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| | | rumpsti pumsti (edition) (germany) #nummer 12 cd carlfriedrich claus / harmut geerken “einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen” compact disc - einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen (60:33)
| june 2011 release ; ... one of few recordings of the late carlfriedrich claus’ concrete-poetry, recorded in 1991 in collaboration with vaunted free-percussionist harmut geerken (whose mid-70’s recordings with michael ranta were the focus of a 5-lp box that was to be among the final releases on qbico) ...
... with each party reading text(s) aloud amidst a haze of taped materials & electronic-sound aggregations, this is a honey of a “poetry recital” often de-stabilizing into raucous flare-outs ... only to recede moments later into whisper-quiet admonition(s) ... an absolutely incredible, eye-opening, and historically important document ; highly recommended !!! |
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carlfriedrich claus & hartmut geerken - einem luftigen akustischen kosmos entgegen
rumpsti pumsti (edition) nummer 12
edition of 300 copies
comes with 12-page booklet including a text by hartmut geerken (german only)
collaboration performance by these two infamous german visual artists & sound-poets, recorded at lyrik-kabinett münchen, june 1991. this is carlfriedrich claus' only sound-collaboration ever. both artists prepared a 60-minute backing-tape and wrote a detailed score for live-performed poetry and voice-operations. in addition to these fixed compositions they left room for spontaneous improvisation and the use of small cymbals ('tschinkas').
this is like nothing else. very serious, raw and quite unsettling.
between the early 1950s and his death in 1998, carlfriedrich claus (born 1930) produced a corpus of work that occupies terrain somewhere between philosophy, art, linguistics and acoustic literature. both visually with his language sheets and acoustically with his language operations, he plumbed and explored the depths of human consciousness, making a wholly individual contribution to the art of the 20th century in doing so. these sound processes and language operations have a consistency and radicalism unacknowledged hitherto.
hartmut geerken (born 1939) is an author, composer, musician, film-maker, performer, actor, mycologist, archivist, stager of exhibitions, publisher of numerous authors from the circle of literary expressionism and dada, lumberjack, and bumble-bee-keeper. as a percussionist, he has collaborated with a variety of free jazz musicians such as sun ra, john tchicai, sainkho namtchylak. as a poet, he is a practitioner of concrete poetry and organizes events such as the annual bielefeld new poetry colloquium. as an actor, he appeared in six films by herbert achternbusch and appeared in two of achternbusch's plays at the munich kammerspiele. |
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