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Roxana (1971)

Maurice Lemaître

Maurice Lemaître

Title of the triple EP: Poèmes et musiques lettristes
Title: Roxana (Track B1)
Publisher: Lettrisme (mensuel # 24), Paris
Date: 1971
Medium: 2 records 17 cm + 1 record-object 17 cm

On the EP Poèmes et musiques lettristes the French artist Maurice Lemaître presents the
expressions of Lettrism on two records and one record object. The piece Roxana, heard here, is typical of the artistic working method of the Lettrists. Lemaître shifts, exchanges, turns and changes the individual sounds of the word "Roxana" into new combinations, sequences, contexts and emphases. In this way, he creates new sound plays and elevates the meaning of the sound above the meaning of the word. He is acoustically accompanied by a choir that produces animal-like noises, hisses and calls.

This first record of the triple release, which includes Roxana, was first released by Pathe Marconi in 1958.

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