Hugo Ball
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- IMAGE CREDITS
Hugo Ball (1926). Photographer unknown.
sound poetry
- PRINTED
- 'The complete sound-poems of Hugo Ball', in Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (eds.), Poems for the millennium. The University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry. Vol. 1 (University of California Press : Berkeley 1995) 294-297.
- 'Wolken', first published in De Stijl Nr. 85/86 (Leiden 1928).
- 'Katzen und Pfauen', first published in De Stijl Nr. 85/86 (Leiden 1928).
- 'Totenklage', first published in De Stijl Nr. 85/86 (Leiden 1928).
- 'Gadji beri bimba', first published in De Stijl Nr. 85/86 (Leiden 1928).
- 'Karawane', first published in Dada-Almanach / herausgegeben von Richard Huelsenbeck (Erich Reiss Verlag : Berlin 1920).
- 'Seepferdchen und Flugfische', first published in Poésie de mots inconnus / éd. par Iliazd [=Ilia Zdanévitch] (Iliazd : Paris 1949).
- RECORDINGS
- Six Sound Poems by Hugo Ball
BABA OEMF
Kontrans 844
Jaap Blonk (voice), Bart van der Putten (alto saxophone), Pieter Meurs (double bass)
Recorded live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, May 11, 1989.
- Contents:
- Wolken (Clouds) 7:42
- Katzen und Pfauen (Cats and Peacocks) 5:01
- Karawane (Caravan) 6:01
- Gadji beri bimba 6:19
- Totenklage (Dirge) 14:07
- Seepferdchen und flugfische (Seahorses and Flying Fish) 10:32
- FUTURA Poesia Sonora
ed. by Arrigo Lora-Totino
Cramps Records, Milan
5 CDs, CRSCD 091-095, 1989
Performed by Trio Exvoco: Hanna Aurbacher, Teophil Maier, Ewald Liska, 1978.
A CD release of an extensive sound poetry anthology orginally produced on five LPs in 1978. You can listen to the 6 poems on this CD on the site of UbuWeb.
- DISSERTATIONS/THESES
- Susan Babilon
Hugo Ball and the Development of Sound Poetry (City University of New York : New York 1999).
- Jana Groh
Dadaismus : Hugo Ball - Lautgedicht und Sprachmagie (Grin Verlag : 2008).
- MONOGRAPHS
- Christian Scholz
Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Typologie der Lautpoesie (Obermichelbach 1989). Part 3, Discography [online]; available at <http://www.engeler.de/lautpoesiediskographie.pdf> [accessed 20 June 2011].
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS and PAPERS
- Hubert van den Berg
'Gustav Landauer und Hugo Ball. Anarchismus, Sprachkritik und die Genese des Lautgedichts', in Hugo-Ball-Almanach 19 (1995) 121-181.
- Reinhard Döhl
'Akustische Poesie / Ein Exkurs' [online] (2007); available at <http://www.netzliteratur.net/experiment/akustpoe.htm> [accessed 20 June 2011].
- Hal Foster
'Dada Mime', in October 105 (Summer 2003) 166-176 [Stable URL: www.jstor.org/stable/3397692.
- John Scanlan
'Words and Worlds: Dada and the Destruction of Logos, Zurich 1916', in tout-fait. The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal Issue 5 (2003) [online]; available at <http://www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_5/articles/scanlan/scanlan2.html> [accessed 20 June 2011].
- Christian Scholz
'Relations between sound poetry and visual poetry. The path from the optophonetic poem to the multimedia text', in Visible Language 35 (2001) No. 1 [online DADA article archive].
- [abstract] A brief history of the development of scores for sound poetry during the twentieth century is presented. The work of Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters is the focus for the early part of the century. From mid-century to end, the work of Franz Mon, Carlfriedrich Claus and Valeri Scherstjanoi is the focus.
- Stephen Scobie
'Gadji beri bimba. Abstraction in poetry', in Canadian literature no. 97 (summer 1983) 75-92; also in Stephen Scobie, Earthquakes and explorations. Language and painting from cubism to concrete poetry (University of Toronto Press : Toronto 1997) 153-168.

- Wolken
- elomen elomen lefitalominal
wolminuscaio
baumbala bunga
acycam glastula feirofim flinsi
- elominuscula pluplubasch
rallalalaio
- endremin saxassa flumen flobollala
feilobasch falljada follidi
flumbasch
- cerobadadrada
gragluda gligloda glodasch
gluglamen gloglada gleroda glandridi
- elomen elomen lefitalominai
wolminuscaio
baumbala bunga
acycam glastala feirofim blisti
elominuscula pluplusch
rallabataio
- Katzen und Pfauen
- baubo sbugi ninga gloffa
- siwi faffa
sbugi faffa
olofa fafamo
faufo halja finj
- sirgi ninga banja sbugi
halja hanja golja biddim
- mâ mâ
piaûpa
mjâma
- pawapa baungo sbugi
ninga
gloffalor
- Totenklage
- ombula
take
bitdli
solunkola
tabla tokta tokta takabla
taka tak
Babula m'balam
tak tru – ü
wo – um
biba bimbel
o kla o auwa
kla o auwa
la – auma
o kla o ü
la o auma
klinga – o – e – auwa
ome o-auwa
klinga inga M ao – Auwa
omba dij omuff pomo – auwa
tru-ü
tro-u-ü o-a-o-ü
mo-auwa
gomun guma zangaga gago blagaga
szagaglugi m ba-o-auma
szaga szago
szaga la m'blama
bschigi bschigo
bschigi bschigi
bschiggo bschiggo
goggo goggo
ogoggo
a-o –auma
- Gadji beri bimba
- gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori
gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini
gadji berl bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim
gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban
o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo
gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen
bluku terullala blaulala loooo
- zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam
elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata
velo da bang bang affalo purzamai affalo purzamal lengado tor
gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö
viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo
- tuffm im zimbrabim negramai bumbalo negramai bumbalo tuffm i zim
gadjama bimbala oo beri gadjama gaga di gadjama affalo pinx
gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen
gaga di bling blong
gaga blung
- Karawane
- jolifanto bambla o falli bambla
großgiga m'pfa habla horem
egiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa olobo
hej tatta gorem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluwu ssubudu
tumba ba-umf
kusa gauma
ba – umf
- Seepferdchen und Flugfische
- tressli bessli nebogen leila
flusch kata
ballubasch
zack hitti zopp
- zack hitti zopp
hitti betzli betzli
prusch kata
ballubasch
fasch kitti bimm
- zitti kitillabi billabi billabi
zikko di zakkobam
fisch kitti bisch
- bumbalo bumbalo bumbalo bambo
zitti kitillabi
zack hitti zopp
- treßli beßli nebogen grügü
blaulala violabimini bisch
violabimini bimini bimini
fusch kata
ballubasch
zick hiti zopp