Bernard Heidsieck
Bernard Heidsieck (born 1928) is a French sound poet. He is the former vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and former president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival of sound poetry in 1976 and the event "Rencontres Internationales 1980 de poésie sonore" which took place at Rennes, Havre and at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Bernard Heidsieck (born 1928) is a French sound poet. He is the former vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur in Paris and former president of the Commission Poésie at the Centre National du Livre. He organised the first international festival of sound poetry in 1976 and the event "Rencontres Internationales 1980 de poésie sonore" which took place at Rennes, Havre and at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Derviche / Le Robert
Majestic triple-disc and book from mssr. heidsieck containing a 3+ hour piece from 1978 - the third and final installment in the regular-sized book/cd trilogy of heidsieck’s 70s work (along with “le carrefour” and “canal street.”) again: essential listening for the student of outsider yalp...
Lettre à Brion Gysin
zonked 1974 recording of an extended “sound-letter to brion gysin” by pioneering sound-poet Bernard Heidsieck, here aided on voice by françoise janicot, laurence lacina, ricky stein, and recently unearthed musician ariel kalma (via beta-lactam ring’s reissue of his “osmose” lp) on saxophone.The levels of insanity get pretty damn high on this one (listen to the sound sample!) with un-related sound-events firing off in each of the stereo channels for the duration. Parts echo the spiritual highs of…
Avant Marghen Vol. 1
Lucky find, few copies in - Incredible set of 3 boxes, each with 7LPs in it, from the Alga Marghen archives. These are all previously released LPs, but most have been o/p for many years now. The boxes are limited to a numbered edition of 80 copies each. "The VocSon series might be identified as the starting point of all the Alga Marghen activities. This series, which still continues to present on limited LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments, is mainly dedicated to the doc…