Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was a poet, painter, filmmaker, independent publisher, and cultural organizer who in the 1950s began using early recording systems to produce a wide range of works based on the manipulation of the human voice.

Works

• On UbuWeb

Publications

• Poésie sonore internationale, intro. William Burroughs, Paris: J.-M. Place, 1979, 309 pp. (French)

Interviews

• Nicholas Zurbrugg, "Electronic Arts in Australia", Continuum 8:1, 1992, pp 129-132. Interview with Henri Chopin. (English)

Literature

• Michael Lentz, "'Musik? Poesie? Eigentlich …': Lautmusik/Poesie nach 1945", Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 157:2, Mar-Apr 1996, pp 47–55. (German)

• Nicholas Zurbrugg, "Programming Paradise: Haraldo de Campos, Concrete Poetry, and the Postmodern Multimedia Avant-Garde", in Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, eds. Brandon LaBelle and Christof Migone, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies, 2001, pp 7–35. (English)

• Andrew Norris, "Projections of the Pulseless Body: Don van Vliet and Henri Chopin", Chapter & Verse 3, Spring 2005. (English)

• Reinhard Oehlschlägel, "Henri Chopin gestorben", MusikTexte 116, Feb 2008, p 87. (German)

• Cédric Jamet, "Limitless Voice(s), Intensive Bodies: Henri Chopin's Poetics of Expansion", Mosaic 42:2, Jun 2009, pp 135–151. (English)

• Marc Matter, "Revue OU Disque" (Editorial), Fabrikzeitung 298, Feb 2014, pp 2–3.

• Jack Patterson, "Henri Chopin: From the Paper Civilization to the Electronic Age", Resonance 3:4, Dec 2022, pp 344–363. (English)

Links

• https://www.postwarcultureatbeinecke.org/henri-chopin-and-ou
• http://soundpoetryedicionesdelcementerio.blogspot.com/2013/12/revista-ou-1964-1973.html
• http://www.centre.ch/en/from-concrete-to-liquid-to-spoken-worlds-to-the-word
• Wikipedia