10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces

Track Listings

1. Just (1972)

2. Heavy Aspirations (1973)

3. Preface (1968)

4. 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971)

5. Give It to Me, Baby (1967)

6. The Population Explosion (1969)

7. When I Am with You (Speech Songs, 1973)

8. He Destroyed Her Image (Speech Songs, 1973)

9. In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (1972)

10. Torero Piece (1973)

11. Come to Free the Words (1962)

12. Border Dissolve in Audiospace (1970)

13. crickets (1965)

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
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.

Tracks:

Just (1972)
Heavy Aspirations (1973)
Preface (1968)
62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971)
Give It to Me, Baby (1967)
The Population Explosion (1969)
When I Am with You (Speech Songs, 1973)
He Destroyed Her Image (Speech Songs, 1973)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (1972)
Torero Piece (1973)
Come to Free the Words (1962)
Border Dissolve in Audiospace (1970)
crickets (1965)

Album Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

A must for all Space Cadets!.......2007-01-08

"Ground control to Major Tom!"

I first got introduced to such Sound Poetry in the "Signals from the Shadow Pool" radio program on KRCL radio in Salt Lake. The program played all the obscure readings, freak-outs and cosmic noises "digged" by all "Cosmicly Concious" space cadets who once "known colors!" From Negativland to the Residents to Nurse With Wound, ears were tickled with ear candy. And conneseurs of the bizarre were satisfied.

This album is a fine starting point for those aged "beat-poets' out there who appreciate one form of art media being transformed into another media.

Of particular interest is the beat-poet Brion Gysin. He takes the style and color of William S. Burroughs- a colleague of his- and vividly through sound transforms such into a beat lecture, including the sound of each "free word" being transcribed to a chalk board!

As Timothy Leary once said:- "Once cosmic, always cosmic!" Order this album and expand your cosmos!

A Classic of Text Sound Music.......2004-05-07

I bought this when it was first released by the now defunct 1750 Arch records. It opened a whole new world for me and changed the way I think about music. This collection of text sound pieces is a good representation of the state of the art at the time of its release. Artists featured come from a variety of backgrounds but all are sort of crossing over between poetry and music in a sort of grey area which had been little explored.

Most notable is the work of Charles Amirkahnian, San Francisco radio producer and advocate of contemporary music. But this is a great anthology of artists and should be better known.

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1. Just (1972)
2. Heavy Aspirations (1973)
3. Preface (1968)
4. 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971)
5. Give It to Me, Baby (1967)
6. The Population Explosion (1969)
7. When I Am with You (Speech Songs, 1973)
8. He Destroyed Her Image (Speech Songs, 1973)
9. In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (1972)
10. Torero Piece (1973)
11. Come to Free the Words (1962)
12. Border Dissolve in Audiospace (1970)
13. crickets (1965)