MERZSONIC Re-interpreting Schwitters' Ursonate

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Performance 1.Maerz.26 BERLINISCHE GALERIE Hausmann/Schwitters

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online version hier : https://berlinischegalerie.de/veranstaltung/grosses-dada-dings-performance-dada-x-merz/#2026-03-01T18:30:00+01:00   ENGLISH VERSION: Dada x Merz | How Letters Became a Sonata In the performance “Dada x Merz,” musician and performer Florian Kaplick (Edinburgh/Munich) traces the path of an artistic transformation: How did the letters that Raoul Hausmann randomly had printed on posters in 1918 become sounds, and how did his friend, the Merz‑artist Kurt Schwitters, shape them into the legendary “Ursonate” ? Kaplick delves into this milestone of the sound avant‑garde. It is a journey back to the origins of the Ursonate : to Prague, September 1921, where Hausmann and Schwitters caused a sensation on stage. Florian Kaplick brings the creatively curious dialogue between Dada and Merz back to life—between sound poetry, music, and action—with humor and bold explorations of vocal acoustics. Included with museum admission, no registration required   Kontakt ...
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FLUiCHTe - Tzara/Schwitters 1940

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audio link: FLUiCHTe live performance FK 2025 (may require extra mp3 player tool) Note on this text collage for recitation: In the very same year of 1940 Merz-dadaist Kurt Schwitters and Dada-surrealist Tristan Tzara both put their terrible experience of fleeing from Nazi persecution in a text with the very same title in their respective languages (German and French): Flucht by Schwitters and La Fuite by Tzara. Both had been prominent figures in Dada thinking. In 1940, however, neither Schwitters nor Tzara apply dadaist techniques to write about their respective flight sufferings. Although the two texts are very different in length, form and breadth of content, I felt tempted to condense the core aspect of the experience of flight as a war con sequence into one poem. Therewith in a way reuniting the two men who knew each other well, but didn’t have a chance to meet again after 1936, when Schwitters left Nazi Germany initially for Norway before in 1940 having to flee from there ...
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