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Gherasim Luca

Théâtre de Bouche (LP)

Label: Holidays Records

Format: LP

Genre: Sound Art

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€19.90
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** Edition of 250 copies on black vinyl, embossed lettering on cover** Ghérasim Luca (Bucarest, 1913 – Paris, 1994) was a Romanian-Jewish poet, co-founder and theorist of the Romanian Surrealist artists group. Harassed in his country, after World War II and a local exile he finally moved to Paris through Israel in 1952. His work on French language - characterized by the stammering effects described by Gilles Deleuze - attains its highest degree of expression during the public reading of his writings thanks to the whole-body work. Théâtre de bouche, recorded on 21 February 1984 at Studio Sofreson by Rémi Goux and originally appeared as a cassette included in a special book edition published in 1984 by Criapl'e (Le Soleil Noir), highlights all axiomatic human torments. This edition, second volume in a series of sound poetry releases coordinated by Luca Garino, comes in a deluxe edition featuring the complete recording of the entire text by the author, and the reproduction of a drypoint drawing by Micheline Catty which was originally included in the limited book edition.

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"Ghérasim Luca was the man who relentlessly pushed language toward its limits, which he transmuted from a mere instrument of representation into an extreme style of intensities. Luca knew how to stammer not just words, but language itself." Gilles Deleuze

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Cat. number: HOL-097
Year: 2016
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Recorded on 21 February 1984 at Studio Sofreson by Rémi Goux. Mastered from the original TDK AD-X 60 tape by Giuseppe Ielasi and Luca Garino. Lacquer cut by SST, Frankfurt am Main. Foldout instert: reproduction of a drypoint drawing by Micheline Catti. Inner sleeve picture by Gilles Ehrmann. Pictures of the tape edition (Criapl'e, 1984)by Cosimo Rosa. Second volume in a series of sound poetry coordinated by Luca Garino. Thanks to Micheline Catti and Bertrand Fillaudeau. © Editions Corti, 1987.

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