Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate performed by Bok. This is the one you were presumably talking about, Equivocal? Ursonate text here.
Oh...the Beatles? Like this. Heh.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
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'She's talking to that mirror again, farther?' says Misst Craddock. Father Cradock turns round slowly from the book he is eating and explains that it is just a face she is going through and they're all the same at that age.
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I don't mind Christian Bok's version of Ursonate, but I must say I still much, much prefer Schwitters' own recording of it ( see here; scroll down the page for Schwitters' own extended comments on the piece, which might be especially useful for someone completely baffled by the sonata).
It's possible I prefer the Schwitters version by a long shot because I heard it first and have been listening to it repeatedly, on tape, since 2000, but I also find his version less theatrical and very subtle, rhythmic and timed in its changes in interesting ways.
There is one version of Ursonate I saw recently that I thought was as good as Schwitters' in its own way, though, and that is the very musical "Ursonate Variations" by the brilliant Japanese sound / performance poet, Tomomi Adachi ( see here for the sound file, and here, if you have the bandwidth and want to see how he does it, for the very fun video...
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