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Lingual Music

by Lily Greenham

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ABC In Sound 02:39
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Tillid 01:38
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Autor 01:04
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Outsider 02:19
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Borges 10:19
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Capital 01:02
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Experience 02:14
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Circulation 09:55
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Ona 00:54
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RRR 02:35
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Pre-eminence 07:53
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Hocus Pocus 02:23
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Musica 01:52
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Cherokee 01:32
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Circulation 05:55
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Friction 01:31
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Movimiento 04:36
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Sino 01:21
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Traffic 10:34
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Tillid 01:16
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Tops 00:57
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Trykfejl 00:20
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Seascape 08:02
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Underground 03:01
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Relativity 08:16
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Gebet 00:50
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about

Britain’s best known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but it’s hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the 60’s and 70’s. It’s equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. Lily Greenham was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Nearly all of her own writings and compositions date from after her arrival in London, but prior to this she had been involved in two major European art movements. In the late 50s she had been an active member of the early Wienner Gruppe, performing in their wild experimental theatre works and reciting the new poetry of young artists like Gerhard Rühm, Konrad Bayer and A.C. Hartmann, but before the Wienner Gruppe had established itself as the important art movement it was to become, she had moved on and changed her working practice.
In 1964 she was back in Paris for a second time, but this time she was working as a visual artist creating optical art pieces. She was soon directly involved in group shows with the ‘Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel’. For the second time she was at the centre of an emerging art movement that was exploring new ground, but predictably enough she moved on. Once in London she began to record her own text based compositions that used a mixture of sound poetry techniques, electronics and multi-tracking. The term ‘lingual music’ that she coined for her compositions refers to her technique of using tape loops of text to create complex and dense musical structures. Her most well known composition in this style is ‘Relativity’, which was made in 1974 in collaboration with the Radiophonic Workshop at the BBC. She also worked with quite a few musicians, both via the early LMC network in London, but also on the international scene. A list of musicians she worked with includes John Tchicai, Wolfgang Dauner, Bob Downes, Barry Guy, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley and Peter Cusack. This 2CD set compiles a wide variety of her own work, including live solo performances, film soundtracks, as well as many tape pieces. There are also examples of her performing works by Cobbing, Rühm and other sound poets, as well as recordings of her work with Bob Downes Open Music. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1984.

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released January 1, 2007

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Lily Greenham London, UK

Sound poet, op. artist and polyglot. Born in Denmark, raised in Austria, moved to Paris and finally settled in London in 1972

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