Originally resealed in 1975,
Poesia Sonora is one of the first international compilation of
sound poetry. Edited by
Maurizio Nannucci, the anthology gathers pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing,
François Dufrêne,
Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl,
Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino,
Brion Gysin,
Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, and Paul De Vree.
Sound Poetry emerged in the early years of the post-war avant-garde and pioneered phonetic art forms that explored the relationship between human speech and sound, experimental music and structures of language. Affiliated to Concrete Poetry,
Fluxus,
Minimalism,
Conceptual and
Performance art, the first generation of sound poets questioned the meanings of “music” and “poetry” using interferences as source of new phonetic art patterns/compositions.
Poesia Sonora represents one of the first international Sound Poetry-compilation. The record came out in 1975 for Cbs under the label “Recorthings & Zona Archives”, curated and edited by Maurizio Nannucci. The anthology collects pieces by some of the most important pioneers of the Sound Poetry movement: Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Franz Mon, Arthur Petronio, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Maurizio Nannucci, Paul De Vree.
Poesia Sonora is an indispensable reference anthology that sensitizes the ear for extraordinary pieces/compositions of sound and literary experiments.
