10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces

Gysin (Composer), Anderson (Composer), Ashley (Composer), Dodge (Composer), Gnazzo (Composer), Giorno (Composer), Cage (Composer), Coolidge (Composer), Amirkhanian (Composer), Saroyan (Composer), O'Gallagher (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Gysin, Anderson, Ashley, Dodge, Gnazzo, et al.
• Audio CD (January 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Other Minds
• ASIN: B0001AC3IG
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,250 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic of Text Sound Music, May 7, 2004

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Allan J. Cronin "francis gerard" (Alameda, CA) - See all my reviews
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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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for all Space Cadets!, January 7, 2007

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S. A DUNN (Chehalis, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10+2:12 American Text Sound Pieces (Audio CD)

"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!