Archives
UbuWeb: a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts. Sound poems are plentiful; also visual poems, films, and other difficult to classify items.
PennSound: an archive of readings and performances maintained at the University of Pennsylvania.
Electronic Poetry Center: an archive of documents, readings, and performances maintained at the University of Pennsylvania and overlapping (and interconnected) with PennSound.
Poets/Poems/Performances
Laurie Anderson. A multimedia artist whose performances often distend language in fascinating ways, e.g. her 1982 Superman.
Mark Applebaum. Aphasia. Performed here by Michael Compitello. Acousmatic sound? Or not? Cf. the McGurk Effect.
Caroline Bergvall. A sound artist who often works with Middle and Old English.
Jaap Blonk. Dutch poet, performer, sound artist, a virtuoso performer of the Ursonate and Hugo Ball‘s Dada poems, among other adventures.
Susan Howe / David Grubbs. Poet and musician, their collaborations include Frolic Architecture.
Nina Katchadourian. A wry and inventive, and often funny, artist in many media; our Amazing Sound of the Week is stolen from her sound course at Gallatin.
Alvin Lucier. An experimental composer and sound artist, famous for his piece “I Am Sitting in a Room.”
Kurt Schwitters. See especially his Ursonate (in seven versions curated by Kenny Goldsmith; NB that the authenticity of the 1932 recording is disputed)
