FRANCOIS DUFRENE 4-LP BOX HENRI CHOPIN-SOUND POETRY-NWW

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FRANCOIS DUFRENE

 L'OEUVRE DESINTEGRALE 4LP BOXSET 

Alga Marghen

Limited Edition: 350 copies

Necessary sound document from sound poetry pioneer Francois Dufrene. Limited Edition of 350 copies.

Some info on the release:  Necessary limited edition issue, only 350 of these boxsets in existence, released in Italy some years ago by the Alga Marghen label (David Behrman, John Cage, Anima-Sound, Ghedalia Tazartes, Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, Nam June Paik, Hermann Nitsch, Jacques Berrocal, etc.). Early sound poetry experiments dating back to the period 1958-1976.

One of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the nouveau realiste artist Francois dufrene. his work, along with that of Gil j wolman and Brion gysin, was a strong influence for experimental poets like Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and Ake Hodell. Dufrene could be considered the younger of the first generation sound poets. Already in the lettrist group when he was only 16 years old, with his own style marked by an hyper-powerful voice. in 1953, at the age of 23, he became ultra-lettrist, starting his first crirhythms by overpassing the alphabet in the perspective of the physical improvised scream. With the crirhythms sound poetry enters for the first time in the factory of projective sounds. In the beginning Dufrene uses the tape recorder only to document his creations. These recordings show him that through the tape machine his poems could reached deeper and wider creative dynamics. since the mid-1950s the tape-machine becomes for him a poetical and experimental tool and Dufrene fully develops its potentials with stereophonic recordings as well as with the superimposition of his crirhythms. The loudspeakers amplifies sounds while the microphone captures even the most detailed concrete sound produced by his voice. The physical tempest he produces is a real concrete electronic sound attack. Dufrene produced primitive, brutal poems opening the path of vocal sounds to contemporary composers: it's known that Pierre Henry was deeply inspired by Dufrene. the anthology presented here includes 10 crirhythms from different periods dating from 1965 to 1976.

Also included is "osmose-art", a long piece from 1969 divided in two suites where Dufrene superimposes his crirhythms to classical music. A similar technique was applied a few years earlier adding jazz music (specially drum and percussion pieces) to poems marked by strong lettristic esthetic. two of those "lecture-collage" dating from 1965 are presented here, as well as two "comptinuum" from his early on-progress works started in 1958.

François Dufrene also developed unique performances, with live reading of his written text. The most famous is tombeau de pierre larousse, published in 1958. This is a work half way between the written text and the sound poem whose unity is achieved through dufrene performing it. It's a masterpiece of synthesis of active poetry. "eryximaque, suite choreographique au tombeau pierre larusse" is also included in this anthology.

Apart from the crirythmes that Henri Chopin issued on his revue ou disc magazine (the complete ou anthology is available from alga marghen as a 4cd set) and a few short pieces issued on obscure sound poetry anthologies in the end of the 1960's, François Dufrene's work is practically unavailable. this 4lp anthology, conceived by the same author and privately issued as a 3 cassette edition in the mid-1970s, includes only previously unpublished sound works that finally fully documents the creativity of such a radical artist. 

François Dufrêne was a french poet and plastic artist, considered the younger of the first generation sound poets. In 1946 he adhered to Isidore Isou's Mouvement Lettriste and took part in all the manifestations of the movement from 1946 to 1953. In 1953 he created the “Ultralettrisme", a form of electro-acoustic extended vocal technique which he described as crirythme which had no 'score' and existed for recording tape alone. The crirythme explored the voice as a noise source revealing the nonabstracted essence of things much in the tradition of Antonin Artaud's Pour en finir avec le Jugement de Dieu, the brutist orchestras of Dada, and Luigi Russolo's L'arte dei rumori. In the fifties, as plastic artist, his friends were Yves Klein, Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé. For many of his artistic creations he used objects retrieved from the urban context, such as posters or stencils. In 1959 he exposed at "Première Biennale de Paris", in 1960 he was invited to create a "Salle d'Art dit Expérimental" into the "Salon Comparaisons” and gave his contribution (with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Arman, Raymond Hains and Villeglé) to found the “Premier groupe nouveau réaliste”. Dufrêne’s crirythmes were presented at numerous sound poetry festivals and about a dozen were recorded on gramophone records between 1962 and 1975. 

Condition: Vinyls lie in mint condition. This is an unplayed stock copy. Box has some very slight corner bending.

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