VA text sound compositions 7 LP 1970 avant fluxus electronic experimental gysin

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VVAA "Text-Sound Compositions 7: A Stockholm Festival" LP privately issued by Sveriges Radio (RELP 1103) in Sweden, 1970. ****** Rec:m- / Cov:vg+++ ****** Last chapter of the very obscure and essential Sveriges Radio LP series documenting experimental electronic poetry. "Text-Sound Compositions 7" includes the best track ever issued by Franz Mon tilted "Blaiberg Funeral", kind of improvised acoustic pantomime organized through montage techniques and electroacoustic transformations. Also on Side 1 is Bob Cobbing "As Easy". The main materials of this track are bird songs and human voices transformed into bird-like sounds. On Side 2 the breath-taking "Far out" by Arne Mellnas, a portrait of Laura Nyro through distorted and electronically modified sounds of the American jazz singer pre-dating Kosugi's East Bionic Orchestra. Side 2 also features 2 tracks by Ilmar Laaban as well as the always surprising master of sonic elegance Bernard Heidsieck with "Poesie Action. Qui Je Suis?". Fylkingen Records in collaboration with the Swedish Radio released a series of LP records with text-sound compositions between the years of 1968-77. All of these were documentations of the international festival Text-Sound Compositions A Stockholm Festival, which Fylkingen presented in Stockholm several times during these years. Most of the LPs were only pressed in batches of about 400-500 records, and most of the LPs sold out during the festivals. The term text-sound composition was coined in 1967 in Sweden by the composers/writers Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnsson, and was meant to serve to name a genre that was a vital art form in the no man's land between sound, poetry, and music. Text-sound compositions had influences from previous modernistic waves such as futurism, dadaism, lettrism, etc., but perhaps the most important influence was the Swedish poet and visual artist Öyvind Fahlström, who had just over a decade earlier coined the term "concrete poetry". The term concrete poetry related to Pierre Schaeffer's concrete music, and it is somewhere between concrete poetry and concrete music that text-sound compositions appear. The birth of the electronic music studio and concrete music's idea that every sound can be freed from its original context and given a new meaning when it is reworked and put together with other sounds in the electronic music studio became the catharsis for text-sound composition. In the electronic music studio, voice and language sounds can be broken down, unleashed, and then fused together to become a poetry that had never been heard before. Certain text-sound composers would come to work only with pure lingual sounds, but most eventually came to integrate lingual sounds with other sounds, both concrete and electronic. ****** Liner notes in English and Swedish. ****** Some minimal sleeve wear. Seams and spine in perfect conditions. ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare LP and K7 editions in the coming weeks. Next auction: Tape culture… Power Electronics and Mail Art cassettes by M.B., Die Form, Broken Flag, The Pump, Neo Zelanda… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.