically dissecting languages and trying to understand and explore their structures. His many initiatives and projects bear witness to his boundless obsessions with communication and circulation of works and ideas as a cultural strategy. This LP includes “Hamlet for Two Voices” (1977) in which two voices read out the names of the characters in the Shakespearean play as they appear in the script, audibly representing the structure of the roles the characters perform. “Poema” (1977) orally represents the structure and spatial characteristics of a poem, by listing all its structural elements: words, paragraphs and verses, etc. The LP also includes “Aritmetica”, “Three Spanish Pieces”, “First Spanish Lesson” as well as the legendary “45 revoluciones por minuto”, the grooviest track ever created within the context of conceptual art. All pieces, recorded at the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht between September and October 1977, have in common their refusal of discursiveness. They are not meant to be true or beautiful. Each piece is a series of vocal units that unfolds according to simple rules. Their beginning and end are arbitrary – they could go on infinitely. They should go on. They go on. First LP ever issued by Ulises Carrion who in 1975 ‘created’ the legendary bookshop-gallery “Other Books & So”, the first space dedicated exclusively to artists’ publications such as artists’ records, books, magazines, postcards."
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Tracklist
A1 Hamlet, For Two Voices 15:36
A2 Aritmetica 5:19
B1 Three Spanish Pieces 7:21
B2 Poema 1:57
B3 First Spanish Lesson 7:13
B4 45 Revoluciones Por Minuto 3:59
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A1 Hamlet, For Two Voices 15:36
A2 Aritmetica 5:19
B1 Three Spanish Pieces 7:21
B2 Poema 1:57
B3 First Spanish Lesson 7:13
B4 45 Revoluciones Por Minuto 3:59
W
Conceptual poetry/sound art. All pieces recorded at the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht in 1977.
Side A:
1: Hamlet, for two voices
2: Aritmetica
Side B:
3:Three Spanish Peices
-First Piece
-Second Piece
-Third Piece
4: Poema
5: First Spanish Lesson
6: 45 Revoluciones por minuto
Side A:
1: Hamlet, for two voices
2: Aritmetica
Side B:
3:Three Spanish Peices
-First Piece
-Second Piece
-Third Piece
4: Poema
5: First Spanish Lesson
6: 45 Revoluciones por minuto
Creator
Ulises Carrion
Publisher
Alga Marghen – plana-C 24VocSona086
Date
2012
Contributor
Guy Schraenen (editor)
Relation
Format
Approximately 40 minutes
Language
English
Type
Spoken word, experimental poetry
Identifier
WCLP0019
Coverage
Italy
Collection
Citation
Ulises Carrion, “The Poet's Tongue,” WPB, accessed April 24, 2024, https://tpb.worm.org/items/show/12778.