Dada Sound, Music & Movies
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890–-2008
Friday 14 March –- Friday 2 May 2008
Tate Modern, London
To coincide with the major exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, this landmark series presents over 60 films, most of which have never been shown before in the UK. Marking the 40th anniversary of the May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which resounds today, the series demonstrates the political vitality and formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema to the present day.
The series includes pioneering films by Christian Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia, Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more.
Starr Auditiorium
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk
Curated by Nicole Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d'Amerval and Laurent Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque Française
René Clair - Entr'acte (1924)
That's Satie himself and the poet and painter Francis Picabia (the creator of Relâche) "firing" a field gun into the camera. And the two fellows playing chess on the roof of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées are Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjFW138iqpc
From this page you can click on several other avant-garde shorts, such as
Erik Satie - Petite overture à danser
Erik Satie - Gymnopédia No 1
Marcel Duchamp
Various Statements and Interviews
http://www.ubu.com/sound/duchamp.html
The Creative Act (7:28)
A paper presented to the convention of the American Federation of Arts in Houston, Texas, April 1957
Some Texts from à l'infinitif (4:06)
Written 1912-20. Read in New York 1967
An Interview (11:04)
By George Heard Hamilton, 1959
An Interview (21:24)
By Richard Hamilton, London 1959
Interview, 1961 (French)
Alain Jouffroy, Marcel Duchamp: rencontre.
Les Mémorables de Marcel Duchamp
(French radio broadcasts)
The Music of Marcel Duchamp
Erratum Musical (for three voices) (8:06)
S.E.M. Ensemble
Sculpture Musicale (Mesostic by John Cage) (4:06)
John Cage, voice
La Mariée mise à nu par ses Célibataires, même (10:42)
Pianola version by Petr Kotik
Sculpture Musicale (5:22)
Musicboxes version by Petr Kotik
La Mariée mise à nu par ses Célibataires, même (23:02)
Realization for alto flute, trumpet, trombone, celesta, and marimbaphone by Petr Kotik. S.E.M. Ensemble
From the CD Music of Marcel Duchamp, Edition Block + Paula Cooper Gallery, 1991
(UbuWeb Sound)
A Movie by Marcel Duchamp
Anémic Cinéma
On Chris Dennis's blog, The Soul Map strikes back
Dada for Now
(UbuWeb Sound)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/dada.html
1. Antonio Russolo: Corale and Serenata, 1921
Original recording.
2. Hugo Ball: Karawane, 1916:Wolken, 1916:Katzen und Pfauen, 1916:Totenklage, 1916:Gadji beri bimba, 1916:Seepferdchen und Flugfische, 1916
Performed by Trio Exvoco (Hanna Aurbacher, Theophil Maier, and Ewald Liska)
3. Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231, 1923
Performed by L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (cond).
4. Tristan Tzara / Marcel Janco / Richard Huelsenbeck: L'amiral cherche une maison a louer, 1916
Performed by Trio Exvoco (Hanna Aurbacher, Theophil Maier, and Ewald Liska)
5. Kurt Schwitters: Simultangedicht kaa gee dee, 1919: WW, 1922: boo, 1926: naa
1926: bii bull ree, 1936: Obervogelsang, 1946: Niesscherzo e Hustenscherzo, 1937: Cigarren, 1921: The real disuda of the nightmare, 1946
Performed by Trio Exvoco (Hanna Aurbacher, Theophil Maier, and Ewald Liska)
6. Raoul Hausmann: Soundrel, 1919
Recording by Raoul Hausmann
7. Giacomo Balla: Discussione sul futurismo di due critici sudanesi, 1914: Macchina Tipografica, 1914: Paesaggio + Temporale, 1914.
Performed by Luigi Pennone, Arrigo Lora-Totino, and Sergio Cena.
8. Luigi Russolo: Verglio di una citta, 1914.
Original recording.
Notes
Dada for Now / A collection of Futurist and Dada sound works / 1985 UK Cover: b/w, design: Colin Fallows according to a photo by Reg Cox. Included folder with photos and manifestos. 30cm, 33RPM, ARK, Liverpool, Dove 4.
Louis Aragon
Interview (1963) (UbuWeb Sound)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/aragon.html
Originally from the CD Surrealism Reviewed (LTM Publishing)
Jean Arp
(UbuWeb Sound)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/arp.html
Kaspar Ist Tot (1912) (1:57)
Die Wolkenpumpe (1919) (5:12)
Dada-Sprüche (1955) (3:08)
Aus Dem 'Pyramidenrock' (Opus Null) (1924) (2:04)
Im Autonomobilen Reich (1961) (2:44)
Arabische Sanduhr (1961) (1:17)
Schnurrmilch (1961) (1:34)
Aus 'Weisst Du Schwarzt Du' (1930) (1:03)
Strassburgkonfiguration (1931) (3:33)
Gondel Fahren (1959) (1:07)
Wir Bittsteller Aber (1959) (0:59)
Hinunter Hinunter (1961) (1:03)
Aus 'Auf Verschleierten Schaukeln' (1957) (1:32)
Engel, Sinnende Flammen (1961) (1:54)
Hugo Ball
(UbuWeb Sound)
http://www.ubu.com/sound/ball.html
1. Karawane (1916)
2. Wolken (1916)
3. Katzen und Pfauen (1916)
4. Totenklage (1916)
5. Gadji beri bimba (1916)
6. Seepferdchen und Flugfishche (1916)
Performed by Trio Exvoco:
Hanna Aurbacher, Teophil Maier, Ewald Liska from the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records, Milan)
7. Marie Osmond performing Hugo Ball's "Karawane" (:32)
Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974)
Phantastische Gebeté, 1916 (4.07)
Rec: New York, 1967 (UbuWeb Sound)
Marcel Janco
UbuWeb Deutschland Dada (1969)
This documentary film in two parts by Helmut Herbst concerns the contributions of German artists to the Dadaist movement.
