Christian Bök

Terrific performance by Christian Bök. His “reading” of a Hugo Ball poem reminds me of the overtones of Inuit Throat Singing…

From ubuweb:

In this seven-minute sound poetry tutorial, Christian Bök takes the most difficult things and makes them pleasurable and completely understandable. Produced by Curtis Fox for the Poetry Foundation, Curtis tries — and botches — a snippet of sound poetry. He then hands the mic over to Christian who makes it soar. Bök then goes on to precisely explain the piece and its historic context. I can’t imagine anything better to use as a teaching aid to explain and demonstrate this art form.

Direct link to audio:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/download-file?file=/audio/StopMakingSense_PoetryOffTheShelf050409.mp3

From the Poetry Foundation

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/audioitem.html?id=1608