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Les Martyrs (1975)

Sten Hanson

Sten Hanson

Album title: The Sonosopher Retrospective
Title: Les Martyrs (Track 07)
Publisher: Alga Marghen, Milano
Date: publ. 1998
Medium: record 30 cm
Edition: 545
Cover: Sten Hanson

 

The piece Les Martyrs by the Swedish sound poet and multimedia artist Sten Hanson was first
performed publicly in Hudiksvall in 1975. It is a collage of audio samples, electronically distorted
sounds and Hanson's voice. The piece plays with propagandistic recordings of international political
figures and leaders of social labour movements, Marxists and Communists. Hanson delivers a
statement about the former and past social politics by superimposing original sounds with the exclamation
"Make free my people" in the respective language of the protagonists. By examining the title of the track, Hanson's intention becomes clear.

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