Revue OU Deluxe Box Set, 2012

Milan, Italy: Alga Marghen (boxed CD set, original art, book, LP), 2012
13.25" x 13.25" x 3.75", multiple items, boxed, numbered, limited.

One of the "De-luxe" sets of this retrospective of Henri Chopin's Revue OU. A dense and rich item containing CDs and LPs, books, reproductions, and original (signed) art.  See contents below for more details.  This copy is #22 of 30 such copies [plus an additional 5 A.P. copies], although the limitation sheet notes #30 (all other items are #22). 

Burroughs-related items include:

•  A copy of the original pressing of OU Revue-Disque 40-41 (as included in Revue OU, issue 40-41).  This contains a recording of William S. Burroughs' Valentine's Day Reading from 1965
• A reproduction of the poster "For William Burroughs" that was included in Revue OU, issue 38-39, which includes quotation from Burroughs
• A quote from Burroughs on Henri Chopin
• Both the aforementioned Valentine's Day Reading (from issue 40-41), and also "Reading" (from issue 42-43-44) in CD form
• Mention in the OU – Cinquième Saison: Complete Recordings book

Acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg, Water Row Books, who brokered the sale from an Alga Marghen distributor in the US.

Contents: 

• Four CDs with the Complete OU recordings:
• Disc 1:
• OU 20-21:
• Bernard Heidsieck : "Poème-partition"
• Brion Gysin: "I am" 
• Brion Gysin: "Pistol-poem"
• Henri Chopin: "Vibrespace"
• OU 23-24:
• François Dufrêne: "Batteries Vocales"
• François Dufrêne: "Paix en Algérie"
• François Dufrêne: "Ténu-tenu"
• Mimmo Rotella: "7 Poèmes phonétiques"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Poème-partition J"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Le Quatrième Plan"
• Brion Gysin: "3 Permutations"
• Henri Chopin: "L'energie du sommeil"
• OU 26-27:
• Raoul Hausmann: "b b b b et F m s b w"
• Raoul Hausmann: "K' perioum" 
• Raoul Hausmann: "Poème sans titres"
• Raoul Hausmann: "Oiseautal"
• Raoul Hausmann: Chanson, Vali tali, baste"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "La Convention Collective"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "La Cage"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "L'Exercise"
• Henri Chopin: "Indicatif 1"
• Henri Chopin: "La Fusée Interplanétaire"
• Disc 2:
• OU 28-29:
• François Dufrêne: "Triptycrirythme"
• Paul de Vree: "Veronika"
• Paul de Vree: "Ogenblik"
• Paul de Vree: "Kleine Caroli"
• Paul de Vree: "Vertigo Gli"
• Paul de Vree: "Een Roos a Rose"
• Henri Chopin: "Sol Air"
• OU 30-31:
• Henri Chopin: "Le Corps"
• Henri Chopin: "Brisure de Corps"
• Henri Chopin: "Chant du Corps"
• OU 33:
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Quel âge avez-vous?"
• François Dufrêne: "Dédié à H. Chopin"
• Gil J. Wolman: "La Mémoire"
• Henri Chopin: "Le Ventre de Bertini"
• Disc 3:
• OU 34-35:
• François Dufrêne: "Haut-Satur" (3 parts)
• Bob Cobbing: "Marvo Movie Natter"
• Bob Cobbing: "Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire"
• Henri Chopin: "Mes Branches"
• OU 36-37:
• Ladislav Novak: "La Structure Phonétique de la Langue Tchèque"
• Hugh Davies: "Shozyg 1&2"
• Sten Hanson: "Don't Hesitate do it, do it right now"
• Sten Hanson: "The Glorious Desertion"
• Henri Chopin:"2500, les Grenouilles d'Aristophane"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Ravaillac, tu connais?"
• Disc 4:
• OU 38-39:
• Henri Chopin: "Le Rire est Debout"
• Bengt Emil Johnson: "(Among) Us"
• Sten Hanson: "Revolution"
• Sten Hanson: "Railroad Poem"
• Jacques Bekaert: "The Day After"
• OU 40-41:
• J. A. da Silva: "Audio-poem"
• William Burroughs: "Valentine Day Reding"
• Brion Gysin: "Poems"
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Chapeau!"
• Henri Chopin: "Le Soleil est mécanique"
• OU 42-43-44:
• William Burroughs: "Reading"
• Ake Hodell: "Numro Ba Besch"
• Charles Amirkhanian: "Each ' LL"
• Ladislav Novak: "Two poems"
• Arthur Rimbaud: "Le Vrai Sonnet des Voyelles"
• Henri Chopin: "Les Mandibules du Déjeuner sur l'Herbe"
• OU Revue-Disque 40-41, original pressing LP:
• Side A:
• J. A. da Silva: "Audio-poèm" (1971)
• William Burroughs: "Valentine Day Reading" (1965)
• Side B:
• Brion Gysin: "Poems" (1960-1962)
• Bernard Heidsieck: "Passe-Partout no. 4" (1970)
• Henri Chopin: "Audio-poem" (1972)
• OU – Cinquième Saison: Complete Recordings (book, #22/35 copies, 66 pages, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Henri Chopin: 
• foreword
• "Cinquième Saison / About OU" 
• "Expressions and Techniques"
• "An Autobiographical Essay"
• "Open Letter to Aphonic Musicians"
• "Sequel to 'Open Letter...'"
• "Le Corps"
• "Pêche de Nuit"
• Nicholas Zurbrugg: "Living with the Twentieth Century"
• François Dufrêne: "Pragmatic of Crirythme"
• Hugh Davies: "Henri Chopin: A British Viewpoint"
  
