Hugo Ball fue el inventor de la poesía fonética dadaísta.
La estupenda página www.ubu.com, es una fuente de archivos, comentarios y mp3 para acercarnos a esta poesía.
Aquí algunos links con poemas sonoros de Hugo Ball ya emblemáticos, interpretados por el Trio Exvoco (Hanna Aurbacher, Teophil Maier, Ewald Liska, del disco Futura Poesia Sonora, Cramps Records, Milan):
Los que siguen están geniales, chéquenlos:
Woken, Katzen und Pfauen, Totenklage, Gadji Beri Bimba, Seepferdchen und Flugfische.
Lo que sigue es una interpretación del primer poema Karawane que, según se aclara en el respectivo link, su historia es la siguiente: “Taken from a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not segment on sound poetry from the mid-80s. According to producer Jed Rasula, “Marie Osmond became co-host with Jack Palance. In the format of the show, little topic clusters (like “weird language”) were introduced by one of the hosts. In this case, the frame was Cabaret Voltaire. Marie was required to read Hugo Ball’s sound poem “Karawane” and a few script lines. Much to everybody’s astonishment, when they started filming she abruptly looked away from the cue cards directly into the camera and recited, by memory, “Karawane.” It blew everybody away, and I think they only needed that one take. A year or so after it was broadcast, Greil Marcus approached me, wanting to use Marie Osmond’s rendition of Hugo Ball for a cd produced in England as sonic companion to his book Lipstick Traces; so I was delighted to be able to arrange that.”
Por cierto que Ricardo Castillo es un poeta de Guadalajara que se presenta a veces acompañado por músicos y que continúa tercamente esta tradición.
