Thursday, November 19, 2009

Seepferdchen und Flugfishche

Hugo Ball's "Seepferdchen und Flugfishche" is one of the strangest tid-bits of sound poetry i have come across so far.  The way his voice and the woman's overlap and interrupt each-other creates the most bizarre cacophony of sound.  One one hand the sounds seem to collapse upon each-other and become one continuous noise.  On the other hand, each sound has such contrast from the last that it give the overall string of noise this crazy sense of ebbing and flowing.  When i close my eyes and listen to it, it is as if the sound is jumping around in space, shooting from the back corner of the room right up to my ear, then zipping up and swinging back down.  It is a very interesting effect applying that kind of abstract expression of spacial contrast through sound.

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