Photo and design by Sal Nunkachov. Released on the occasion of the first Letra Sound and Concrete Poetry Festival. Leiria 2024. Hear Say Records 03. Hear Say is the sound department of Paper View. ‘Ubu Hubbub’ is a tirade that pays homage to Ubu Roi (the pea-brained, pot-bellied dictator made famous by Alfred Jarry). ‘And Sometimes’ exhaustively enumerates all the English words that do not contain any of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, U). ‘Valuvëula’ is an alien hymn, originally written for an episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science-fiction show Earth: Final Conflict. ‘American Dada’ is a version of ‘To Make a Dadaist Poem’ by Tristan Tzara, with his text subjected to the ‘N + 7 Method’ of Oulipo. ‘NOYTA CCCP’ is a lautgedichte that pays homage to the zaum work of Velimir Khlebnikov (one of the Russian Futurists). ‘The Doomsday Song’ is a poem derived from onomatopoeia, utilized in a series of DC comics about the death of Superman. ‘Mushroom Clouds’ is part of a ‘faux aria’, inspired by the acoustic ambience in the game Super Mario Bros. by Nintendo. ‘Motorized Razors’ is an excerpt from a much longer techno lautgedichte (a work in progress entitled The Cyborg Opera). Tracks 01, 02, 04, 05, 08, 09, 14, recorded at SUNY in Buffalo, NY (2000). Tracks 03, 11, 12, recorded in studio at Haus für Poesie in Berlin, DE (2013). Track 06, recorded live at Teesside University in Darlington, UK (2014). Tracks 07, 10, recorded at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, PA (2009). Track 13, recorded live at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, PA (2005).