Outside the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds

By Daniel Mackenzie.

"The Dada principles applied to my alteration of the original recording concern the abstraction of sound and language, swapping the unconventional approach to syllabic form seen in the early 20th century for a contemporary alternative. I have misused a not particularly special piece of pitch correction software to dramatically alter the vowel sounds in the reading, almost removing them entirely from their source. What remains around these is most of the sibilance, and snippets of sonic ambience. Though famously anti facist, Dada sadly did very little to prevent the continuation of violence at the time. The effected sound hints at this in the subjective pointlessness of words stripped of substance, understandable by nobody, perhaps not even those responsible for their utterance."