MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH…
Eduard Escoffet
The following is a transcript of the email conversation with the poet and sound poetry collector Peter Eduard Escoffet, which took place in Summer 2013, as part of the research process for the podcast series MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with…
In this conversation, Escoffet talks about his personal collection, the origins and evolution of the genre, and the historiography charted by the 4.5 linear meters of CDs and cassettes that he has patiently been accumulating in his home since the nineties.
Eduard Escoffet is a poet whose work spans several disciplines: sound, visual, and textual poetry and performance. Through Propost, which he founded in 1993, he has produced numerous events and festivals linked to poetry.
In this tenth instalment, Chris Cutler looks at the human voice and its aesthetic reinventions. To be continued in episode 11.
Vox et repetitio
In this instalment, we capture some of the infinite instances of voice and repetition in Eduard Escoffet's sound poetry collection.
In this sound piece, Oriol Vilanova recites, one after another and in no particular order, the more than one thousand names of the cities featured in his postcard collection of triumphal arches 'Còpies', one of his works in the MACBA Collection.
Bradien + Eduard Escoffet mixtape
A mixtape made from Matías Rossi (Bradien) and Eduard Escoffet's exclusive music selection for SON[I]A #182.
Oriol Vilanova
Oriol Vilanova works with materials from flea markets: postcards, books and other documents which he collects, sorts and recomposes to create new mental journeys.
Bradien and Escoffet
Matías Rossi, founding member of Bradien, and Eduard Escoffet, choose 10 anchorage points that enhance our understanding of the background, processes and intentions of their synthesis of poetry and music.
Reflections at a critical juncture: Perejaume, Ignasi Aballí and Eduard Escoffet
Overwhelmed by the institutionalised discourse of politics and economists, we invite artists, philosophers, researchers and poets to share their ideas about what is happening to us, to comment on the positive and negative implications of this structural crisis, and to imagine an uncertain future.