#isou

[morikoshi]

WELL... i mean...

[morikoshi]

hahaha I love them

[nxvxs00s]

[the-cricket-chirps]

Isidore Isou, 436, 1960

[canarycurse]

why the quotation marks?

[less-ismore]

Isidore Isou, Composition lettriste, 1961.

[stroccospoetry]

Although Gil J Wolman's seminal sound work has been largely overlooked, it was a precursor of sound poetry and is one of the key elements of Lettrist poetry....

Some wonderful recordings of the Lettrists here! (Does anyone know where to find that 1961 recording of Isou, research on polyautomatism?) PS on Polyautomatism: “The purpose of polyautomatism was theoretically to offer a larger scope of randomisation than Dada chance methods, Surrealistic au-tomatic writing and free association, and other types of spontaneous techni-ques, such as Jackson Pollock's dripping. One could improvise by choosing randomly the instruments and/or the elements and/or the rhythms and/or the subjects of the work, whereas a nonanalytical approach of  spontaneous or random expression would lead to a smaller number of solutions. Even if  one did not want to be "rational," polyautomatism could submit a richer array of alternatives to irrationality. “  from Visible Language, “Lettrisme Into the Present” (1983)

[a-lesnikova]