Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...

Scope and Contents British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...

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Chopin describes how he produced a typewriter poem for every day of the year 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was composed at the Sackner Archive during a sound poetry and typewriterart as a performance to all attendees by Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is aqua. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is brown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is tan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is brown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The central panel with an identical inscription to other prints of the series is black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of the compact disc case contains a rounded, typewriter poem print formed by heavy overtyping of the letter "b" in its upper half and the letter "c" in its lower half. In its upper half, Chopin has typed a line of text, "B.C.- vous pour une musique neuve." The postcards are computer images of Henri Chopin's voice. In the brochure, Battier explains how audiopoems become music through the computer. He comments: "I want to invent the sound poet's voice as music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photograph depicts a double exposure of the sound poet, Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The ten typewriter images in this book are presented in gray and white scale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The seven publishers comprising the group that exhibited the books in this show were Granary Books, Guy Schraenen editeur, Boekie Woekie, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, Edition Hundertmark, Stop Over Press, Rainer Verlag and Wiens Verlag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.