https://www.diewellenmaschine.com/thursdayssalon-wellenmaschine/
The “Ursonate” (Primeval Sonata), written between 1922 and 1932 by the versatile Hanoverian DADA/Merz artist and author Kurt Schwitters, is now considered a masterpiece of classical sound poetry. The 30-minute long poem does not use any words at all. Letters and groups of letters are set against each other, as Schwitters put it. The result is not a cacophony of noise, but a clearly structured, rhythmically rapid spoken work in the strict form of a sonata. The work continues to provoke today with its mixture of classical form and radical rejection of meaning.
Frankfurt author and sound poet Dirk Hülstrunk presents the entire Ur-Sonate in its original form as a spoken piece for solo voice. In addition, he remixes other classic DADA texts into contemporary versions with the help of loop machines and samples. Dirk Hülstrunk takes DADA seriously. His interpretations are improvisational, playful, and contemporary.
