Label: Alga Marghen – Plana-D 19vocson078.1-3, Guy Schraenen Éditeur – none Format: 3 x CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Box Set Country: Italy Released: 2010 Genre: Electronic, Non-Music Style: Spoken Word, Experimental, Poetry
Monumental 3CD anthology from French sound poet and Nouveau visual artist François Dufrêne - one of the most extensive and impressive sound poetry collections to date.
We’ve played through this box at least once a week for the past few months and every rotation draws us deeper into its world.Backstory - Dufrêne was was one of the earliest sound poets.Already in the Lettrist group at aged 16, later the ultra-Lettrist moment where he developed his own Crirhythm style which began incorporating vocal concrete music and the artistic possibilities of nonsense, noise, yelps, etc as a means of expression.Most notably, in the mid-50s Dufrêne is the first artist reported to have performed with a tape recorder.
It’s often brutal, overpowering but laced with humour.Heavily daubed classical music, smeared in heavy breathing and feverish vocal mutations.There’s a juxtaposition between the highbrow, often impenetrable, ivory tower world of classical music and Dufrêne’s unsettling non-verbal poetry.The lack of respect and razing of institution in a genuinely avant-garde way.Elsewhere, jazz percussion is defaced, or tape-music pieces are performed without musical accompaniment allowing their jarring qualities to penetrate deeper.Such works laid the foundation or later sound poets (Henri Chopin / Bernard Heidsieck), but we feel the same influence within the likes of Graham Lambkin’s work, Pierre Henry for INA-GRM, Hans Krüsi or Aaron Dilloway and much of the contemporary noise stuff.Intrepid listening.For some reason, we also have the box available on CD(NM/NM).
Tracklist 1-1 Crirythme Pour Un Double Anniversaire Dedicated To Ginetta And Anouj 18:22 1-2 La Guitare En Long 8:57 1-3 PostcriRYTHptum 2:17 Osmose-Art 1-4 Köchel Que J'Aime 9:34 1-5 Le Cheval Lié À L'Art Rose 12:34 1-6 Les Joyeux Sisyphe 7:30 2 Lectures-Collage: 2-1 La Ressource Du Petit Peuple & Tenilom De Jean Molinet, Grand Rhethoriqueur Du XVe Siecle 18:59 2-2 Dit Du Vieux Marin De Coleridge 10:28 3 Crirythmes: 2-3 Belles Nuisances, Hantez Nos Nuits 10:49 2-4 Est-Ouest 8:23 2-5 Tête À Terre Et Ventre Au Ciel 9:32 - 3-1 Eryximaque, Post-Scriptum Au Tombeau De Pierre Larousse For A Dance Piece By Teresa Trujillo 7:21 3-2 Séquences (Crirythme) 20:30 3-3 Excerpts From Comptinuum 13:09 3 Crirythmes: 3-4 Sature, Nain! I 8:01 3-5 Cacochyme 2:17 3-6 Sature, Nain! II 7:07 - 3-7 Crirythme Pour Tinguely 8:55
