Marie Osmond performs part of Hugo Ball’s sound poem Karawane. I remember finding this on Hugo Ball’s page at UbuWeb back when I was doing more work on Dada. It is amazing.

It is also interesting how “wrong” Marie sounds when you are only familiar with the one recording. I recommend listening to the Hugo Ball version on the UbuWeb page before looking below, if only because it puts the tedium and discomfort of some of them in context.

(via immanent discursivity, recently on fire with good videos)

and because I felt like finding more examples of Karawane videos:

guy in fake hugo ball-style crab/chef/card-suit:

Ensemble performance:

someone animated the score that’s available at UbuWeb:

The Dada Crew, bringing you a sung version of sound poetry:

I think this is probably the Vimeo equivalent of YouTube bedroom pop song singing:

and I have no idea why this turns into some sort of anti-imperialist techno song, but maybe that is the point: