Lingual Music
(Paradigm Discs) 2xCD $20.65
Lily Greenham was Danish, spent her childhood in Vienna and after several relocations across Europe settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Nearly all of her own writings and compositions date from after her arrival in London, but prior she had been involved in two major European art movements: The Wienner Group in the late 1950s and the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel in 1964. In London she began to record her own text-based compositions that use a mixture of sound poetry techniques, electronics and multi-tracking. “Lingual music” is a term she coined for her compositions and refers to her technique of using tape loops of text to create complex and dense musical structures. This 2xCD set compiles live solo performances, film soundtrack pieces, and many tape pieces. There are also examples of her performing works by Britain’s best known sound poet Bob Cobbing, Rühm and other sound poets, as well as recordings of her work with Bob Downes Open Music. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1984.