Celebrating Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate

06 January 2022, The Tablet

Forty minutes long, divided into four “movements” and full of what, to an un-tutored ear, is simply abstract noise, Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate turns out to have a hatful of fans

it was wonderful that someone at Broadcasting House remembered Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and the inception of his famous, or perhaps only notorious, sound poem Ursonate

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