Brandon LaBelle
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013901
- eISBN:
- 9780262289696
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013901.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter examines sound poetry, a speculative form that presaged the digital, and the reduction of sound to phonetic material characterized by modularity and “cut-upability.” Focusing on several ...
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This chapter examines sound poetry, a speculative form that presaged the digital, and the reduction of sound to phonetic material characterized by modularity and “cut-upability.” Focusing on several writers and artists, from 1920s sound poets such as Hugo Ball and Kurt Schwitters to Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin, and William Burroughs, it illustrates the double movement of the voice in contemporary sound poetry and art. This double movement seeks to make the body enter language again while also playing with the way technology allows the voice to be radically separated from the body.Less
This chapter examines sound poetry, a speculative form that presaged the digital, and the reduction of sound to phonetic material characterized by modularity and “cut-upability.” Focusing on several writers and artists, from 1920s sound poets such as Hugo Ball and Kurt Schwitters to Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin, and William Burroughs, it illustrates the double movement of the voice in contemporary sound poetry and art. This double movement seeks to make the body enter language again while also playing with the way technology allows the voice to be radically separated from the body.
