Internationale Sprachexperimente der 50 / 60er Jahre (n.d.)

Ti­tle of the album: Internationale Sprachexperimente der 50/60er Jahre
Ti­tle: - (Seite 02)
Publisher: Edition Hoffmann, Frankfurt am Main
Da­te: 1970
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm + insert

The long-playing record Internationale Sprachxperimente der 50 / 60er (International Language Experiments of the 50s / 60s), released in 1970, contains twelve of Lily Greenham's compositions on the B-side, which can be heard here. The A-side contains 33 pieces by other artists interpreted by Lily Greenham, including Bob Cobbing, Gerhard Rühm, Ernst Jandl, and Augusto de Campos.

Lily Greenham's compositions in the 1950s and 1960s include:

• Do You Wonder About This Society
• Upon A Time
• Experience
• Relations
• Who Are The Women & Men
• Are You The Kind Of Person
• Millions Are Getting Killed
• Potent Impotency
• Object/Subject
• Focus Hocus Pocus
• Authority
• Underground

Lily Greenham was an early pioneer of concrete poetry, using her voice in ways that had never been explored before. Her concrete poems and their auditory recitation focus on the individual word and its sound. In her sound poetic presentation, the words are relentlessly processed, stretched, fragmented, repeated as if in staccato, and made to sound. Lily Greenham explored the experimental potential of her own voice until words were barely audible as words.

Greenham created impressive experimental compositions of concrete poetry. Through her extraordinary vocal presentation, she has also acoustically emphasized the materiality of language in concrete poetry.

ATJ