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[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Otryvok_iz_Dosok_sudby.jpg|thumb|258px|''Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by"'', [1922], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3195 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Otryvok_iz_Dosok_sudby.jpg|thumb|258px|''Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by"'', [1922], [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3195 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Zangezi.jpg|thumb|258px|''Zangezi'', 1922, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3191 JPG].]]
 
[[Image:Khlebnikov_Velimir_Zangezi.jpg|thumb|258px|''Zangezi'', 1922, [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/3191 JPG].]]
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==Khlebnikov and the radio==
 
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''This section is sourced from Miguel Molina Alarcón, ''[[Symphony of Sirens|Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942)]]'', London: ReR Megacorp, 2008, pp 21-22.''
 
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A key artist in Russian cubo-futurism, he was constantly searching by way of
 
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verbal experimentation, writing toward the utopia of a "stellar" universal language.
 
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"The Radio of the Future" is an essay written at the end of his life anticipating the
 
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possibilities of the new radiophonic medium (radio first started broadcasting in Russia
 
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in 1922). He conceives radio as a "central tree consciousness" or "a great wizard and
 
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sorcerer" which, with its waves, would "unite all mankind". He saw the radio station as
 
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"a spider's web of lines" or "the flight of birds in springtime" which reveal the "news
 
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from the life of the spirit". In the hands of artists, this new medium would transport and
 
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project ideas instantly to the "unknown shores" of all humanity. Khlebnikov imagined
 
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that they could make "Radio-Books", "Radio Reading-Walls", "Radio-auditoriums" ("a
 
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concert stretching from Vladivostok to the Baltic"), "Radio and Art Exhibits", "Radio
 
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Screens" and "Radio Clubs"... where you could see and hear everything from the
 
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tiniest sound of nature to major events in the "exciting life" of cities. He understood that
 
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with this there would be a communication between the artist's "soul" and the people:
 
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"the artist has cast a spell over his land; he has given his country the singing of the sea
 
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and the whistling of the wind. The poorest house in the smallest town is filled with divine
 
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whistlings and all the sweet delights of sound." This capacity of Radio led him to see
 
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it as "The Great Sorcerer",
 
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capable of transmitting
 
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even "the sense of taste";
 
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people would drink water
 
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feeling that they were
 
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drinking wine; or smell: a
 
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Radio station "would give"
 
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the nation, for example,
 
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"the odour of snow" in the
 
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middle of spring. It would
 
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also be a "Doctor without
 
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medicine"
 
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curing
 
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from
 
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a distance by means of
 
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"hypnotic suggestion". And
 
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Radio could also transmit
 
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sounds to facilitate the
 
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work of the harvest and
 
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construction by emitting
 
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certain musical notes, "la"
 
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and "ti", which would help
 
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"increase muscular capacity" in the workers. Another of the Radio's great qualities would
 
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be the organization of popular education through radiophonic classes and lectures. But
 
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Khlebnikov also warned that all this potential could be interrupted if a Radio station were
 
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damaged. That would generate "a mental blackout over the entire country". Thus it was
 
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necessary to protect the Radio Station with the word "Danger". In this text, Khlebnikov
 
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anticipates the potential of Mass Media and its capacity for the globalization of ideas and
 
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opinion - although this "universal soul" was seen by him as positive, he already suspected
 
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some of its dangers. This text was possibly written in around 1921 in Pitigorsk, when
 
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Khlebnikov was working temporarily as a watchman in a telegraph agency, spending
 
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the long nights writing.
 
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==

Revision as of 11:08, 6 September 2015


Khlebnikov in 1916. [1]
Born November 9, 1885(1885-11-09)
Maloderbetovsky ulus, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire (now Malye Derbety, Kalmykia
Died June 28, 1922(1922-06-28) (aged 36)
Santalovo, Kresttsy county, Novgorod Governorate, Soviet Union
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Velimir Khlebnikov [Велимир Хлебников; born Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, Виктор Владимирович Хлебников; 1885-1922), was a writer, sketcher and poet, also interested in mathematics, history, and mythology.

Chronology

Based on chronology in Khlebnikov, The King of Time, ed. Charlotte Douglas, 1985, pp 239-247.

