SOUNDREEL /INTERVIEW AVEC LES LETTRISTES. TONBAND NR.5. 1971.

Marketplatz, Germany: S-PRESS, 1971
15x 15cm, printed slip case content of card covers and a single standard audio-cassette in original plastic bag and colophon sheet. Raoul Hausmann was one of the founding members of Dada Berlin together with Richard Hulsenbeck and Frantz Jung. He founded and ran with Joannes Baader and Hulsenbeck, “Der Dada,” the best known publication of the Berlin dadaists. His work in creating photo-montages influenced John Heartfield and Georges Grosz amongst others. After creating many “phonetic poems” during this early Dada period he returned to the genre late in life and published many sound poems – something which unsurprisingly led him to the Lettristes. Here are two recordings of the poet (dealing with Dada and the Letterists, recorded respectively in 1951 and 1962) issued soon after his death as part of a series of such publications from the publisher Einhorn. This copy is dedicated and signed by Einhorn on the internal covers. Edition not known although a reel-to-reel version was also published. Fine, increasingly scarce.

195 uk pounds