“In February of 1979, I happened to hear Schwitters' “Ursonate” read by a student of the Arnhem Drama School, at a poetry event in that city. The piece was quite a revelation to me, and with no delay I looked up the piece in Schwitters' collected works at the Utrecht University Library and made photocopies of it. At the time, however, I had no intention at all to be a voice performer. I had begun composing pieces of instrumental music. The “Ursonate” was on a shelf in my room and, every once in a while, I took it out and read sections of it aloud. This went on for about two-and-a-half years, and by the fall of 1981 I realized that I almost knew the piece by heart. Looking back at this from a much later time, I am very much aware of the benefits of this slow process of internalizing the piece. I gradually and intuitively formed my own interpretation of it, without any pressure from outside and without any knowledge of versions of it by other performers.
To make a long story short: since then, I have presented between 300 and 400 public performances of the complete work, and many more of single movements from it. I am very happy to make it available again as a CD.”
CD in a gatefold card case (12,5 x 14 cm), 5 titled tracks with a total running time of about 20 minutes; tracks 1-4 recorded by Kasper Frenkel at Electric Monkey Studio in Zaandam on February 13, 2024; track 5 was recorded by the artist at home on October 2020, 2024; record mastered by the artist, design by David Khan-Giordano, the CD was produced by John Corbett, comes with photographs and liner notes by the artist, Chicago 2025