• Bob Cobbing: "Notes"
• Jacques Bekaert: "Henri Chopin in My Life..."
• Sten Hanson: "The Phenomenon Henri Chopin"
• reproductions of original labels
• testimonies (including from William S. Burroughs)
• Henri Chopin: 
• "The Body is a Sound Factory & Co." (LP, #22/30, yellow vinyl) 
• "La chair des siècles" (book, #22/35 copies, softcover)
• "il faut bien rire un peu" ("You've Got To Laugh") (booklet, 10.5" x 10.5", 14 pages)
• "For William Burroughs" (reproduced poster, 21" x 21")
• "les voix puissantes couraivent les ronds des ciels!!!" (original Dactylopoem, dated 11/4/2002, signed by Henri Chopin, in a sleeve numbered #22/30)
• "Attention Pozor" (1 page reproduction, 21" x 10.5")
• "On Marcelle Cahn" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "J'ai le nez sec" (1 page reproduction from Festival of Fort Boyard, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "La femme au 100 000 vagins" (1 page reproduction of a collage, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "Cut-ups-collage [Balch/Burroughs/Sommerville]" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "Nous sommes tous des emigrès" (1 page poster reproduction, 21" x 10.5")
• "Machine Poem" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Bob Cobbing: 
• xerox art work in a sleeve numbered #22/30
• "Marvo Movies+Apollinaire" (1 page poster reproduction, 10.5" x 21")
• Sten Hanson: "Visual Poem" (signed copy of a visual poem, numbered #22/25, in a sleeve numbered #22/30)
• Bernard Heidsieck: 
• "Revue 'OU' No 46" (original collage, signed on recto and numbered on verso #22/30, in a sleeve numbered #22/30)
• "H1 + H2" (4 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
  
• Jacques Bekaert: "The Day After" (4 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Les Aëlys: "Art Force Souplesse" (2 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Paul de Vree and Jan Bruyndonckx: "Veronika" (4 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Tom Phillips: "Irma" (poster reproduction, 21" x 21")
• Yaacov Agam: "Obb jjet So no re" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Yves Klein: "Yves Klein Est Vivant" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Pierre Albert-Birot: "4 Poèmes" (4 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Anna Lockwood: "Sound Hat" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Paul de Vree: "Toute Predication" (1 page reproduction on vellum, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Richard Orton: "Concert Music 6" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Raoul Hausmann: 
• "Kp'erioum" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "Cogito Ergo Sum Dada" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Arrigo Lora-Totino: "Modo" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• John Cage: "mesostic" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Hugh Davies: "Shozyg" (1 page reproduction, 21" x 10.5")
• Henri Chopin and John Furnival: "Pisa" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Gianni Bertini: "Annonce pour l'Œil Ecoute" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Michel Seuphor: "Aux esprit libres" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Stefan Themerson: "The Potentialities of Radio" (2 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• Auditorium de la Binennale program (2 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")
• "A Concert event for Lenny Bruce" (1 page reproduction, 10.5" x 10.5")