START! vinyl poetics

a selection of 28 records are the starting point.
currently, they are part of an exhibition at the vienna poetry school (sfd), showing “examples of poetic messages on record of an overwhelming wealth and variety”, “originating in the shadow of commercial pop production”, between 1950 and now.
the exhibition features no sound, no poetry, no music or text. only the album covers offer an entrance into poetic worlds, invite or repel, explain or remain cryptic.
28 of these album covers were selected for the sfd online class. they should inspire to create, as a free starting point for direct interpretation, silent inspiration or any other type of examination the participants choose.

each participant selects a cover (a total of up to seven), searches for, analyses, speculates about the sounds and texts of the record; invents his/her own, new ones – what might “fit” better? answers to the input, interprets, celebrates or ignores them, takes a position.
colour, graphics, images, text, all parts of the cover can be at the beginning (and the end).

what is created is poetry, spoken word, lyrics or other short poetic texts which, in the end, will be juxtaposed with the “original” and commented by kalle laar.

texts can be written in german or english.

register, choose a cover, contribute a text and receive a comment from kalle laar
>> http://sfd.at/laar

kalle aldis laar

*1955. sound artist, composer, radio play writer, dj. exhibitions, performances, interdisciplinary projects. radio plays & features for, amongst others, bayerischer and südwest rundfunk. talks & lectures on sound, power and politics, noise and art, and about media and vinyl history. lectureships in munich, singapore, berlin. lives in munich and vienna.
www.soundmuseum.com

(c) jens mauritz

the selected album covers (view in full size after registration >> http://sfd.at/laar):