Blog | Demetrio Stratos as Antonin Artaud |
Jesse found another gem on YouTube and forwarded to me. Here it is!
Courteousy UBUweb:
Demetrio Stratos was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 22 April 1945. He studied the pianoforte and the accordion at the Conservatoire National d’Athenes. In 1962, he moved to Italy, where he enrolled in the Architecture Faculty at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1967, he joined the “Ribelli” rock group as keyboard player; he soon adandoned this to dedicate his activities to voice research. He started to experiment on vocal phenomena…
His research into the field of phonetic and experimental poetry led to his freeing his voice every naturalistic restraint, restoring its depth and dimension. The result of this van be heard in the two recordings of his compositions “Metrodora” and “Cantare la Voce” where what sounds like an instrument is in fact his voice.
He died in June 1979 at the New York Memorial Hospital. He was admitted the evening before a concert held on his behalf at the Milan Area. Over 100 musicians played in front of an audience of 100,000.
November 30th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Wasn’t Demetrio Stratos a founding member of the 70s Italian Art-Rock group Area?
November 30th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Never mind: that fact is mentioned on the Ubu web site. Your excerpt would lead one to believe that you’re quoting the whole piece, instead of just presenting selected bits of the Ubu article.
Dan
December 1st, 2006 at 1:51 am
Point taken, Dan. Where’s an * or three when you need them?