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Chopin mentions the death of his wife, Jean in 1985 "when everything stopped." Also, he adds a visit to Miami in 1985 (gave a performance at the Sackners that is not cited in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology is the first to appear in Russia with such a scope and range of authors. It's purpose is to give Russians a feeling for a new phenomenon of contemporary literature and art; international sound poetry.The Set of 4 CDs represents the sound poetry productions of one hundred and ten poets from twenty-two countries, who currently are working in this area and related [the] audio-art fields. The theoretical base of the anthology includes essays by leading sound poets and researchers of this trend, dedicated both to the issues of the genre and the history of sound poetry development in different countries. This initial enterprise in sound poetry will let the Russian reader/listener trace the ongoing developments in the historical field of artistic goals that the contemporary experimental poets set for themselves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multifaceted artist whose fertile mind and wide range of original ideas were a source of inspiration for artists of the Beat Generation in Paris, as well as to innovative artists and performers such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Keith Haring, and Laurie Anderson in the next generation. Painter, writer, sound poet, tape composer, lyricist, and performance artist, Gysin is remembered particularly for his evocative paintings of the North African desert in the 1950s and his original calligraphic abstractions based on Japanese and Arabic scripts. The chance discovery by Gysin of the cut-up technique (later developed and refined by William S. Burroughs) and the concept of permutated poems gave rise to new and original forms of sound art wordplay, striking not only in print but also in recordings or live performance. Gysin's inventive ideas also extended to the Dreamachine and to collages of text and photographs. This is the first comprehensive publication on...