TALK WITHOUT WORDS (1)

-Contiguous to the asemic continuum, (and hopefully not too far off the asemic grid)

a  continuum of  asemic speech. 'talk without words'

(listening to michael jacobson's mynd eraser)

>throat sounds>>>sound poetry>>>pseudo language>>>speaking in tongues>>>word -salad>>



some offhand examples






Ziggy Atem.
I first saw this about 10 years ago on a japanese VHS. (AUGEN)
The show included a transvestite dancer dancing dramatically around Ziggy Atem who was making some kind of proclamation in his own language. Very alien and obscure.




(throat sounds) id M Theft Able (Portland U.S.)
Around since late 90's, I have some his earlier stuff, very personal intimate sounds and dadaistic utterances.






Jaap Blonk (sound poetry, pseudo language and throat sounds)
mindboggling voice acrobatics, lots of great stuff on youtube.





Kurt Schwitters
The Ursonate, sound poetry from 1922





Speaking in tongues, great performance by a young christian dadaist










by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/

Downhill Asemics; madness on the continuum

First;
 Kurt Schwitters, step by step removes all syntactic structure from the text.



 Kurt Schwitters to the Swiss Dadaist Arp. Blackberries (2)

belivered pra! 
 first I say why?
 why does one use upper case and lower case? i use only lower case. then I say why? why does one punctuate i write everything without punctuationthen i ask why why does one use umlauts i won't be straight diacritical henceforth i will write zurich ful- fills seclusion personal carryover and then i remember the old phrase from mathematics namely that it does not matter in which order i add respect multiply and now i write vole instead of love because love needs voles to love voles and finally now will  giveup the or derofwordsamongthemselvesbywritingonlyo
egiantwordorwhilemorewrotitsoladinorthographyisnaturallyunimportantandsenseigiveupinfavorofnonsenseandthustheitsheklmnopqrsutabelgikemaminopetroleumplaguekakrrkrrksrsto-pitonobilamenteyakkaanteelinguekitonpausbacrocodilemmadiemadilemma *)

                                                                                   kuwitter

*)Here the typographer went stark raving mad and threatened a general strike,  should he be forced to set any more Kuhgewitter (Cowweather).
(from; Pppppp: Kurt Schwitters Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics )

Then;
Charles Crumb removes all distinguishability between letters and reduces punctuation.

A next logical step towards total insanity might be  to remove spacing and expression, reducing the text to a line-based grid

_____________________
 __________  __________
 _____________________
 _____________________
 _____________________
 ______  ______________
 ___________________  _
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However I'd say the real difference between Crumb and Schwitters here is that Schwitters is frisky jumping up and down the continuum whereas Crumb is forever glued to a fixed point.

by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/