Décade - Anne-James Chaton, Alva Noto y Andy Moor Foto Remi Goulet

ReVox

New experiences in sound poetry

lunes 24 enero 2011
12:17
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ReVox is a European sound poetry festival positioned at the crossroads of poetry, orality and technology.

The festival is named after the ReVox brand tape recorder, an instrument that played an essential role in exploring the expressive possibilities of the voice, its polyphony and the manipulation of the signifier and the signified.

All of the works presented at the festival, which must be seen and heard live, have the effect of stretching the limits of books and records to the realm of staging and acoustics. The 2010 festival in Madrid featured the work Décade, a confluence of voice, electronics and experimentation performed by the French poet Anne-James Chaton, the German electronic music artist Alva Noto and Andy Moor, guitarist for the Dutch punk collective The Ex. They were joined by the Brazilian poet and DJ Ricardo Domeneck, who mixes video and poetry; Belgian musicologist and poet Jelle Meander, who explores the boundaries between music and poetry; the Peruvian poet Peru Saizprez, who combines different elements of performance art in his recitals; and the Austrian Jörg Piringer, a key international figure in electronic poetry.

Courtesy of the ReVox festival and the Lacosta team, this podcast is able to present the work of some of the artists who participated in the event.

Production

José Luis Espejo

Locution

Luis Mata

Acknowledgements

Sandra y Marta de http://www.lacosta.cat

License
Creative Commons by-nc-sa 4.0
Audio quotes
  • Alva Noto (+ Anne James Charles Chaton) "u_08-1" en Unitix, Raster-Noton. (2008)
  • Jörg Piringer. "Did" en Mmmzzz.., Oozebap (2003)
  • Anne James Charles Chaton y Andy Moor. Portrait

ReVox

New experiences in sound poetry

ReVox. New experiences in sound poetry. Vague writings. Sound Poetry Festival, December 16 - 17, 2010.

Tags: Music, Poetry, Technology, Borders, Language

Eduard Escofet, poet and festival co-organiser: 
This is a ReVox (Sound from a ReVox C 270)

A ReVox is an open-reel recorder that was the precursor to the democratisation of sound editing…recording, editing sound and recording several tracks on one tape. It took the utopian idea shared by Baroque and medieval poets – that poets could multiply their voices – and made it real.
We selected several very different examples, although almost all of them are related to music in some way.
Jörg Piringer, an Austrian electronic poet.

ReVox is a series dedicated to new experiments in sound poetry. It goes beyond recitals and aurality and takes texts from the page to sound. It must be heard, since this isn’t just a recited text; other sound and technological elements take it to a new dimension.
These poets replaced the typewriter with the tape recorder. To some extent, behind sound poetry you can see the utopia of ‘50s and ‘60s art, crossing borders and building a creative network across Europe. Ricardo Domeneck, a Brazilian living in Berlin, uses text, sound and video at the same time. Jelle Meander, from Belgium, is an author who explores the boundary space between the text as spoken and the text as sung. Peru Saizprez is an author who works with repetition and recitation combined with performance elements. The French sound poet Anne-James Chaton, Alva Noto, a minimalist electronic musician and Andy Moor, the guitarist and improviser with the group The Ex.