Henri Chopin (b. 1922, France – d. 2008, UK)
Rouge, 1956

Some of Chopin’s concrete and sound poetry lies surprisingly closely to my experiments with Artificial Ignorance Choir – e.g. in repetition of words until they become just sounds, occasionally also causing one to hear other words.

I also appreciate his deliberate blurring of categories – “sound poetry” or “typewriter poetry”- which is also characteristic to my own practice. His typewriter poetry is quite relevant for me as well, as repetition and re-arrangement within a limited set of signs forming a larger work is one of the methods I am employing both in sound and in painting. It is interesting on so many levels – from purely formal qualities to transferability of the method between various media to scalability where seemingly minimalist means can be aggregated into complex – almost maximalist – works.