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JAN 7, 2009
'The Ur Sonata' MUSIC
'The Ur Sonata'

The first line of Kurt Schwitters's 35-minute-long performance poem, which is almost never performed, is "Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu." Now that's Dada: self-murdering nonsense. (Schwitters was his own outpost in Dada, staying marooned in Hanover, making his house into a curated heap of trash.) Actress and vocalist Kristen Loree will perform the complete text against a backdrop of Jack Ox's paintings. The paintings, based on Ox's translation of the poem, run continuously for 800 feet. Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom! (As Tzara would say.) (Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 789-1939. 7:30 pm, $5–$15 donation.) by Jen Graves

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This sounds excruciatingly horrible.
Posted by jackie treehorn on January 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM · Report
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I'm going to wear my tomato can bra and bring my pet leopard.
Posted by itsmarkmitchell on January 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM · Report
3
Oh, this will be fun.
The British arts guy George Melly used to perform a condensed version of this piece, one minute long. It wound up on the "Miniatures" anthology album. In the notes he writes that one evening he was going to the pub and a trio of bovver boys came up to him and were going to bash him, but he drew himself up and shouted "Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu!!" at them, and they ran off in confusion.
Posted by --MC on January 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM · Report
4
Rakete be tze
Posted by rakete rinzekete on January 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM · Report
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There's a facebook event link to it - I'll include it as my URL this time ...
Posted by Will in Seattle on January 7, 2009 at 12:23 PM · Report

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