François Dufrêne
François Dufrêne was born in Paris in 1930 and joined Isidore Isou's Lettrist movement in 1946, as a teenager. In 1952 he made Tambours du jugement premier, an "imaginary film" with no screen or celluloid. After breaking with Isou he developed his crirythmes, ultra-lettrist improvisations of cries and breath recorded onto tape without a score. From 1957 he worked alongside Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé on torn posters, turning to their reverse sides; these dessous d'affiches were first shown at the 1959 Paris Biennale. In 1960 he signed the founding declaration of Nouveau Réalisme.
La Noire À Soixante / La Noire À Soixante + Granulométrie (LP)
Original 1968 edition on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series of two amazing works from the early 60's, one using the vocalizations of sound poet Francois Dufrêne. Like all Pierre Henry's output, beautiful music and essential record…
Phonetische Poesie
** 12-page booklet reproducing the original liner notes ** Reissue of the groundbreaking LP from 1971 of Phonetical Poetry / Sound Poetry pieces by the most relevant artists of the last century. Curated by Franz Mon.
Including pieces written by the f…
Cri-Rythmes
Edition of 250. Recital presents a reissue of François Dufrêne's Cri-Rythmes, originally issued in 1977. A remastered vinyl issue of the impossible-to-find cassette by French sound poet Dufrêne (1930-1982), this LP holds tracks not available since th…
Untitled
Another crucial excavatio from the elusive The Balsam Flex legendary catalog is now available again thanks to Jan Van Toorn Slowscan imprint. Balsam Flex was a cassette label run by the artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a…
Avant Marghen Vol. 4
New volume of the Avant Marghen series, an ultra-limited splendid set in a numbered edition of 80 copies. This luxury black boxset edition actually includes the forth group of 7 LPs previously issued for the VocSon series and now sold out. Each indiv…
Ouvre Disintegrale
Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist François Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J. Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong inf…
François Dufrêne
2007 release. François Dufrêne (1930-1982) is one of the leading artists from the post-War European and French art scene. He played a key role in many of the initiatives of Lettrism, Nouveau Réalisme and sound poetry. In François Dufrêne's oeuvre, ar…
Oeuvre Désintégrale
Alga Marghen presents one of the most impressive sound poetry anthologies ever published, introducing you to the sound works of the Nouveau Realiste artist, Francois Dufrene. His work, along with that of Gil J Wolman and Brion Gysin, was a strong inf…