Jack Ox: Ursonate by Marina La Palma

the magazine: October, 2011

Handmade scores of Kurt Schwitters' performance of his Ursonate.

Ox' scores for the Ursonate visualization.

The Urstory, how the original Kurt Schwitters' performance, published by WERGO, came to be discovered. You can buy the Cd at this site and play it as you go through the visual images.

The visual themes that Ox used as metaphors for Schwitters' Ursonate phonetic themes.

Installation shot of the First Movement of the Ursonate, photographed at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, 2004.

Installation shot of the Fourth Movement of the Ursonate, photographed at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, 2004.

The process used to create the visualization: reprinted from Leonardo Music Journal in 1993.

This is the first movement of the Ursonate. You can click on any section and enter the larger images of a 1' x 8' section. From there you can move through over 50 pages, including the phonetics (lyrics) that are visualized.

This is the second movement, the Adagio.

This is the third movement, the Scherzo and the Trio.

This is the fourth movement, to be perfomed in presto.

Ernst Schwitters' letter of documentation as to the source for the WERGO CD, the voice of his father, Kurt Schwitters.letter

Installation shots from the Los Alamos Mesa Library Gallery, September through October, 2011.

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