Bernard Heidsieck (November 28, 1928 – November 22, 2014)
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was a French sound poet, associated with various movements throughout a long career: including Beat
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, American Fluxus
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, and minimalism.
Heidsieck was born in Paris. In the course of his career, he served as vice-president of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur
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in Paris and as president of the ''Commission Poésie'' at the Centre national du livre
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.
He organised the first international festival of sound poetry
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in 1976 and the event ''Rencontres Internationales 1980 de poésie sonore'' which took place in Rennes
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, in Le Havre
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and at the Pompidou Centre
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in Paris
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.
Bibliography
* Sitôt dit, Seghers, 1955.
* B2B3, Éditions du Castel Rose, 1964.
* "Trois biopsies" et "Un passe - partout", 1970
* Portraits-Pétales, Guy Schraenen, 1973,
* D2 + D3Z, Poèmes-Partitions, Collection Où, Henri Chopin Éditeur, 1973.
* Partition V, Éditions du Soleil Noir, 1973.
* Encoconnage, avec Françoise Janicot, Guy Schraenen, 1975
* Foules, Guy Schraenen Éditeur, 1975 (Belgique).
* Poésie action / Poésie sonore 1955-1975, Atelier Annick Le Moine, 1976.
* Participation à Tanger I et Tanger II, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 1978, 1979.
* Dis-moi ton utopie, Éditions Eter, 1975.
* Poésie sonore et caves romaines suivi de Poème-Partition D4P, Éditions Hundertmark, RFA, 1984.
* Heidsieck et Hubaut, (cassette) avec Joël Hubaut, 1984
* P puissance B, avec Radio Taxi(c), Lotta Poetica and Studio Morra, 1984
* Au delà de la poésie, with Julien Blaine and Servin, with drawings by Jean Touzot, L'Unique, 1985
* Canal Street, SEVIM/ B. Heidsieck, 1986
* Poésie et dynamite (with a text by Jean-Jacques Lebel
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), Factotumbook 38, Sarenco-Strazzer, 1986
* Derviche / Le Robert, Éditeurs Évidant, 1988.
* Poème-Partition "A", Électre Éditeur, 1992.
* D'un art à l'autre (Poésure et Peintrie), Ville de Marseille, 1993
* Poème-Partition "R", Cahiers de nuit, Caen, 1994.
* Poème-Partition "N", Les Petits classiques du grand pirate, 1995.
* Morceaux choisis supplément à Bernard Heidsieck Poésie Action, Jean-Michel Place, (CD), 1996
* Coléoptères and Co, with P.A. Gette, Yéo Éditeur, Paris, 1997.
* Poème-Partition "T", with a CD, Derrière la Salle de bains, 1998.
* Vaduz, avec un CD, Francesco Conz Éditeur/Al Dante éditeur, 1998.
* La Fin d'un millénaire, catalogue Ventabrun Art Contemporain, 2000
* Poème-Partition "Q", Derrière la salle de bains, 1999 + une autre édition en 2001.
* Bonne Anée, avec Yoland Bresson, Éditions du toit, 1999
* Respirations et brèves rencontres, with 3 CDs, Al Dante Éditeur, 2000. ( aussi en K7)
* Nous étions bien peu en ..., Onestar Press, 2001.
* Partition V, with 1 CD, réédition, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2001
* Canal Street, with 2 CDs, Al Dante Éditeur, 2001.
* Poème-Partition "F", with 1 CD, Le Corridor bleu Éditeur, 2001. (aussi en K7)
* Le carrefour de la chaussée d'Antin, with 2 CDs, Al Dante, 2001
* Partition V, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2001
* Notes convergentes, Al Dante Éditeur, 2001. ( aussi en K7)
* La poinçonneuse, with 1 CD, Al Dante Éditeur, 2003.
* Ca ne sera pas long, fidel Anthelme X, 2003.(CD)
* Lettre à Brion, CD, Al Dante Éditeur, 2004.
* Derviche ; Le Robert, with 3 CDs, Al Dante éditeur, 2004.
* Démocratie II, with 1 CD, Al Dante éditeur, 2004.
* Spermatozoïdes I (Collection Acquaviva / Derrière la Salle de Bains), 2008
* Bernard Heidsieck, Ici Radio Verona (edited by Frédéric Acquaviva, Editions Francesco Conz, Verona), 2010
* Spermatozoïdes II, Editions AcquAvivA, 2012
* Spermatozoïdes III, Editions AcquAvivA, 2012
References
External links
Archivio ConzHeidsieck is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian, 1991
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1928 births
2014 deaths
Poets from Paris
French male poets
20th-century French poets
20th-century French male writers