** Edition of 250 copies, includes gatefold 12" insert with score, and printed inner sleeve. ** Sound Poem in six movements, recorded in Torino, 1976. Arrigo Lora-Totino (Torino, Italia, 1928) is a poet, a performer, a writer, an artist and a publisher. Both a major pioneer in European concrete and sound poetry and a key figure in Italian experimental poetry. Author of numerous essays on visual and sound poetry, Totino was a man of extreme inventiveness. He has developed the Idrornegafono, a rotating horn allowing a projection of the speaker's voice in a 360 degree circle; or the hydromegaphone used in a series of Liquid poems in which the voice is sounded through water.
Performed by Laura Santiano, Sergio Cena and Arrigo-Totino. Recorded in Torino at S.I.E. Studio di Informazione Estetica, 1976. Mastered from the original tapes by Giuseppe Ielasi. Lacquer cut by SST, Frankfurt am Main. Inner sleeve picture of the performance "Alla Cieca" by F. Carghetti (Milano, Teatro Out-Off, 1978). Pictures of the the tape edition (S Press, 1978) by Cosimo Rosa. First volume in a series of sound poetry coordinated by Luca Garino. Thanks to Luciana "Lou" Braghin for the precious help. In memoriam Giuliano Zosi (1940-2016).
