Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance.
History and development
The vanguards of the 20th Century
While it is sometimes argued that the roots of sound poetry are to be found in oral poetry traditions, the writing of pure sound texts that downplay the roles of meaning and structure is a 20th-century phenomenon. The Futurist and Dadaist Vanguards of the beginning of this century were the pioneers in creating the first sound poetry forms. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti discovered that onomatopoeias were useful to describe a battle in Tripoli where he was a soldier, creating a sound text that became a sort of a spoken photograph of the battle. Dadaists were more involved in sound poetry and they invented different categories:
Bruitist poem it is the phonetic poem, not so different from the futurist poem. Invented by Richard Huelsenbeck.
He spoke French, he spoke Italian, he spoke Yiddish, he read Latin, he wrote poetry ... He loved the sound of words. "And I would often find him sitting in the chair and he would just be repeating a word again and again because of the sound.".
Corinna and other attendees enjoyed a variety of cultural highlights, including the melodic sounds of the konghou, children reciting classical poetry, and a performance by local artists playing the ...
nothing but sound ...Dedicated to the memory of the poet Maurice Scully, A Book of Sounds is profoundly committed to the future there might still be for organic life on Earth, and a tribute to the art and craft of poetry.
This friend's advice - that while music was about sound, poetry was really about silence - is something Andrews now keeps in mind as an "aspirational poet" ...Everything just sounded so, so beautiful."
The well-read, kindly father Sharif (played by the great Palestinian actor AdamBakri) enjoys tending to his orange groves and teaching his young son Salim (Salah Aldeen Mai) to appreciate poetry.
... with the dramatic sounds around them ... With its whisper-thin characters, vague narrative, and acres of portentous poetry about sound, RabbitTrap feels somehow both underwritten and overwritten.
pacificsymphony.org H.Sinno The composer, writer, performer and social justice advocate performs “Poems of Consumption,” a song cycle combining poetry and the sounds of consumerism (crumpling cellophane, bubble wrap, unboxing, ripping plastic, etc.).
... combine operatic artistry with the vibrant sounds of South Africa.</p><p>The event will conclude with a poetry evening titled VoicesUnbound, moderated by Emirati poet Shaikha Al Mutairi.
Lonnie Ali and the legendary boxer's close friend, John Ramsey, will host a new audio series "Ali in Me," debuting Jan ... She believes the series will draw listeners into Muhammad Ali's world, fusing original music, sound design and poetry ... Credit. AP ... AP.
The prestigious poetry award holds particular significance for him, having long felt an affinity with TS Eliot... Often described as a “poet’s poet”, Gizzi has long been a major figure in US poetry ... But I realised poetry is the way.
23 on Audible. The series was announced by Mercury Studios and Treefort Media on Friday — the boxer’s 83rd birthday ... She believes the series will draw listeners into Muhammad Ali’s world, fusing original music, sound design and poetry.
The bass guitarist brings a unique sound that "interweaves through various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance" and more.Finally, internet sensations ...
Futurism will hymn the hard new beauty ... Entitled BreakingLines, it centres on what Marinetti called “words in freedom”, the formless, collage-like experimental poetry he invented in his 1912-13 sound and concrete poem Zang Tumb Tuuum ....
Except that it’s not true ... Although the poetry of Job makes it sound as if ostriches engage in poor parenting, their behavior is quite heroic in that they draw the enemy toward themselves and away from the eggs, giving their young a better chance.
As the punk duo revealed in their NMECover, they wanted a “fucking fat” sound on the record that would match their raucous live shows ... Mancunian’s joyful ‘pop poetry’ cuts through the noise Bdrmm, ‘Microtonic’ (February 28, Rock Action).
Springfield News-Sun
18 Jan 2025
Springfield News-Sun
18 Jan 2025