ACOUSTIC TYPOGRAPHY
Futurism, Dada
Zaum poetry; invented language resembling infantile babble. Goal: immediate communication of intense feelings.)
Dada sound poetry; language as noise
Theo Van Doesburg (De Stijl)
Published three “letter-sound images” under the pseudonym IK Bonset. “To take away its past it is necessary to renew the alphabet according to its abstract sound valves. This means at the same time the healing of our poetic auditory membranes, which are so weakened that a long-term phono-gymnastics is necessary.” (Undercurrents, The Limits of Language, pg. 193)
Kurt Schwitters
Ursonata; combinations of vowels and consonants are assembled into extended musical form.
Lettrism - Isidore Isou
Proposed a new lexicon for vocal performance in order to galvanise and renew the entire social world.
David Carson
“Worshipping the glitch”