  • 9 Nov 1885: K. born in village of Malye Derbety, ca. 80 km south of Volgograd.
  • 1903: Graduates from Kazan gymnasium; enters university.
  • 1908: Sends early poems to Ivanov. Moves to Petersburg; enters university.
  • 1909: Meets Kamensky. Publishes first literary piece.
  • 1910: Plans trip to Montenegro. Meets Burliuk and Matyushin. Breaks with Ivanov and Symbolists. "Incantation by Laughter" published in Kulbin's Impressionists' Studio [Студия импрессионистов]. The collection A Jam for Judges [Садок Судей] published; includes "O Garden of Animals!".
  • 1911: Meets Mayakovsky. Working on theory of history.
  • 1912: Visits Burliuk estate in southern Russia. A Game in Hell [Игра в аду] by K. and Kruchenykh. Contributes to A Slap in the Face of Public Taste [Пощёчина общественному вкусу]. The World in Reverse [Мирсконца] by K. and Kruchenykh.
  • 1913: Contributes to A Jam for Judges II [Садок Судей II]. Mrs. Laneen. "Usa-Gali". "Nikolai". "The Word as Such" [Слово как таковое]. "The Letter as Such".
  • 1914: Breaks with Burliuk over Marinetti. Selections of Poems [Изборник стихов]. Creations [Творения].
  • 1915: Writes "K" (pub. 1916).
  • 1916: Society of 317 (Presidents of Planet Earth) founded. Drafted into army. Stationed near Saratov.
  • 1917: Receives military furlough. In Kharkiv, writes "An Appeal by the Presidents of Planet Earth". In Moscow and Petrograd; with Tatlin plans program of 3 plays.
  • 1918: Works for newspapers in Nizhny Novgorod. Works for newspaper in Astrakhan; writes "October on the Neva".
  • 1919: Spends early spring in Moscow; contributes "The Head of the Universe" and "To the Artists of the World" to proposed collection, International of the Arts. In military hospital with typhus.
  • 1920: In Kharkiv, after release from hospital. Arrives in Baku; works for newspaper and cultural-educational section of Volga-Caspian fleet. In Baku invents Laws of Time.
  • 1921: Sails from Baku to Enzeli, Persia. Returns to Russia; goes to Piatigorsk. Returns to Moscow.
  • 1922: Finishes Zangezi. Excerpts from the Tables of Destiny [Отрывок из "Досок судьбы"] published. Zangezi [Зангези] printed. 28 June: K. dies in village of Santalovo.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Igra v adu, 1912, IA.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Mirskontsa, 1912, IA.
Kruchenykh, Khlebnikov, Slovo kak takovoe, 1913, IA.
Izbornik stikhov, 1914, JPG.
Tvoreniya 1, 1914, JPG.
Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by", [1922], JPG.
Zangezi, 1922, JPG.

Works

  • Khlebnikov, et al., Sadok sudey [Садок Судей], St Petersburg: Zhuravl', Apr 1910, 131 pp, IA. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Igra v adu [Игра в аду], Moscow, 1912.
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Poshechina obshestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i [Пощёчина общественному вкусу. В защиту свободного искусства: Стихи, проза, статьи], Moscow: Georgy L. Kuzmin, Moscow, Dec 1912, 114 pp. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Mirskontsa [Мирсконца], [Moscow]: [Kuzmin & Dolinsky], 1912, 43 pp. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Sadok sudey II [Садок Судей II], 1913, WS-RU. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Bukh liesinnyi [Бух лесинный], St Petersburg: EUY, [1913], [23] pp. [2]
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Troe, St Petersburg: Zhuravl', 1913, 52 pp. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh, Slovo kak takovoe [Слово как таковое], [Moscow]: [EUY], 1913. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Zatychka, sbornik: risunki, stikhi, Moscow: Gileya, 1913, 21 pp. (Russian)
  • Vremya mera ira [Время мера мира], Petrograd, 1916. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Chetyre stitsy. Sbornik stikhov [Четыре птицы. Сборник стихов], Moscow: К., 1916. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Vremennik [Временник], Moscow: B. i., 1917. (Russian)
  • with Aleksei Kruchenykh and Tatiana Tolstaya, Mir i ostalnoe, Baku, 1920, 93 pp. (Russian)
  • Khlebnikov, et al., Liren [Лирень], V.m., 1920, 40 pp. (Russian)
  • Noch' v okope [Ночь в окопе], Moscow: Imazhinisty, 1921. (Russian)
  • Otryvok iz "Dosok sud'by" [Отрывок из "Досок судьбы"], [Мoscow], [1922]. (Russian)
  • Zangezi [Зангези], Moscow, 1922. (Russian)
  • Zapisnaya knizhka [Записная книжка], ed. A. Kruchenykh, Moscow: Vserossiyskiy soyuz poetov, 1925, 30 pp. (Russian)
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Collected writings

in Russian
  • Izbrannye stikhotvoreniya [Избранные стихотворения], ed. N. Stepanov, Moscow: Sov. pisatel, 1936, 507 pp. (Russian)
  • Sobranie proizvedeniy [Собрание произведений], 5 vols., ed. N.L. Stepanov, Leningrad: Izd-vo pisateley v Leningrade, 1928-33, RSL/1, RSL/2, PDF/3, RSL/3, PDF/4, RSL/4, RSL/5. (Russian)
  • Tvoreniya [Творения], Moscow, 1986. (Russian)
in English

Literature

  • Vladimir Mayakovsky, "V.V. Khlebnikov" [В.В. Хлебников], Krasnaya nov [Красная новь] 4, Moscow, 1922, pp 303-306. (Russian)
  • D. Kozlov (Д. Козлов), "Novoe o Velemire Khlebnikove" [Новое о Велемире Хлебникове. (Воспоминания)], Krasnaya nov [Красная новь] 8, Moscow, 1927, pp 177-188. (Russian)

See also

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