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Monday 2 March 2015

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Some thoughts and work about
LANGUAGE SOUNDS


This is the opening of Kurt Schwitter’s sonnet called Ursonate made out of  German speech sounds.


Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
                                         pögiff, 
                                                     kwii Ee.
  1
Oooooooooooooooooooooooo,
6
dll rrrrr beeeee bö
dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö,                                      (A)
     rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö,
             beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää,
                        bö fümms bö wö tää zää,
                             fümms bö wö tää zää Uu:





5










We can make variations of this

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,
skr  ffff   vvvvvv   ti,
skr  ffff   vvvvvv   ti    grrrrr   ti,
       ffff   vvvvvv    ti   grrrrr    ti   mi   koo


Or you can make up your own shape

bbbbbbBBBBBBB
bbbbbbbsssssssssSSS
ssssssss SSSSSSS 
sssssssssbbbbbbb SSS

 [LOUD BURB]



Or half shape by tinkering with an already existing texts.  You'll be able to guess the song.

Cemefrere ever phe raumvez
vlue vurdc fla.
Vurdc fla
ever phe raumvez.
Fra phem eh fra cam’t U


Now see if you can write a few lines of language sounds which express the following
feelings


1                Calmness,  flowing,  peace  of   mind 

2                A disruption toe calmness etc

3                Frantic action to restore calm

5                Calm returns but it's different











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