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D S H (Dom Sylvester Houédard), 1924-1992

 Person

Found in 1306 Collections and/or Records:

Slash/Dash Summer Winter / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-56378-9999793
Scope and Contents

The words summer, winter, spring and autumn are listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

sliced lurch (060170) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-08656-8829
Scope and Contents

The title, "sliced lurch," was formed with densely packed typed dashes as well Houedard's initials, "dsh" and the date. The image consists of planes typed in red and black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

song from the cosmic typewriter - somantric ballet by dsh for the exploding galaxy (200568 / 200569) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-08617-8789
Scope and Contents

The following is mentioned at the end of thid poem: song 11.b trans from the nahuatl by dsh. Thus stored with other cosmic typewriter pieces in the London talk binder but was not shown there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Sonic Water / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; cummings ee; Morgan E; Gomringer E; Jandl E; Finlay IH., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55333-58854
Scope and Contents

The distribution to others of this work is unknown. The original typed poem, "Sonic Water" is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Specimen (February 7, 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56868-10000232
Scope and Contents

Three collaged statements about Sylvester are collaged on a card, wrapped in plastic and taped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Specimen (February 7, 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56868-10000232
Scope and Contents

Three collaged statements about Sylvester are collaged on a card, wrapped in plastic and taped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[spinning dashes] (040467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56233-9999677
Scope and Contents

The image is created totally with dashes and equal signs in a fan-like configuration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[spinning dashes] (060467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56235-9999680
Scope and Contents

The image is created totally with dashes and equal signs in a fan-like configuration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[spiral] (300367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56219-9999658
Scope and Contents

The image is created totally with slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Spiral of Slashes] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-57650-10000917
Scope and Contents

This work is from John Furnival's scrapbook. It is shaped as an octagon and was folded and pasted into Furnival's book. The typewritings are of a red color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Splash/Slash: One Decision (11/1/68) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55467-9999140
Scope and Contents

This meant to be hung assemblage was made with green colored plastic laminate that incorporated mostly found brief texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Splash/Slash: One Decision (11/1/68) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-53326-59901
Scope and Contents

This meant to be hung assemblage was made with green colored plastic laminate that incorporated mostly found brief texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

splendid weeping (180267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53337-59004
Scope and Contents

This might be considered a prophetic poem about the Wall Street crash of the internet bubble stocks in 2000 since Houedard used the @ symbols along side packed parentheses to evoke weeping for the imagery of this poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Sprechgedichte, Sound Poems, Introduction and Ancestry 2nd Ed. / Jandl, Ernst ; Cobbing, Bob ; Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Carroll L ; Morgenstern C ; Khlebnikov V ; Ball H ; Albert-Birot P ; Hausmann R ; Marinetti FT ; Schwitters K ; Seuphor M ; Lemaitre M ; Wittgenstein L ; Hodell A., 1966

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Identifier: CC-08236-8398
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of the book which was first published in 1965; it is No.15 in the Poets* series. In the introduction, Houedard traces the history of sound poetry through a listing of the chronology of "notable soundpoems" beginning with Lewis Carroll in 1855 and ending with Cobbing in 1965. He also mentions Egyptian hymns 300 B.C. of breath poems consisting of may notes sung to one syllable. Houedard's manuscript for this essay is held by the Sackner Archive. This book was written to accompany Writers Forum Record No.1 by Jandl and Cobbing. One of the poems by Jandl in this book, "time passes," also appears in the manuscript and book of "mai hart...," works also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966