{"id":1890,"date":"2010-02-09T23:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1890"},"modified":"2010-02-09T23:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:06:31","slug":"sten-hanson-se-variations-on-a-theme-by-laaban","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1890","title":{"rendered":"Sten Hanson | Variations on a Theme by Laaban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sten Hanson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in Kl&ouml;vsj&ouml;, Sweden in 1936, Sten Hanson first came to prominence in the early &#8217;60s as an experimental poet and composer. He pioneered the use of tape-recording techniques in the renewal and development of poetry, and as a means to expand the limitations of language. One of the forerunners in the field of multi-media art, Hanson&#8217;s combined his theories of &#8218;Text-sound-visual image&#8216; with intensely personal live performances. From his earliest pieces consisting of rough cut-and-paste tape collages, through to the later use of computer to apply effects, Hanson &#8217;s voice remains the focus throughout.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An influential figure in the Swedish art scene his varied productions includes instrumental and electronic music, and work for dance, theatre, radio and television.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/sten-hanson.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/sten-hanson.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Variations on a Theme by Laaban<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/gruenrekorder\/1\/playing_with_words\/13_Variations_on_a_Theme_by_Laaban_by_Sten_Hanson.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This piece was made for and first performed at a memorial evening in April 2001 for the newly deceased sound poet Ilmar Laaban.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The text is taken from a sound poem by him, &#8218;Tre brev fr&OElig;&aring;n den dove&#8216; (&#8218;Three letters from the deep-mouthed one&#8216;), performed at the second festival of Text-sound compositions in April 1969. &ldquo;Don Juans gylf&rdquo; means &ldquo;Don Juan&#8217;s fly&rdquo;. Turned around to &ldquo;Gylf-Juans don&rdquo; it means &ldquo;Fly-Juan&#8217;s dick&rdquo;. The word &ldquo;don&rdquo; can signify (with slightly changed pronunciation) tool, mechanical gadget, dick or thunder. All the sounds in this composition are made by digital transformations and extensions of these three words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The piece by Laaban was made at a time when the fly was still closed by buttons. It was supposed to be very shameful to walk around with the fly open, and many people were seen doing a now forgotten compulsory gesture with the right hand towards the fly to verify that it was properly buttoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sten Hanson Born in Kl&ouml;vsj&ouml;, Sweden in 1936, Sten Hanson first came to prominence in the early &#8217;60s as an experimental poet and composer. He pioneered the use of tape-recording techniques in the renewal and development of poetry, and as a means to expand the limitations of language. One of the forerunners in the field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1890","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}