A documentation (English/German) of SONGS WITH WORDS, 13.7.2012, a concert, with toned poems by Tanya Ury (poems in English and German) and Kasander Nilist (double bass and sound mix), 2012, and improvisation – free improvised music: Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Alexius Worringer (electric guitar), Featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat appear – lautquälerei, improvised poetry mostly in English with German) performed in the Kunstraum St. Michael, Brüsseler Platz, Cologne (D) was filmed Parisa Karimi & Mehrnaz Asadi, edited by Tanya Ury and Mirco Sanftleben and produced by Tanya Ury. http://www.artundamen.de/index.php/Künstlerdetails/events/91.html

Documentation, 47:00 minutes: http://vimeo.com/49010713
Trailer, 4:12 minutes: http://vimeo.com/49156210

The musicians are all active in the very lively free improvised music scene in Cologne and Düsseldorf. The open sessions: Improvisatorium Cologne, the summer and winter sessions in Düsseldorf, for free improvised forms of music are unique to the locality.

Having developed her projects with concrete poetry Tanya Ury embarked on a venture of improvised poetry with sound intensity and word play.

In its style and intention the concrete poetry is a collection of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is improvised and written down immediately - in essence it is automatic writing.

Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as “concrete” because of its visual design, and unconventional aural effect when spoken - the texts thereby gain in dimension beyond accepted meaning.

Ury has also created other artworks that might be considered visual poetry. Moving Message 1992, incorporates an LED sign displaying the words: you are why; wrestlewithyourangel 2001, is a neon sign produced together with the neon sign neonazi 2001; the title of a double photo portrait lesser is me more or less 2003 plays on the name of the German Post-Impressionist Lesser Ury, as does the title of a further double portrait or else 2007, which refers to the German writer Else Ury. The title of a third photo-portrait Beelzebularin 2005 reveals itself to be an anagram of the biblical Bezalel Ben Uri. half dimensional - semi detached 2010 combines the first of the half dimensional poems with the photograph semi detached.

Concrete poetry in the series:

femiNINIty – femininiation 1984 & 2011
moving message 1992
Word-fore-play - Recipe for Love 1995
Sonata in Sea 1999-2000
wish 2000
wrestlewithyourangel 2001
neonazi 2001
Poker Poems 2003
elle la poésie 2003
lesser is me more or less 2003
Beelzebularin 2005
Un 2006
or else 2007
half dimensional poems 2009-2011
half dimensional - semi detached 2010
cement 2011 -
on a mat appear 2011 -
Lost Poems 2011
weißer neger (white nigger) 2011
powdercake 19.12.2004 & 15.5.2011
informed 2011
concrete party 2011
oral call 2011
cross word 2011-2012
toned poems 2011-2012
two toned 2012

ROLAND GRAETER

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what does this mean?
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my inner alien is
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Ja, ich werde mir
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bis in alle Ewigkeit
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this sour thing for loving
because it makes me happy
all the minutes of happiness
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when I was going along
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with my lemon-like face
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we came together eating
our favourite
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and most erotic reception
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mal wieder
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maybe coming from
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where I came from
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he was so eccentric
what’s he talking about
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I didn’t come out of
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stop

voices voices
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yeah, that’s the right word
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wie ein guter weisswein
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when we taste it together
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wir könnten einen guten
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ink ink ink
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lecker lecker lecker lecker
lecker lecker lecker lecker
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I lay me down
my cloud over all this
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over all that thinking
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I don’t need it
musical loud
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yes, sure
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with my temporary…
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diet
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need some diet
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diet of diet daily
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diet diet diet diet
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it’s easy reading
every minute leaving
in die bluesharp
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bitte mitte
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richtig richtig
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mit mit mit mit
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die immer in gefahr werden
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ja, ja, diese zinkbadewannen
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stell da 5 zusammen
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I say you won again
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