Ursonate in Arabic Pronunciation
2016
Audio and booklet, 30 min
How do you translate a nonsensical German-sounding text or sound into Arabic? Danish’s work refers to Kurt Schwitters’s Ursonate (a written phonetic poem with notations in German, made between 1923 and 1932). Ursonate in Arabic Pronunciation presents a written Arabic translation of Schwitter’s original work, as well as an audio recording that follows the structure of the original text.