V.A. - PLAYING WITH WORDS: AN AUDIO COMPILATION (2CD)

"The work on this audio compilation is part of an intermittent ongoing tradition of artistic investigation of spoken language. The pieces included here negotiate potential oppositions such as semantic play and abstraction, musical and narrative structures, speech and song, one voice and many. Influences have been drawn from many sources including poetry, music, song, theatre, typography and graphic art, philosophy, radio, performance art, linguistics, fine art, literature and of course the keen observation and experience of the very many varieties of human communication that we all encounter and participate in every day. A DVD of live performances by some of these artists is also available." (label info) Feat. Jaap Blonk, Alessandro Bosetti, Sten Hanson, Barry Truax, Brandon LaBelle, Lars Gunnar Bodin, Julien Ottavi, Iris Garrelfs, Pamela Z and many more.