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Vladimir Maïakovski (1893-1930) 1. Une aventure extraordinaire arrivée á Vladimir Maïkovski en été à la datcha -- niéobytchaïnoié priklioutchénié, byvcheié s Vladimirom Maïakovskim liétom na datché, 1920 (1.47) 2. écoutez ! - poslouchaïté, 1914 (0.54) 3. Ordinanza all'esercito dell'arte (1918) (1:54) 4. Rumori, rumorini e rumoracci (1913) (1:03) 5. Di strada in strada (1913) (1:04) Tracks 1, 2 from the CD lunapark 0,10 (Sub Rosa Aural Documents SR80) Edited by Marc Dachy Tracks 3, 4, 5 performed by Valerij Voskobojnikov Recorded February 1977 in Milan from the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records, Milan) Vladimir Vladimirovic Majakovskij (1894-1930) was born in Georgia in the village of Bagdad the son of a forestry inspector. Afterl his father's death in 1906 he moved to Moscow. In 1908 he left school to dedicate himself to political activities. He joined the illegal Bolshevik party and was arrested three times. In 1911 he entered the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he met David Burlifik, who encouraged him to write poetry. An adherent of cubofuturism, with other futurists he toured southern Russia at the end of 1913 and the beginning of 1914. In October 1915 he was conscripted and posted to the motorization school at Petrograd as a draughtsman. He greeted the Revolution with enthusiasm. In November 1918 his drama "Misterija Buff' ("Funny Mystery") was performed . From 1919 to 1922 he worked at the Rosta (Russian Telegraphic Agency). He went abroad on a number of occasions, preferring Berlin and Paris; in 1925 he visited America. In 1926 he travelled extensively in the Soviet Union tirelessly reciting his poems. Early in 1930 he organized a exhibition of twenty years of his literary work at the Writers' Club in Moscow. He died, apparently by suicide, on the 14th of April of the same year. UbuWeb Sound | UbuWeb PennSound | GreyLodge | Artmob | EPC | WFMU