Duchamp Is My Lawyer by Kenneth Goldsmith
Author:Kenneth Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LibrariesForeshadowed, Library
Publisher: Columbia University
Composed over the course of a decade beginning in the mid-1920s, the Ursonate (also known as Sonata in Primeval Sounds or Primitive Sonata) is a classical sonata in four movements, each in a related key, but with unique musical characteristics. The inception of the piece began with a poem by fellow Dadist Raoul Hausmann, “f m s b w t ö z ä u” (1918), which was, as Schwitters recalls, originally nothing more than a type sample for a selection of fonts, which Hausmann called a “literary readymade.”
Hausmann simply made it into a sound poem by freely interpreting the letters. (There is a recording of Hausmann performing it as a part of a suite of Dada sound poems—it takes a mere four seconds to recite.) After hearing Hausmann read it in Prague, Schwitters began on occasion to perform it, calling it “Portrait of Raoul Hausmann.” Because Hausmann was originally from Vienna, Schwitters transcribed the inflection of his accent as
fümms bö wö tää zää uu
pögiff
mü
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