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the "pure joyful nonsense" of creating sound poetry
author:
denisa mirena piscu, university bucarest, 2009
the sound poem "huizzi", which is a piece for three voices and two choruses, has no semantic meaning and represents, according to ide, “pure joyful nonsense”. the sounding of the group of consonants and vowels may be alpine, in the broader sense of the word (typical for the languages in the alps area: austrian, swiss, bavarian, slovenian or italian), but besides this, the author’s intention was just to find a “playful way of creating a rhythm like a beat”.
the most interesting thing about its structure is the rhythmical pattern, which is the atypical 9-4 meter (the common rhythm would be either 4-4 or 8-4), and because of this, ide confesses to have failed in reproducing this poem some years later. another interesting thing is the score which accompanies the poem, designed like a table with five columns – correspondent to the three voices and two choruses - and eight (double) rows, which mark the eight sections of the poem. the score was made after the recording of the poem and the sounds were transcribed in the ipa – international phonetic alphabet.
it is not only graphems and phonems - remains of the word - that ide’s poems consist of. he is not only interested in language as such, language as a finite product, but also in all the additional processes that create it: “i was always wondering where language comes from? it is not only through the brains, we have to breath, there is the rhythm of the heart beat beneath; as chopin says, the whole body – flesh, skin etc. is also producing sounds… the question is: is this language?” for ide, in any case, language means, first of all, “using the human voice” – and not necessarily transmitting concepts.
(denisa mirena piscu, literary theorist, on ide's poem "huizzi", from the album "30 rufe" ("30 callings"), master thesis on "sound poetry - three sound poets trying to escape the abusive domination of word: henri chopin, sainkho namtchylak, christian ide hintze", written in english language. university of bucarest, rumania, february 2009)
the sound poem "huizzi", which is a piece for three voices and two choruses, has no semantic meaning and represents, according to ide, “pure joyful nonsense”. the sounding of the group of consonants and vowels may be alpine, in the broader sense of the word (typical for the languages in the alps area: austrian, swiss, bavarian, slovenian or italian), but besides this, the author’s intention was just to find a “playful way of creating a rhythm like a beat”.
the most interesting thing about its structure is the rhythmical pattern, which is the atypical 9-4 meter (the common rhythm would be either 4-4 or 8-4), and because of this, ide confesses to have failed in reproducing this poem some years later. another interesting thing is the score which accompanies the poem, designed like a table with five columns – correspondent to the three voices and two choruses - and eight (double) rows, which mark the eight sections of the poem. the score was made after the recording of the poem and the sounds were transcribed in the ipa – international phonetic alphabet.
it is not only graphems and phonems - remains of the word - that ide’s poems consist of. he is not only interested in language as such, language as a finite product, but also in all the additional processes that create it: “i was always wondering where language comes from? it is not only through the brains, we have to breath, there is the rhythm of the heart beat beneath; as chopin says, the whole body – flesh, skin etc. is also producing sounds… the question is: is this language?” for ide, in any case, language means, first of all, “using the human voice” – and not necessarily transmitting concepts.
(denisa mirena piscu, literary theorist, on ide's poem "huizzi", from the album "30 rufe" ("30 callings"), master thesis on "sound poetry - three sound poets trying to escape the abusive domination of word: henri chopin, sainkho namtchylak, christian ide hintze", written in english language. university of bucarest, rumania, february 2009)