KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Sarenco and the Visual and Sound Poetry of Italy

Analog Audio

Event Type

Intermedia and Visual Arts

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1972.11.08

Program Length

44 min

Dates

1972-11-08 | broadcast
| 1972-11-08 | created

Description

During the 1970s in Italy, a group of visual poets stirred up quite a scene around Florence. The ring leader, a young poet who went by the name of Sarenco issued a periodical called “Lotta Poetica” (Poetic War), a communist, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist monthly devoted primarily to poetry with visual elements. Members of this “Gruppo 70” as they came to be called included Eugenio Miccini, Luciano Ori, Lucia Marcucci, Giusi Coppini, Michele Perfetti and Lamberto Pignotti. Here is a report on their subversive activities. Activities which eventually led the police to confiscate their printing presses, and caused another avant-garde periodical, “Flash Art” to denounce their leader, Sarenco. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

Sound poetry

Musical Selections

Homage to Lim Pau (sp?) / Sarenco -- [unidentified work with words Mien Gott] / Sarenco -- [unidentified work, could be “Concerto for Trees Only” or “Technological Poetry”] / Luciano Ori -- Poesia Auditiva [excerpt] / Lucia Marcucci -- [unidentified work] / Sarenco

Subjects

Sound poetry
Poets, Italian
Politics and culture
Communism
Visual poetry
Concrete poetry
Text-sound compositions

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the GRAMMY Foundation.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Gruppo 70
Amirkhanian, Charles
Sarenco, 1945-
Ori, Luciano, 1928-
Marcucci, Lucia