Henri Chopin

Henri Chopin (1922-2008) was a poet, painter, filmmaker, independent publisher, and cultural organizer who in the 1950s began using early recording systems to produce a wide range of works based on the manipulation of the human voice.

Publications

• Poésie sonore internationale, intro. William Burroughs, Paris: J.-M. Place, 1979, 309 pp. (French)

Links

• http://www.ubu.com/sound/chopin.html
• https://www.postwarcultureatbeinecke.org/henri-chopin-and-ou
• http://soundpoetryedicionesdelcementerio.blogspot.com/2013/12/revista-ou-1964-1973.html
• http://www.centre.ch/en/from-concrete-to-liquid-to-spoken-worlds-to-the-word
• Wikipedia

Literature

• Jack Patterson, "Henri Chopin: From the Paper Civilization to the Electronic Age". Resonance 3, n. 4 (December 2022): 344–363. (English)
• Cédric Jamet, "Limitless Voice(s), Intensive Bodies: Henri Chopin's Poetics of Expansion". Mosaic 42, n. 2 (June2009): 135–51. (English)
• Michael Lentz, "'Musik? Poesie? Eigentlich …': Lautmusik/Poesie nach 1945". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 157, n. 2 (March–April 1996): 47–55. (German)
• Marc Matter, "Revue OU Disque" (Editorial). Fabrikzeitung, n. 298 (February 2014): 2–3.
• Andrew Norris, "Projections of the Pulseless Body: Don van Vliet and Henri Chopin". Chapter & Verse, n. 3 (Spring 2005). (English)
• Reinhard Oehlschlägel, "Henri Chopin gestorben". MusikTexte, n. 116 (February 2008): 87. (German)
• Nicholas Zurbrugg, 'Electronic Arts in Australia' Continuum Vol 8, No 1, 1992 (p129-132) Interview with Henri Chopin. (English)
• Nicholas Zurbrugg, "Programming Paradise: Haraldo de Campos, Concrete Poetry, and the Postmodern Multimedia Avant-Garde". In Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, edited by Brandon LaBelle and Christof Migone, 7–35. Los Angeles: Errant Bodies, 2001. (English)