Reporting from San Francisco — At the end of World War I, Hugo Ball, founder of the Dada movement, stood on the stage of his short-lived Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, and, understanding the ...

It’s time again for the annual Other Minds Festival, this year at ODC Theater in San Francisco: 22 sound poets from five different countries. Sound poetry? Yes. Hear me out. Or rather, hear artistic ...

To understand sound poetry, the form Dutch artist Jaap Blonk has dedicated his life to, you have to understand the Dada movement. Dadaism stems from Marcel Duchamp’s coining of a kind of “anti-art” in ...

Sound poetry – sounds preposterous, right? Surely it’s some micro-niche full of self-important avant-gardists braying on about the experimental intersections of language, music and theater? If you ...

Sonia Chandra, who double-majored in poetry writing and biology. After graduation, Chandra will become a researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Joanna Clark, who ...

Jackson Mac Low, a prolific poet who questioned the nature of poetry and became a pioneer in liberating language from logic and lifting it into the realm of sound and performance, died Wednesday at ...

Pianist Ken Berman's friendship with the late poet Eythan Klamka served as the inspiration for Sound Poetry, a musical project of mostly original compositions bookended by two solo reinterpretations ...

Though Julie Andrews' practically perfect singing voice was irreparably damaged in 1997 when she underwent botched throat surgery, the actress's innate musicality is irrepressible. Her new book, Julie ...