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BILL BISSETT
Founder of blewointmentpress and author of numberless books, Bissett was a pioneer of
sound poetry in Canada in the early sixties developing his single and multi-voice chants.
Le Solei I describes him as the first truly revolutionary poet in Canada. Has appeared
frequently at international festivals, most recently at the Festival of Sound and Syntax in
Glasgow. His text-sound visual scores have been exhibited in Edmonton, Brussels, Paris,
Rio de Janiero, Toronto and London. Films: Strange Grey Day This (CBC) ; In Search of
Innocence (NFB) ; Poets of the Late Sixties (with bpNichol and Phyllis Webb) and Mask of
Which Avenger. Records : Awake in the Red Desert (Talonbooks see/heer production);
Medicine My Mouths on Fire (Oberon Press). Latest publications include: Nobody Owns
the Earth, Pass th Food Release th Spirit Book, Space Travl, Living with th Vishyun,
Stardust, Plutonium Missing, Pomes forYoshi.
LARS-GUNNAR BODIN
Born 1935 Bodin has, besides his text-sound compositions, built a reputation as a com ­
poser of mainly electronic music. He has also worked as a painter and creator of
intermedia works. Bodin 's first text-sound compositions date from 1963/ 64 and he has
long been an active member of Fylkingen's Group for Linguistic Arts. Bodin has made
extensive use in his text-sound compositions of the metaphor of the 'cyborg' (cybernetic
organisms). His work is described by fellow text-sound composer Bengt-Emil Johnson in
the following terms: 'Bodin is the text-sound composer who has gone farthest in the
matter of arranging voices electro-acoustically- often to such a high degree, that the
dimension of meaning has become completely destroyed or reduced to rhythmic or
dynamic courses which resemble those of speech- and in combining these with pure
electronic sound.'
HE NRI CHOPIN
Born 1922 in Paris. In 1943 deported as a forced labourer and later interned in camps in
Czechoslovakia and Germany. 1945 Soviet Union. Returned to France to find his family
had been exterminated. Joined the military serving in Indochina, returned to Paris sick
and 'surtout ant)tout'. His earliest preserved writings are poems of the resistance written
during his internment in Czechoslovakia. He is the self styled and publicly acclaimed
originator of 'poesie sonore'. His collections of poems include Signes 1957, Chant de Nuit
1957, Presence 1957, L'Arriviste 1958, La Peur 1959. Edited the influential magazine
Cinq uieme Saison and later OU Magazine, one of the most important international .
outlets for the most significant audio and visual poetry of the 1950s and 60s. Many of h1s
own audiopoems, including Vibrespace, La Fusee lnterplanetaire, lndicatif 1, L'Energie
du Sommeil and Sol Air have been released in the OU series, whilst New Departure, La
Peur No. 1, and Pluralite 1.1.1.1. are available under the collective title Audio poems frorr
Tangent Records.
Both Sol Air and Vibrespace formed the nuclei of experimental ballets, and the film
version of L'Energie du Sommeil was awarded the Prix Anton in Artaud in 1966.
An indefatigable manifestator, he has organized more than 30 exhibitions of objective,
text-sound and visual poetry, and his critical writings have been widely published.
He is currently completing a history of sound poetry.
SVANTE BODIN
Born Sweden. A member of Fylkingen's Group for Linguistic Arts. He has been involved in
text sound composition since the first Swedish experiments in the sixties. Bodin's work
illustrates the same technological sophistication and complexity as the rest of the Fylkingen
group, but his use of computer units to scramble and transform textual material is
particularly noteworthy. His piece Transition to Majorana Space is perhaps the best
example.
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