Lily Greenham
Lingual Music (2CD)
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Double CD, comes with 12 page booklet. Britain's best-known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it's hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the '60s and '70s. It's equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. Lily Greenham was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe, she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Nearly all of her own writings and compositions date from after her arrival in London, but prior to her arrival in London she had been involved in two major European art movements. In the late '50s she had been an active member of the early Wienner Gruppe, performing in their wild experimental theater works and reciting the new poetry of young artists like Gerhard Rühm, Konrad Bayer and A.C. Hartmann, but before the Wienner Gruppe had established itself as the important art movement it was to become, she had moved on and changed her working practice. In 1964, she was back in Paris for a second time, but this time she was working as a visual artist specializing in optical art. She was soon directly involved in group shows with the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel. For the second time, she was at the center of an emerging art movement that was exploring new ground, but predictably enough, she moved on. Once in London, she began to record her own text-based compositions that used a mixture of sound poetry techniques, electronics and multi-tracking. The term "lingual music" that she coined for her compositions refers to her technique of using tape loops of text to create complex and dense musical structures. Her most well-known composition in this style is "Relativity," which was made in 1974 in collaboration with the Radiophonic Workshop at the BBC. She also worked with quite a few musicians, both via the early LMC network in London, but also on an international scene. A list of musicians she worked with includes John Tchicai, Wolfgang Dauner, Bob Downes, Barry Guy, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley and Peter Cusack. This 2CD set compiles a wide variety of her own work, including live solo performances, film soundtrack pieces, as well as many tape pieces. There are also examples of her performing works by Cobbing, Rühm and other sound poets, as well as recordings of her work with Bob Downes Open Music. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1984.
Format
Comes with 12 page booklet.
1-1 - earliest unreleased tape; recorded in London.
1-2 - realized by the poet in own studio (1975)
1-3 - based on 2 filtered words (1982-85)
1-4 - from Tune in to Reality (1973); rhythmic accentuations (in Danish)
1-5 - from Tune in to Reality (1973); etymological associative development (in Spanish)
1-6 - from Tune in to Reality (1973)
1-7 - soundtrack (1984); no further information available
1-8 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976)
1-9 - from Tune in to Reality (1973)
1-10 - semantic play in several dimensions (in English) (1973)
1-11 - realized by the poet in own studio (1975-76); French version of 'Traffic'
1-12 - date unknown
1-13 - no information available (1973)
1-14 - no information available
1-15 - no information available
1-16 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976)
1-17 - soundtrack to the 16mm b/w film by Irm and Ed Sommer (1972)
1-18 - date unknown
1-19 - date unknown; Synthi triggered by voice (using text from 'Circulation' as a starting point)
1-20 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976)
2-1 - earliest unreleased tape; recorded in London
2-2 - date unknown
2-3 - Radio Studio Zürich (1974)
2-5 - no information available (1973)
2-6 - from Tune in to Reality (1973); generated by the word (in Spanish)
2-7 - date unknown
2-8 - date unknown
2-9 - realized at the Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmiths' College, University of London (1975)
2-11 - no information available
2-13 - tape piece for marine mammals, plastic string, water, chinese gong, mandolin, metal metal and electric guitar (1978-79)
2-14 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976)
2-15 - electro-acoustic workshop piece for 6 voices in stereo (1974); realised at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
2-16 - no information available
2-17 - no information available
2-19 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976)
Production details for some of the pieces on this CD have been untraceable, but the recordings have been included to give a fuller retrospective of the work.
Special thanks are duo the following people
Michael Parsons
Hugh & Pam Davies
Max Eastley
Peter Greenham
Thanks also to
Syngen Brown
Book Works, London - front cover letterpress print
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
William English
This CD and the [url=http://www.discogs.com/release/912205]Daphne Oram release[/url] are dedicated to the memory of Hugh Davies, without whom neither of these projects would have begun.
© Paradigm Discs 2007
made in the UK
Release notes
Comes with 12 page booklet. 1-1 - earliest unreleased tape; recorded in London. 1-2 - realized by the poet in own studio (1975) 1-3 - based on 2 filtered words (1982-85) 1-4 - from Tune in to Reality (1973); rhythmic accentuations (in Danish) 1-5 - from Tune in to Reality (1973); etymological associative development (in Spanish) 1-6 - from Tune in to Reality (1973) 1-7 - soundtrack (1984); no further information available 1-8 - live at Salle Gaveau in Paris (1-12-1976) 1-9 - from…
| 1-1 | ABC In Sound | 2:35 | |
| 1-2 | 7 Consonants In Space | 3:26 | |
| 1-3 | Polar Polaris | 8:51 | |
| 1-4 | Tillid | 1:34 | |
| 1-5 | Autor | 1:00 | |
| 1-6 | Outsider | 2:15 | |
| 1-7 | Borges | 10:15 | |
| 1-8 | Capital | 0:58 | |
| 1-9 | Elastic Collision | 0:37 | |
| 1-10 | Experience | 2:10 | |
| 1-11 | Circulation | 9:51 | |
| 1-12 | French Persian Cats | 1:23 | |
| 1-13 | Ona | 0:50 | |
| 1-14 | Rrr | 2:31 | |
| 1-15 | Pre-Eminence | 7:49 | |
| 1-16 | Hocus Pocus | 2:19 | |
| 1-17 | Gesichter/Visages (Excerpt) | 3:49 | |
| 1-18 | Musica | 1:48 | |
| 1-19 | Percussion=Voice | 3:54 | |
| 1-20 | Improvisation | 1:16 | |
| 2-1 | Unknown Title | 2:14 | |
| 2-2 | Cherokee | 1:28 | |
| 2-3 | Lichtgeschwindigkeit | 6:00 | |
| 2-4 | Circulation (Extended Element) | 5:51 | |
| 2-5 | Friction | 1:27 | |
| 2-6 | Movimiento | 4:32 | |
| 2-7 | Hymn To Lesbians | 0:56 | |
| 2-8 | Sino | 1:17 | |
| 2-9 | Traffic | 10:31 | |
| 2-10 | Tillid | 1:12 | |
| 2-11 | Tops | 0:53 | |
| 2-12 | Trykfejl | 0:16 | |
| 2-13 | Seascape | 7:58 | |
| 2-14 | Underground | 2:57 | |
| 2-15 | Relativity | 8:13 | |
| 2-16 | Untitled Studio Experiment | 1:32 | |
| 2-17 | Polaris Supermix | 6:33 | |
| 2-18 | Gebet | 0:46 | |
| 2-19 | End Of Concert | 1:13 |
- Lily Greenham
- Artwork, Liner Notes
- Michael Parsons
- Liner Notes
- André Morain
- Photography By
- Clive Graham
- Producer [Production], Design
- Syngen Brown
- Transferred By [Transfer Engineer]
