New Slowscan 2LP:
Poesia Sonora dagli Archivi di Arrigo Lora-Totino
Arrigo Lora-Totino (1928-2016) was an artist and poet from Turin, Italy. He is considered one of the key figures in Italian sound poetry. Lora-Totino’s first experiments with poetry stem from the late 1950s-early 1960s, a period in which he also founded his first magazine dedicated to concrete poetry. Lora-Totino is perhaps best known for having curated the classic 7-LP album Futura: Poesia Sonora in 1978, with contributions by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla, Vladimir Majakovskij, Velemir Chlebnikov, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Gerhard Rühm, Bob Cobbing a.o. Two years later Lora-Totino curated a series of thirteen broadcasts for Italian RAI radio, in which he presented an expert overview of the history of sound poetry. Lora-Totino’s own works have been included in a number of exhibitions dedicated to sound poetry and in the collections of a number of leading art institutes and museums.
Jan van Toorn’s Slowscan has now released a double-LP with previously unpublished material from the Lora-Totino archives. Works by Arrigo Lora-Totino himself, Larry Wendt, Raoul Hausmann, Gerhard Rühm a.o. have been selected for the beautiful album Poesia Sonora dagli Archivi di Arrigo Lora-Totino, which comes with artwork by Lora-Totino on the cover and a hand numbered insert.
