Various Artists

This compilation gathers 22 sound poems, including both seminal and recent pieces, and represents the first major survey of sound poetry from Peru. It continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the release of the album Inventar la voz: Nuevas tradiciones orales [Inventing the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and continued in 2011 with another album entitled Irse de lengua [Letting the Voice Slip Away]

Both albums contributed to articulate different manifestations of poetry that used technological means, also in the context of intense activities in the local experimental music and sound art scenes that opened spaces for interdisciplinary dialogues. What we know as sound poetry is the product of a technological revolution that accompanied the emergence of various means for recording, transmitting, and amplifying the voice. A long process that took shape in the 20th century until it became a discipline articulated as an international movement that, based on phonetic research, expanded into a universe of oral / vocal artistic practices as part of a new technological context

The recordings gathered here cover a period that stretches from 1972 to 2021. We find poems that use montage techniques as they explore either simultaneity or juxtaposition, such as those by Mario Montalbetti, Frido Martín, Florentino Díaz, Carlos Estela, Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Macri Cáceres, Rodrigo Vera Cubas, Tilsa Otta, Giancarlo Huapaya / Omar Córdova, Virginia Benavides, Lisa Carrasco, and Luis Alvarado. For others, the emphasis is on oral performance: we find the phonetic poems of Carlos Germán Belli and Eduardo Chirinos, and the concrete conceptual poems of Michael Prado, Sandra Suazo, Peru Saizprez and the oral / guttural poem of Omar Aramayo

ARTISTS & TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Mario Montalbetti
• Música para quince grullas atadas de las patas
• A2. Jorge Eduardo Eielson
• Colores
• A3. Francisco Mariotti
• Manifiesto Dadá 1918 Reordenado 1985
• A4. Carlos Germán Belli
• Expansión Sonora Biliar
• A5. Eduardo Chirinos
• Ol-ki-ol (El lamento del Guerba)
• A6. Omar Aramayo
• Homenaje a Marcela Castro
• A7. Enrique Verástegui
• Lectura Sensual Arquitectura: Música Persistente
• A8. Virginia Benavides
• Resonancia Magnética Nuclear
• A9. Florentino Díaz Ahumada
• Poema viento (2011)
• A10. Luisa Fernanda Lindo
• Estado de emergencia (Lugar común)

• SIDE B
• B1. Carlos Estela
• uncu erpo
• B2. Frido Martin
• Socos
• B3. Macri Cáceres
• pers.pec.ti.va
• B4. Paola Torres Núñez del Prado
• Cae el cuadro de este Mundo
• B5. Peru Saizprez
• Huayno Europeo
• B6. Tilsa Otta
• (auto) Configuración de voz de una máquina inteligente
• B7. Rodrigo Vera Cubas
• La otra mitad
• B8. Giancarlo Huapaya/Omar Córdova
• Pop Es Cia
• B9. Sandra Suazo
• Carteles
• B10. Michael Prado
• Es / To / No (2017)
• B11. Lisa Carrasco
• Na na na na na na na
• B12. Luis Alvarado
• Hipercomunicación