Lily Greenham

Lily Greenham (1924-2001) was a sound poet, composer and visual artist, born in Vienna. In 1938 she fled to Copenhagen, and she later lived in Paris and London, where she died. She is known for what she called lingual music, a term she coined in 1973 for tape pieces made by layering and processing recordings of her own voice. Greenham returned to Vienna in 1952 to study at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts and became involved with the Wiener Gruppe, performing sound and concrete poetry.