KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ S.2 Cornflakes - Text-Sound works from Stockholm

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

P.1969.XX.XX

Program Length

19 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

This recording, originally from an analog 7 inch reel-to-reel titled simply “Cornflakes” compiles 4 text-sound compositions from artists affiliated with the Fylkingen society based in Stockholm; Sten Hanson, Svante Bodin, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams. Fylkingen has been a society for artists working in new and experimental art forms since the 1930’s. The recordings presented here have since been released by the Fylkingen Records label on the compilation “Text-Sound Compositions: A Stockholm Festival (1967-68)”.

Genres

Sound poetry
Electro-Acoustic / Electronic

Musical Selections

Around the Corner Variations (4:15) / Diter Rot & Emmett Williams (1969) -- Western Europe 1969 (4:15) / Sten Hanson -- La Destruction De Votre Code Génétique Par Drogues, Toxines Et Irradiation (1:50) / Sten Hanson -- Transition to Majorana Space (1968) (10:55) / Svante Bodin

Performers

Marjatta Karukovski, voice (Western Europe; La Destruction)

Subjects

Sound poetry
Text-sound compositions
Electronic music
Electro-acoustic

Related Entities

Fylkingen (Society)
EMS
Electronmusikstudion
Hanson, Sten, 1936-
Bodin, Svante
Williams, Emmett
Rot, Dieter