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The work on this audio compilation is part of an intermittent ongoing tradition of artistic investigation of spoken language. The pieces included here negotiate potential oppositions such as semantic play and abstraction, musical and narrative structures, speech and song, one voice and many. Influences have been drawn from many sources including poetry, music, song, theatre, typography and graphic art, philosophy, radio, performance art, linguistics, fine art, literature and of course the keen observation and experience of the very many varieties of human communication that we all encounter and participate in every day.

The concerns of these contemporary artists in many cases relate back to their historical antecedents such as the poets, performers and other artists working with sound in the early part of the twentieth century, including the Futurists, Zaum poets, Dadaists and Lettristes who sought to invent new languages and new words in order to express their vision of reality and to deconstruct and reduce the power of language. Other featured artists are examining and revealing the experiences and complexities of contemporary society by engaging with how spoken language works and manifests itself. These works reflect more recent developments in linguistics and the psychology and philosophy of language revealing how meaning is negotiated and transmitted between individuals and groups, across cultures and through languages and their translations.

This online compilation has a companion Audio CD release. They both feature the same artists but, in some cases, different tracks. A DVD of live performances by some of these artists is also available.

Many of the artists on this compilation have also contributed to Playing with Words: the spoken word in artistic practice which is available from Cornerhouse Books at www.cornerhouse.org. Cathy Lane / CRiSAP www.crisap.org / London / 2010


abAna | Alphabet of Fishes
Tomomi Adachi | Osuterokomusa
Caroline Bergvall | Ride
Ansuman Biswas | 23:36,13/12/2009, +12° 46′, +77° 33′
Jaap Blonk | Sunday Crunch
Lars-Gunnar Bodin | The Lipton Voice Machinery # 2 (2005-2009)
Alessandro Bosetti | A Coloro Photo of the Horse
Brownsierra | A Culture Of Silence
Angus Carlyle | Kiyosumi
Viv Corringham | Skywalks
Lawrence Upton & John Levack Drever | NAMELY for Peter Manson (2009) (extract)
Thomas Gardner | Lipsync
Iris Garrelfs | K
Sten Hanson | Variations on a Theme by Laaban
Dirk HuelsTrunk | Analfabet
Sianed Jones | Taliesin
Mikhail Karikis | esimorP (extract)
Brandon LaBelle | Reading Silence
Leigh Landy | Rock’s Music
Cathy Lane | Tweed
Language Removal Services | The 60 Second Anthology of American Poetry
Paul Lansky | Now and Then
Lina Lapelyte | 12+2 for violin & electronics
Majena Mafe | Let her be … (extract)
Ellen Moffat | f_l_w_z
Ekrem Mülayim | Lost Souls
Katharine Norman | Losing It
Julien Ottavi | Shut your eyes and see
Nye Parry | My Name is Sarah Simpson
jörg piringer | el-sys
Amanda Stewart | Absence
Imogen Stidworthy | Three Jokes
Barry Truax | The Shaman Ascending (extract)
Michael Vincent | Dying Ain’t Bad Y’all
Salomé Voegelin | The Barry Echo (extract)
Julian Weaver | Certain Irregularities
Claudia Wegener | DURBAN SINGS rough radio
Charlotte White | Eternally Unfinished Attempt to Grasp Everything as it Happens (in only one language) (extract)
Trevor Wishart | Globalalia (extract)
John Wynne | Anspayaxw (extract)
Pamela Z | …and on your left…


Playing with Words: an audio compilation is funded by the AHRC
Compilation curated by Cathy Lane and Gruenrekorder 2010
CRiSAP www.crisap.org
Mastering by Tomislav Bucalic
Artwork by Tobias Schmitt – www.acrylnimbus.de
Sound Art Series by Gruenrekorder
Gruenrekorder / Germany / 2010
Gruen 065 / CD, MP3 / LC 09488 / EAN 4050486021859

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