10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces, by Various Artists

10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces

by Various Artists

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Joseph Zitt That turned me on to text-sound and sound poetry, millennia ago. Glad to have it in digital. Favorite track: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt).

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1.	Charles Amirkhanian - Just 04:33	buy track
2.	Charles Amirkhanian - Heavy Aspirations 06:04	buy track
3.	Clark Coolidge - Preface (excerpt) 05:46	buy track
4.	John Cage - 62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham 06:23	buy track
5.	John Giorno - Give It to Me, Baby 05:38	buy track
6.	Anthony Gnazzo - The Population Explosion 04:43	buy track
7.	Charles Dodge - Speech Songs (excerpt: No. 1, When I Am with You) 01:43	buy track
8.	Charles Dodge - Speech Songs (excerpt No. 2, He Destroyed Her Image) 02:05	buy track
9.	Robert Ashley - In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women (excerpt) 03:57	buy track
10.	Beth Anderson - Torero Piece (excerpt) 03:49	buy track
11.	Brion Gysin - Come to Free the Words 03:33	buy track
12.	Liam O'Gallagher - Border Dissolve in Audiospace 12:48	buy track
13.	Aram Saroyan - crickets 03:29	buy track

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The best-selling recording in the history of American sound poetry, 10+2 was a novelty at the time of its release in 1975, when unpitched speech was rarely used outside of literary circles as performance material. Out of print for 20 years and available now for the first time on CD, this definitive anthology of speech music by composers, writers, and artists contains examples of the best work of Charles Amirkhanian, Beth Anderson, Robert Ashley, John Cage, Clark Coolidge, Charles Dodge, John Giorno, Anthony Gnazzo, Brion Gysin, Liam O’Gallagher, and Aram Saroyan.

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released December 21, 2004

Originally released in January 1975 as 1750 Arch Records S-1752
Recorded in Dolby Process at 1750 Arch Street
Produced by Charles Amirkhanian, November 1974
Master tape of original album produced by Robert Shumaker
CD mastering by Ken Lee Mastering, September 2003 ℗ 2003 Other Minds, Inc
Design by Jim Newman, adapted from original LP design by Sharon Stein and Robert Leverant

Just ℗ 1973 Arts Plural Publishing (BMI)
Heavy Aspirations ℗ 1974 Arts Plural Publishing (BMI)
62 Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham ℗ 1970 with the kind permission of Henmar Press (Peters Edition) (BMI)
The Population Explosion ℗ 1969 Anthony Gnazzo (ASCAP)
Speech Songs ℗ 1973 North Cape Music (ASCAP)
In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women ℗ 2002 Lovely Music (BMI)
Torero Piece ℗ 1973 Beth Anderson (BMI)

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