Det stora och det lilla
Öyvind Fahlström (1927-1979) a world renowned artist born in Sao- Paolo who lived and worked in Sweden and U.S.A. He started out as a poet, being a pioneer within the concrete poetry genre in Sweden. Later his activity expanded and came to include painting, films, drama, happenings and radio art. Fahlström wanted to liberate the audience by revitalizing the language, visually as well as verbally.
"Det store och det lilla"/ "The Large and the Small" is a poem in eleven parts written in 1953. Here we present a sound version performed by the Swedish vocal group Tre Tenorer.
1. Det store och det lilla(2:58) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
2. Ett kvitter, ett till kvitter(6:22) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
3. Där finner han nog(1:45) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
4. Med rösten av unga(5:15) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
5. Grova säkra nickar(4:16) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
6. Hastam hapar (6:56) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
7. Det är inte pinnar (1:35) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
8. Nu e du min gul (6:20) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
9. En punkts kvitter (11:49) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
10. Ge tilbaks det som (4:33) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
11. En rörelse som kommer (4:54) To listen, choose between 28.8 Modem or ISDN.
From the poetic cycle
THE LARGE AND THE SMALL
with the voice of young men as hosts
I find her in a flowing profusion of nuances
it is so strange to nod violently from golden cow-cunts as helmets
it is thus young men who turn
with the voice of violence from
a flowing profusion of nuances
oum oum a-é
it was thus I saw him establish hearing
as she still lay in blankets of filtered sound
of voices from men
of men who became worlds of the worlds which she
could stop by feeling to feel if she had yet herself become hearing
of golden jerseys which she found
in flowing nuances and cow-cunts which dilated with happiness A ourna
oh e ou a-ouou
it's possible that if something hidden appears it can take voice
she was filtered away become hearing
golden cow-cunts their helmets
remained behind on the filter
it is possible that the voice became the hosts' again
young men who became worlds and stopped in
a flowing profusion of nuances
oh-a
oum oum a-
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