Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early
linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.
(the drum) is one of Ulises Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in black ink in 1972. The artist fragments the names of musical instruments to express a sound. His attitude to
poetry precluded, to a certain extent, his book
The New Art of Making Books: “The text of a book in the new art can be a novel as well as a single word, sonnets as well as jokes, love letters as well as weather reports.”
