General introduction: THE SOUND OF MEANING - (pdf)
Aesthetical Approaches to the Manipulation of Speech Sounds

Part I: LANGUAGE AS MIMESIS

• I.1.- Introduction: Voice in Plato’s Cratylus
• I.2.- Commentary on works:
  • I.2.1.- Trevor Wishart, Red Bird
  • I.2.2.- Charles Dodge, The Waves
  • I.2.3.- Antonin Artaud, Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu
  • I.2.4.- Early contacts between phonetic poetry and electroacoustic media
    • I.2.4.1- Futurism: F. T. Marinetti
    • I.2.4.2- Dadaism: Hugo Ball * and Raoul Hausmann *

 Part II: LANGUAGE AS STRUCTURE

• II.1.- Introduction: Voice in Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics
• II.2.- Commentary on works:
  • II.2.1.- Kurt Schwitters * , Ursonate
  • II.2.2.- John Cage, Writing for the second time  through Finnegans Wake
  • II.2.3.- Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesang der Jünglinge

Part III: LANGUAGE AS GAME

• III.1.- Introduction: Voice in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s * Philosophical Investigations
• III.2.- Commentary on works:
  • III.2.1.- B. A. Zimmermann, Requiem für einen jüngen Dichter
  • III.2.2.- Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hymnen

* quoted Texts PDF

Contents of the CD with 13 short Examples (you can get a copy at EN 323 / F. Hein!!)

THE SOUND OF MEANING

Aesthetical Approaches to the Manipulation of Speech Sounds

Resources in internet

Part I: LANGUAGE AS MIMESIS

·      Trevor Wishart, Red Bird

http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/

http://www.ubu.com/sound/wishart.html

·      Charles Dodge, The Waves

http://www.archive.org/details/SOMCharlesDodge

http://www.last.fm/music/Charles+Dodge

·      Antonin Artaud, Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu

http://www.ubu.com/sound/artaud.html

·      Italian Futurism: F. T. Marinetti, La Battaglia di Adrianopoli

http://www.saltana.org/1/docar/0419.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/marinetti.html

·      Dadaism: Hugo Ball and Raoul Hausmann

http://www.uclm.es/artesonoro/hball/indiceHB.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/ball.html

http://www.ubu.com/sound/hausmann.html

http://www.merzmail.net/fmsbw.htm

Part II: LANGUAGE AS STRUCTURE

·      Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate

http://www.costis.org/x/schwitters/ursonate.htm

http://www.ubu.com/sound/schwitters.html

·      John Cage, Writing for the second time  through Finnegans Wake

http://www.ubu.com/film/cage.html

http://www.ubu.com/historical/cage/index.html

·      Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesang der Jünglinge

http://www.stockhausen.org/tape_loops.html

Part III: LANGUAGE AS GAME

·      B. A. Zimmermann, Requiem für einen jüngen Dichter

http://audiolabo.free.fr/revue1999/content/libretto.pdf

·      Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hymnen

http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco2/Rec/Stockhausen/10.html