Man Ray
L'Etoile de Mer
Man Ray
Emak-Bakia (1926)
Emak-Bakia, ( the title comes from an old Basque expression that means don't bother me), subtitled a cinépoème, features many filming techniques used by Man Ray, including rayographs, double exposures, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.
It was, originally, a silent film (note: the first screening was with a phonograph recording of a popular jazz tune, along with a live pianist and violinist who took over with tangos when the records were changed) but recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time. The musical reconstruction was by Jacques Guillot.
Hans Richter
Dreams that Money Can Buy
The Venus excerpt from Dreams That Money Can Buy, a 1947 American experimental feature color film.
Marcel Duchamp's fragment from Hans Richter's film. Music by John Cage.
The Gnossienne no. 1 and other Satie compositions.
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)
(UbuWeb Sound)
1. Pour Compte (6.02), from Phases, 1949
2. L'Amiral cherche une maison à louer
(Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Richard Hulsenbeck)
3. Dada Into Surrealism (1959)
Dada CD's
FESTIVAL DADA PARIS 1920-23
A unique CD based on the piano repertoire performed at two landmark Dada events in Paris, namely the Festival Dada on 26 May 1920, and the infamous Soirée du Coeur à Barbe on 6 July 1923, an event disrupted by violent confrontation between Tristan Tzara's Dada faction and Surrealists lead by André Breton.
Music from the 1920 event includes two pieces by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes as well as The American Nurse by Francis Picabia, the latter described as "three notes repeated to infinity". Pieces performed at the riotous 1923 soirée include two fox-trots by Georges Auric and Darius Milhaud (both members of the celebrated group Les Six), Trois Morceaux en forme de poire by Erik Satie, and Three Easy Pieces by Igor Stravinsky. The CD also includes other pieces such as Satie's bizarre playlet Le Piège de Méduse (premiered in Paris in May 1921), Drie composities voor Klavier by the Belgian-born Dada/Surrealist E.L.T. Mesens, and a piano rendering of Marcel Duchamp's short vocal Erratum musical of 1913.
The CD closes with an historic archive Stravinsky recording from 1925 by Marcelle Meyer, the pianist who performed at the 1923 event. The music of Dada is rarely heard, and remarkably this CD marks the first ever recordings of these compositions by Ribemont-Dessaignes, Picabia and Mesens. All were researched and performed for the project by virtuoso Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen. The booklet includes detailed liner notes by James Hayward, as well as archive images. To read full sleevenote click here.
Full tracklist :
Erik Satie : Trois morceaux en forme de poire
Darius Milhaud : Caramel Mou (shimmy)
Georges Auric : Adieu, New York (fox-trot)
Igor Stravinsky : Trois pièces faciles à quatre mains
Georges Ribemont Dessaignes : Le Nombril interlope
Francis Picabia : La nourrice américaine (fast)
Georges Ribemont Dessaignes : Pas de la chicorée frisée
Erik Satie : Le Piège de la Méduse
E.L.T. Mesens : Drie composities voor Klavier
Marcel Duchamp : Erratum musical
Francis Picabia : La nourrice américaine (slow)
Igor Stravinsky : Rag-Time (1925 recording by Marcelle Meyer);Le Pelican (fox-trot) (wax cylinder recording)
ISBN 978-1-906310-07-3
(LTMCD 2513) £10
ERIK SATIE : DADA WORKS & ENTR'ACTES
Bojan Gorisek (Piano)
CD audio (16 janvier 2007)
Label: LTM
ASIN : B000JJRVSQ
25,77 euros
An enthusiastic Dada activist in Paris between 1920 and 1924, Satie collaborated extensively with Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau, wrote often in Francis Picabia's journal 391, and was a sworn enemy of the proto-Surrealist faction lead by Andre Breton. According to Man Ray, Satie was "the only composer who had eyes." All of Satie's principle Dada-related works are included on this unique 70 minute CD, including: Trois morceaux en forme de poire, performed by Satie in July 1923 at Tzara's notorious Soirée du Coeur à barbe, at which fighting broke out between Tzara's supporters and the proto-Surrealist faction; Ragtime Dada, an extract from the ballet Parade performed at a series of Dada soirees by Kurt Schwitters in 1922; Entr'acte and Cinéma, both scores for Picabia's multi-media 'instantaneist' ballet Relâche performed in 1924. Cinéma was Satie's custom score for the celebrated intermission film by René Clair, while for their curtain call Satie and Picabia drove onstage in a tiny car, resplendent in jewels and furs, the whole production amounting to a dazzling act of anti-art provocation. Both are Satie's arrangements for solo piano. All pieces are performed on piano by Bojan Gorisek, and the booklet includes archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.
To order: www.amazon.fr
La légende du Grand Verre
A film in progress directed by Pascal GOBLOT
This film is a documentary/fiction: a chess game designed as a detective story between Marcel Duchamp and the actors of his work. The spectator will find himself plunged into an initiation into Duchamp's major effort, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même... best known under the name of le Grand Verre.