KARAWANE
jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla
grossiga m’pfa habla horem
égiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung
blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa ólobo
hej tatta gôrem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluw ssubudu
tumba ba- umf
kusagauma
ba - umf
-Hugo Ball (1886-1927)
I’ve actually heard a recording of this - IIRC it’s one part of three read simultaneously. Pretty nifty stuff.
I found this performance of Karawane, purportedly by Marie Osmond(!).
And then I found this performance of Gadli Beri Bimba, which also eventually became Talking Heads’ I Zimbra!
I love Dada almost as much as I love surrealism. Back in college, I was the only person in my art history class to laugh out loud at Magritte’s painting as soon as it flashed up on the screen. My instructor asked if anyone knew why I was laughing. No one answered, so he said to me “tell us why you’re laughing.”
I said “Because it’s not a pipe. It’s a painting of a pipe.”
Then he and I were the only people laughing. Looking back, I wonder if everyone else thought that somehow they had been insulted! :p:dubious::rolleyes:
I’m in a Dada-influenced rock band. Our singer does dadaist poetry through a vocoder in some of our pieces.
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Uhm. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Am I doing it right?
Talking Heads? Marie Osmond? Is Dada perhaps a wee bit overexposed? The Kerouac of oddball art movements?
BTW, the original 1917 printing of Karawane contained an array of presumably extinct European-looking letterpress fonts. I made only a rough attempt to approximate them here.
Dada is not dead
Watch your overcoat
Primiti too taa.
(A very poor, low-res transfer of a film that was originally shot on IMAX, believe it or not.)