Primal Sound

Rainer Maria Rilke sketches out what might possibly be the most poetic idea for a phonographic recording "on Assumption Day 1919" in Soglio. The notion of steering the phonograph across a track "which was not derived from the graphic translation of sound, but existed of itself, naturally" - whereby in doing so, Rilke is thinking mainly of the coronal suture. In fact, when implemented, what emerges is what is described in the same text as "primal sound": a note, a succession of notes, music that results from the decoding of a track that has never been encoded. Even Friedrich...

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Orig. Title
Ur-Geräusch
Year
2007
Country
Austria
Duration
14 min
Category
Essay
Orig. Language
German
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