Ursonate kurt schwitters ursonate
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Some words to Kurt Schwitters' URSONATE, by Jaap Blonk
Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in He studied at the Applied Arts School, the Art Academy and the Institute of Technology. Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz. He made paintings, collages and objects; he wrote poems, sound poems and plays, which he published in his own magazine, also called Merz.
In , after gaining a national reputation with the absurd love poem &#;An Anna Blume&#;, he made contact with fellow Dadaists such as Hans Arp and Raoul Hausmann. In Schwitters had to flee the Nazis, via Norway to England, where he died in , sixty years of age.
At the source of Schwitters&#; Ursonate or &#;sonate in urlauten&#; ("primordial sonata" or &#;sonata in primordial sounds&#;) are two &#;Plakatgedichte&#; (&#;Poster Poems&#;) by Raoul Hausmann, which provided the sonata&#;s opening line:
&#;Fumms bö wö tää zää Uu, pögiff, kwii Ee&#;.
Schwitters used phrases such as this to provoke audiences at literary salons, who expected traditional romantic poetry, by endlessly repeating them in many different voices. In the course of ten years () he expanded this early version into a page work,
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Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters worked during ten years () on his Ursonate, or “Sonate in Urlauten” (“Primeval Sonata” or “Sonata in Primordial Sounds”), a work he later considered one of the two masterpieces he created, the other being his Hannover Merzbau.
The sonata is composed of phonetic sounds, and arranged in four movements, an overture, a finale, and a cadence at the end of the fourth movement to be interpreted at the performer’s discretion. These sounds are not meant to signify objects nor refer to a particular concept in language. Rather, given their meaninglessness as language, they are explored for their own sake, their importance residing in the rhythms and associations they create.
Today, the Ursonate’s score is easily available throughout the internet. To get there, however, it underwent a few changes. It became translated somehow: encoded. The ‘original’ poem became a surface with something added which it didn’t have before, yet something that is still language and can be read. This is edition presents the Ursonate's complete score in its binary form.
"[The Ursonate] is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel." - J. Rothenberg & P. Joris
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