Kurt schwitters ursonate complete poem with verses. This is a snippet of part 1 of the ursonate by kurt schwitters, which starts at 4. William kentridge incants kurt schwitterss iconic dada sound poem. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way. Project muse creating a visual translation of kurt. It is the primeval sound, at once before and beyond sense. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at best visual art database. Kurt schwitters reads an extract from ursonate by the 1930s, schwitters, along with many other artists including ernst and arp, was considered degenerate by the nazis and he fled germany. Grande composizione a con nero, rosso, grigio, giallo e blu depicts same object. Pdf some words to kurt schwitters ursonate jaap blonk. Kurt hermann eduard karl julius schwitters 20 june 1887 8 january 1948 was a german artist who was born in hanover, germany schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.
Ursel nate party uno remix by daniel matz please be as generous as you can. Philip granville 19112003 was the director of lords gallery, an art dealer and philanthropist. Mp3 transmedia artist lynn book performed kurt schwitters ursonate 1922 in the charlotte. The german artist kurt schwitters 18871948 was buried in ambleside, england, just over fifty years ago. Kurt schwitters ursonate 1992 lyrics at the lyric archive. Although this form is entirely appropriate in the context of the ursonate s existence as an intermedia piece, i do not think that it was meant by kurt schwitters to be used as a performance score. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to.
Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Kurt schwitters 18871948 was a painter, sculptor, designer and writer and worked in several genres and media, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. Kurt schwitters was a german dadaist sculptor, painter, poet and writer. Most of the dada and futurist performances of musicpoetry were not recorded or the recordings are lost. Ursonate by listening cd sheet music for buy print. Ursonate01sonate via cb bilingual edition pdf hypothesis kurt schwitters epic sound poem ursonate is an enigma that has perplexed scholars for decades, or would have done, had its solution not long been considered a sisyphean impossibility.
Choir directors and college music students may join our free easy rebates program and earn 8% cash back on sheet music purchases. See available paintings, works on paper, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. Main artists list charts genres last added lyrics artistgroup album song song lyrics advanced search. Kurt schwitters, german dada artist and poet, best known for his collages and relief constructions. Kurt schwitters ursonate at the cut and splice festival. He is most famous for his collages, called merz pictures. Pdf the expressive force of primitive masculine sounds. Soon after world war i schwitters was attracted by the emerging dada school, a nihilistic literary and artistic movement dedicated to the destruction of existing aesthetic values. They communicate a fantasy world that is at once gutwrenching and titillating, because they were interposed with banalities. The spring door was created in 1938 by kurt schwitters in dada style. There he remained, sharing the company of his father and mother, of his wife and son, supported by the rent derived from four other houses, until forced by hitler to emigrate in 1937. Lynn book performing kurt schwitter s ursonate ursonate performance, wake forest university, winstonsalem, north carolina, november 5, 20. He represented as essential dada artist the nonpolitical dada in germany.
This file is licensed under the creative commons attribution 3. Placing the sound work of schwitters within his full merz project, the author assesses the relations between the ursonate and the final merzbau. William kentridge incants kurt schwitterss iconic dada. Kurt schwitters, ne le 20 juin 1887 a hanovre, en empire allemand, et mort le 8 janvier 1948 a. Between 192332, schwitters edited the magazine merz. This collection, culled from the fivevolume german edition of schwitters writings, introduces the total work of art that is merz through schwitters words. Artist philosopher is published to accompany an exhibition at bernard. Glass flower by kurt schwitters 18871948 and part of asbestos mat also by kurt schwitters, centre and right. Poems performances pieces proses plays poetics kurt schwitters kurt schwitters stated goal was to erase the boundaries between the arts. Schwitterss ursonate and the merz barn wall leonardo. My ursonate is what i imagine the poem by kurt schwitters might sound like if performed at high speed by f.
Kurt schwitters, elikan, 1925 radio was new technology at the time and it blows my mind how modern some things looked. Perhaps amazon should ask wergo for clarification of their claim. Sound documents kurt schwitters original recordings of kurt schwitters merz merzgrammophonplatte, scherzo of the ursonate, voice. This paper examines the ways in which language sounds with a masculine or feminine emotional character convey meaning and structure in kurt schwitters expressive nonverbal poem the ursonate. Schwitters worked in several genres and mediums, including dada, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, collage, sculpture, typography and what came to be known as installations. Kurt schwitters ursonate bo progression with verses. He moved to britain, where he spent the duration of the war at internment camps in scotland and the isle of man. All of kurt schwitters s original interpretations in addition to numerous later recordings of the ursonate have been available as mp3 files since 2008 on the kurt schwitters. Kurt schwitters, hanover 1925 private recording anna blume. One of the last letters he wrote before his death was to his american patron katherine. Kurt hermann eduard karl julius schwitters 20 june 1887 8 january 1948 was a german painter. This paper notes the importance of kurt schwitters s merz project to the modernist politics and poetics of exile of the 20th century. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism. Pere du photographe ernst eduard friedrich schwitters 19181996.
Kurt schwitters grew up in the expressionists germany, in the warm, comfortable, friendly, happy and exceedingly bourgeois home supplied by his parents. The emotional character of sounds is associated with their physical qualities e. Blonk and boks versions benefit from being delivered at roughly twice the speed of the original, but i didnt make it through either of them in one sitting. Some words to kurt schwitters ursonate, by jaap blonk kurt schwitters was born in hannover in 1887. Kurt schwitters june 20, 1887 january 8, 1948 was a german painter who was born in hannover, germany. On the walls, magia horographica by friedrich meckseper german, b. Nevertheless, the speed of the images invite free association and i was. He discusses three of these relationscollage, found objects and the structures of building materiality.
Ursonate 192232 ursonate score mp3 versions of the ursonate in ubuweb sound audio works audio works of kurt schwitters in ubuweb sound kurt schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth centurys greatest master of collage. Schwitters emphasized the importance of sounds and the merz multimodal nature of art. The kurt schwitters society was founded in 2010 in order to. The published version of the ursonate 2 is a concrete poem that was constructed byjan tschichold, the swiss typographer. The existance of this original recording is a miracle. Kurt schwitters german, 18871948, untitled mz elikan elikan elikan, c. Refused by the berlin dadaists, he started a oneman dada group in hannover called merz. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Peintre, fondateur du mouvement merz, variante allemande du dadaisme. Kurt schwitters has 60 books on goodreads with 1094 ratings.
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