henri chopin

With Saturday night bringing useless light entertainment spewing into your front room here's something to make the Robbie Williams fans hide behind the sofa crying.

The author of this blog had only just stumbled across sound poetry when Henri Chopin died at the start of 2008. So his loss wasn't properly appreciated at the time - which means giving credit for being such a fantastic artist is way overdue.

Almost inevitably UbuWeb has probably the most comprehensive collection of audio and video of Chopin at work. There's also his statement on Why I am the Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry. The film presented in partnership with Erratum.

For those of you too lazy to click links here's something from 2005. It's both on UbuWeb and on YouTube - although on the latter you will have to put up with the dumbass comments underneath.

Now I feel better. Fucking family entertainment. Fucking celebrities. Yeah that's right - we're fucking coming for you.