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Sound poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1304 Collections and/or Records:

The Soken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973 / Bob Cobbing; H Chopin; J Cobbing; F Dufrene; G Dufrene; P Finch., 2009

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Identifier: CC-59611-10002688
Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...
Dates: 2009

The Soken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973 / Bob Cobbing; H Chopin; J Cobbing; F Dufrene; G Dufrene; P Finch., 2009

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Identifier: CC-59611-10002688
Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...
Dates: 2009

[The Yellow Love] / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Nuttall J ; Cobbing B ; Benveniste A ; DeVree P ; Gysin B., 1968

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Identifier: CC-20200-20596
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Pamphlet One. The cover was designed by Jeff Nuttall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Third ABC in Sound / Cobbing, Bob., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35069-36797
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Each letter of the alphabet is immersed in abstract imagery. The first edition was published in 1964. The second edition was supposed to be published in the mid-1970s by Fulcrum Press but the publisher terminated operations and the edition can never be reconstituted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Thirty Concrete & Sound Poems to Celebrate 50 Years as a Poet / Cobbing, Bob ; Birdyak ; Pike J ; Metcalf P., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20349-20746
Scope and Contents

This suite of prints includes among others gon no nude, N Ndue, wan do tree, U CD FEG!, BESA, LN, Make perhaps this out sense of can you, iji, sovkless in sandals, DA-DA-DOO!, ata matumma, 'm, and love. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

This is a square poem / Cobbing, Bob., 1997

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Identifier: CC-44985-47161
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of previously published sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

This is Visual Poetry. No.21/Apr / Enzo Minarelli., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51961-73063
Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Enzo Minarelli, after his university degree in psycholinguistics at Cà Foscari Venice, since early Seventies, has been developing his multiple activities, starting from the written word which will become oral, visual and a televisive one. He has been active in the field of linear and visual poetry, several one-man shows , editing also CDs and DVDs. He is the theorist of Polypoetry (its manifesto comes (sic) out at Valencia in 1986), stating the spectacular event of sound poetry, he has been performing abroad. He has been the publisher of the vinyl series 3ViTre Records, producing about twenty records both at 45 turns and LP, founding the 3Vitre Archive of Polypoetry which has been collecting verbo-voco-visual works at an international level. Scholar and researcher about orality and poetry, his essays and books are a well-known reference. As a video-poet, he has produced many video-poems since the early 80s. His website is...
Dates: 2010