Henri Chopin
Henri Chopin (1922–2008) was a French sound poet and publisher whose work with voice and tape recording pushed poetry into the realm of pure sonic material. Working from the late 1950s, he developed techniques of extreme close-microphone recording that captured the smallest sounds of his own body — breath, heartbeat, lip sounds — and transformed them through multitrack manipulation into dense audio works. He also published the magazine OU (1964–1974), one of the most important documents of international sound poetry. His practice remains foundational for experimental vocal and text-sound work.
In the archive
- La Danse Des Tonneaux Roulants Et Brisés Erratum — EM005
- Le corpsbis & co Nepless — PS 961 1001
Played on
- Mixtape — 16 April 2026 Vibrespace