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Sound poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1304 Collections and/or Records:

Graphpoemachines / Chopin, Henri ; Henson S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62523-47677
Scope and Contents This catalogue features sculptures made from outdated tape recorders analogous to sculptures created by Nam Jong Paik from television seats. There are also reproductions of 12 typewriter poems placed in an inside flap on the back cover. This is the last catalogue held by the Sackners done during Chopin's lifetime. He died in January 2008 at age 85 years and Frederic Acquaviva wrote his obituary for the Guardian that was reproduced on the internet: Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s...
Dates: 2006

Grin / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17510-17876
Scope and Contents

Designated minibooks number seventeen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Grosso Modo / Flaatus Vocis Trio; B Ferrando; F Miranda; L Barber., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13323-13624
Scope and Contents

Described as "Musica Hablada" on the record cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Grosso Modo / Flaatus Vocis Trio; B Ferrando; F Miranda; L Barber., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13323-13624
Scope and Contents

Described as "Musica Hablada" on the record cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

han sing dan / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob ; Pike J., 1997

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Identifier: CC-45235-47420
Scope and Contents

The book utilized photographs taken by Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Hard Drive: 12 Computer Generated Poems / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28414-29657
Scope and Contents

The images of the prints depict computer circuit boards. These serve as abstract versions for sound poems as first utilized by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Henri Chopin / Archives., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51242-72330
Scope and Contents

Three works by Chopin are offered: OU No.33, Le dernier roman du monde and dans l'Esex, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010