TEXT-SOUND COMPOSITIONS 8

STOCKHOLM 1971

1968-70, Fylkingen Records released series of 7 LPs 

in collaboration with the Swedish Radio of material presented 

during the festival for Text-Sound Composition

MUSICIANS

Bengt Emil Johnson (1936-2010) 

Swedish radio playwright , composer and poet

Gust Gils (1924-2002) 

Belgian writer published over 30 works of poetry and prose, 

founded the avant-garde magazine Gard Sivik, 

and edited the literary journal Podium. 

Gils claimed that his poems had a strong musical quality 

and were best experienced when read aloud; 

he eventually began to explore the twilight zone between poetry and music 

in a series of so-called "verbosonic" experiments. 

Taken with his prose work (chiefly short stories), 

his literary oeuvre situates him firmly in the tradition of 

surrealism and the absurd. 

In late 1969 and on into 1970, 

Gils experimented with psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD

Herman Damen 

Visual and text artist born at Wehl, The Netherlands in 1945

Bob Cobbing (1920–2002) 

British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet 

who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival

TRACK TITLES

Bengt Emil Johnson – 1/1971: Under Publikens Jubel - 7:32

(1/1971: Under The Rejoicing Of The Audience)

Realized at the Swedish Radio, Stockholm 1971

Technical realisation by Christer Grewin

Gust Gils – Making Out In Windy Stockholm - 15:02

Realized at Radio Hilversum, The Netherlands 1971

Herman Damen – Magic – 3:49

Realized at Radio Hilversum, The Netherlands 1968-70

Voice – Cor Doesburg

Bob Cobbing – Trilogy Tree - 14:36

Realized at the Swedish Radio, Stockholm 1971

Technical realisation by Berndt Berndtsson

Voice – Bob Cobbing, John Darling

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