Art Rimbaud Project: Project Info
Why and how it all started...
In merely 37 years of a life that encompassed a spectrum
from exuberantly exhilarating to crushingly tragic, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur
Rimbaud (20.10.1854 - 10.11.1891) created a body of poetry and autobiographical
texts that were unique and groundbreaking in their time... and still are
today.
Arthur Rimbaud's style has influenced a large number of artists throughout
the times and still continues to do so over a century after his death.
Considered an outcast and rebel by the majority of his era's society,
his genius being appreciated by only a few while he lived, Arthur Rimbaud
is today acknowledged as a visionary, one of the first proponents of the
free verse style and a predecessor to the surrealists.
The intensity and the timeless emotional impact of Arthur Rimbaud's work
make his poetry the perfect song lyrics. A project aiming at composing
songs based on a selection of Rimbaud's poems was long predestined to
be.
In 1994 Hector Zazou - together with artists such as Bill Laswell, Dead
Can Dance, John Cale, David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Tim Simenon
- produced Sahara Blue, an album with twelve songs based on English
translations of Rimbaud poems.
In 2004 an enthused group of professional artists has teamed up under
the name ISCH ART to make a similar and just as ambitious project happen,
this time using not only English but also German translations of Arthur
Rimbaud poems as well as original French texts.
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The members of ISCH ART are
(contributions to the project in brackets):
|
Aline
Verney |
|
Michael
Korotschenko |
|
Helmut Halfmann |
|
Martin Diehl |
|
Roland Scheidel |
|
Uwe Henke |
|
Tony Caulfield |
|
Halfmann & Scheidel Publishing |