Rod S:
> > "ursonate" by kurt schwitters (wergo wer 6304-2 286
> > 304-2) it is the
> > original performance by the author and the recording
> > was discovered in the
> > 90's. almost nobody knew that it existed.
>
> gabriel: are you sure
> about this? i remember
> going to an exhibit of schwitter's works in the mid
> 70's (part of a series of "german cultural events"
> organized by the goethe institute) and it included
> schwitter's own (recorded, of course) rendition of the
> "ursonate" and other phonetic poems - also, brian eno
> samples schwitters/ursonate on his '77 album "before
> and after science".
http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/schwitters.html
It is possible that the recording was known only to a small number of individuals, and
not to the broader audience of interested listeners, until the 90's release on Wergo
made
it easily available. Or smaller snippets could have been recorded off the acetate
(and made the rounds, through Raaijamkers, Waisvisz, Eno and others), and the re-issue
was the
first "full" recording made available. Difficult to tell through web searching, as
1994 (the year of the Wergo release) is pre-historical (net-wise).
-Will
