Gerd Stern
 
spinet pieces Spinett, World Premiere, 2004
(with Charlie Morrow, text see below)
statement Gerd Stern is a poet and visual artist. He has collaborated with sounds creator Charlie Morrow before this presentation of" Separate & Unequal". Speedy and irreverent the piece is vocalization breaking
"in the beginning was the word" mind processors into syllabic frag. References, humor, consanguinity become meaningful. Listening is not the same as hearing if overstanding's a goal.
link www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/stern.html
country USA
bio Stern, a founder of the "60's multimedia commune USCO and the group's electronicist Michael Callahan are working toward a three night late March event at Anthology Film Archives in New York and the recreation of installations for the Tate Museum's "Summer of Love"
exhibition opening May in Liverpool. Stern is the author of three volumes of poetry. His oral history was published by the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.
poem

SPINETT

s s s s s s

puh puh puh puh peeeee

in in not out in pee pin stick spin

et like tete et not ate eat et

et cetera little et diminutive

toilette head et al

shpinette shpin und sinn wahr sinn nett

sehr nett shpin ette

spin span spun top spin et

play say sag mihr et was

spinett ok

spine thorn spinney

when miss delights in her spinet

a fiddler may a fortune get

ergo sum spinett