Daily Dose of Dada

Here’s your daily dose of dada, a sound poem entitled “L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer,” written in 1916 for the Caberet Voltaire by Tristain Tzara, Richard Hulsenbeck and Marcel Janco. Wonderful madness, featuring non-human human sounds. According to the description on Ubuweb, where the poem now lives:

"L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer" is one of the best known examples of Dada tonal poetry, in which several voices speak, sing, whistle, etc. simultaneously in such a way that the resulting combinations account for the total effect of the work. The simultaneous poem demonstrates the value of the human voice and is a powerful illustration of the fact that an organic work of art has a will of its own.

The version featured here is not an original recording but one made by the Italian Trio Excoco: Hanna Aurbacher, Theophil Maier and Ewald Liska.