Kurt Schwitters (b. 1887) was an exceptionally gifted reciter and lecturer - although less as someone who forms language than as someone who deforms it. As an artist-clown, the bourgeois Schwitters was capable of giving free rein to his anarchistic and chaotic tendencies. Tearing, bending, covering, overpainting: what Schwitters said about his "Merz painting" can be applied as a deforming and deformulating in the poems published during the same period, among others the "Ursonate". As a performing artist he took the goals of the modern architect, "light, air, and sun," and added another, laughter: "Merz is the smile at the graveside and the seriousness at amusing events." The members of the ensemble Die Schwindlinge (founded in 1985) have, above all, presented programs with Kurt Schwitters and hits of the 1920s to 1940s.

Tracklist:

what a b what a b what a beauty, phonetic poem
Ribble Bobble Pimlico, phonetic poem
From dawn to dark, phonetic poem
Anna Blume, phonetic poem, An
Groáe Liebe, phonetic poem
Gedicht aus Norwegen fr Helma, phonetic poem
Norge, phonetic poem
Die Buchfhrung beim kleinen Handwerder, phonetic poem
bii bll ree, phonetic poem
drei, phonetic poem dynamic version
bii bill, phonetic poem (3 versions)
bel au hau phonetic poem (2 versions)
Altes Lautgedicht, phonetic poem
Der Floh im Ohr, phonetic poem
Wenn mir einer sagte, phonetic poem
Es waren einmal sieben Damen, phonetic poem
Sie puppt mit Puppen, phonetic poem
Keine Rose, phonetic poem
Banalit„ten aus dem Chinesischen, phonetic poem
Die zute Tute, phonetic poem
boo, phonetic poem
naa, phonetic poem (2 versions)
Doof, phonetic poem (3 versions)
Die Wut des Niesens, phonetic poem
Sonate in Urlauten: Einleitung und erster Teil
Sonate in Urlauten: Zweiter Teil: Largo
Sonate in Urlauten: Dritter Teil: Scherzo
Sonate in Urlauten: Vierter Teil: Presto
drei, phonetic poem metronome version

UPC: 4010228631326
Label: Wergo Germany
Release Date: 1.11.05
Format: CD

Kurt Schwitters - What a Beauty / Lautgedichte / Ursonate (CD)