This is Upton's account of sound poetry compositions made at Fylkingen Stockholm and presented at the National Poetry Centre in August 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

The first 88 pages consist of a Homage to Heidsieck and the remaining pages to book reviews. Page 44 depicts an image of Canal Street No.42, a collage held by the Sackner Archive but attributed with a mis-spelling to Fackner rather than Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Heidsieck inscribed "30-11-1928 Paris." Thiis indicates his place and date of birth presumably a response to a query by Olbrich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text consists of notes for the record of the same title; the record is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is one of the first times that Heidsieck uses an electronic circuit board in his artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on the back cover was drawn by Joel Hubaut - the Sackners were given the drawing by Hubaut during his stay in Miami for the exhibition, "Tour de France/Florida. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes an interview of Bernard Heidsieck. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bob Cobbing has made notations for the actual performance times on Swedish radio on this personal copy. He notes that Valoch's contribution was not received in time for the festival. This copy is stored with Cobbing material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter is addressed to John Sharkey in which Houedard mentions well known poets of the '60s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter describes sound poems recently completed that are available for presentation at the "sound poetry? concrete poetry?" exhibition to be held at the Stedelijk Museim in Amsterdam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter is a lengthy polemic in which Cobbing argues with Chopin's assertions on contesting the history of sound poetry. He dates and mentions his own performances of sound poetry from his first attempts in 1942. He argues with Chopin on the dating of the works of Heidsieck, Wolman, de Vree, Lockwood, Dufrene, Gysin and Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter acknowledges receipt of silkscreen prints from Furnival for an exhibiton at l'Universite de Rouen and a request to Houedard fora loan of his works. Heidieck does not provide the name of the exhibition nor does the Sackner Archive have an exhibition catalogue for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gibbs mentions his current travel plans and performances. He has favorable comments for a sound poetry festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Proposes a sound poetry performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The project was coordinated by Nicolas Zurbrugg, and edited and produced by Emanuele Carcano. It includes all the sound poems on CD's that were originally recorded in OU on 45 rpm records plus five additional recordings that were done later in other publications. The two pamphlets are duplicates. The soft cover book includes Chopin's comments about each issue, Chopin's autobiography, and statements from other artists/poets about his sound poems. Tom Phillips' work is the score of the opera "Irma." One of the compact discs includes recordings of his phonetic poems, "Kansas City Numero Collage." The drawing for this poem is held by the Sackner Archive. It is stored on a shelf near Revue Ou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book contains several essays including works of Heidsieck from the collections of the Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, personal interviews and reminiscences, and The importance of the Text-Sound-Compositions Festival. The DVD contributes "an intimate portrait of Bernard Heidsieck, pioneer in the sound poetry movement since 1955 and founder in 1962 of action poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.