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| august sander, image from one of Hausmann's live Opto phonetic poems |
this clip, although recorded in 1946, was a poem from Hausmann's 1918 piece.
Working at Der Sterm, he got a chance to experience Futurist poetry which possibly played a big role in his direction towards these sound-poems. He smashed up languages, isolated syllables, re arranged letters, words, sounds, exclamations in different and absurd ways, almost like a new language of sound, but without meaning. Hausmann created a new, un-familiar and strange accoustic experience for listeners.
He pushed these sound-poems further by creating what is known as Opto phonetic poster poems. Hausmann printed the text from these poems on large scale paper. He gave his sound a visual form.
His most famous poster poem is "fmsbwtozaupggiv-..?mu". created in 1918, and recited at a Prague Dadda soiree in 1921. It is two lines of letters and punctuations, printed and spoken to create a new sound and experience.
Hausmann's famous Opto phonetic poster poem
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