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Hugo Ball

Sound poems read by various performers (with texts) at Ubu

Charles Bernstein

Performing "Teke Heart" 'by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1921) at MoMA (NY) on June 7, 2016.
Jacket2 page, .mov, take one .mov; sound files (recored 6/8/16) (4:08): mp3, wav

Jaap Blonk

Performing Hugo Ball's Seepferdchen und Flugische, (1916): MP3 and Tristan Tzara's Brullt: MP3

Christian Bök

Performing Hugo Ball:

"Seepferdchen und Flugfische" (1916) (1:20) (2009): MP3
Sea Horses and Flying Fish (0:51) (1999): MP3
Karawane (1916) (0:55) : MP3
Totenklage (1:57) (Penn, 2005): MP3
Totenklage by Hugo Ball (1916) (1:58) (Getty, 2009): MP3

Raoul Hausmann

Soundrel (1919) (4:09): MP3
Poèmes Phonétiques Complètes: Phonèmes, R.L.Q.S. Varie en 3 cascades, Soundreel & Interview avec les Lettristes - published by S Press (info link) at Ubu

Richard Huelsenbeck

Richard Huelsenbeck / Tristan Tzara - Inventing Dada / Dada Into Surrealism (Interviews) (10:06): MP3
Richard Huelsenbeck's Phantastische Gebeté (1916) at Ubu
Tristan Tzara/Richard Huelsenbeck/Marcel Janco - L'amiral cherche une maison à louer (2:34) MP3

Marcel Janco

Tristan Tzara/Richard Huelsenbeck/Marcel Janco - L'amiral cherche une maison à louer (2:34) MP3

Steve McCaffery

Steve McCaffery performs "Sound-Rel" by Raoul Hausmann (1919), February 4, 2009 (1:50) : MP3

Janice Misurell-Mitchell

Janice Misurell-Mitchell performs "Karawane" (1916), 2017: YouTube

Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond performing Hugo Ball's "Karawane" on Ripley's Believe It or Not (link to Jacket2 page) (text)

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg performs Balls' "Karawane" (1916), c.1985 (with Jean-Charles Francois, percussion and Bertram Turetzky, bass) MP3 (text)

Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara/Richard Huelsenbeck/Marcel Janco - L'amiral cherche une maison à louer (2:34) MP3
Richard Huelsenbeck/ Tristan Tzara - Inventing Dada / Dada Into Surrealism (Interviews) (10:06): MP3

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