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Augusto De Campos

Augusto De Campos

Augusto De Campos was first played on NTS on 29 July 2020. Songs played include Pulsar.

Augusto de Campos (born February 14th, 1931, São Paulo) is a Brazilian poet, translator, music critic and visual artist who, together with his brother Haroldo de Campos, founded the Concrete poetry movement in worldwide literature. He is also the co­author of the essay "Teoria da Poesia Concreta" (Theory of Concrete Poetry) with Haroldo and Décio Pignatari.

As a poetry translator, Augusto specialized in working with the writings of avant­garde authors such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Russian Vladimir Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov.

His work in the music field includes the 1976 single "Dias, Dias, Dias/Volta" with Caetano Veloso, the collaboration with Tom Zé's "Senhor Cidadão" with de Campos' poem "Cidade/City/Cité", as well as compositions with avantgarde composer Walter Franco in 1972.

With Cid Campos, Augusto recorded the album "Poesia é Risco" (Poetry is Risk), released in 1995, developing the recordings into a multimedia performance tour with the same title - a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry, music and image.

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Augusto De Campos

Augusto De Campos was first played on NTS on 29 July 2020. Songs played include Pulsar.

Augusto de Campos (born February 14th, 1931, São Paulo) is a Brazilian poet, translator, music critic and visual artist who, together with his brother Haroldo de Campos, founded the Concrete poetry movement in worldwide literature. He is also the co­author of the essay "Teoria da Poesia Concreta" (Theory of Concrete Poetry) with Haroldo and Décio Pignatari.

As a poetry translator, Augusto specialized in working with the writings of avant­garde authors such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, E.E. Cummings, Russian Vladimir Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov.

His work in the music field includes the 1976 single "Dias, Dias, Dias/Volta" with Caetano Veloso, the collaboration with Tom Zé's "Senhor Cidadão" with de Campos' poem "Cidade/City/Cité", as well as compositions with avantgarde composer Walter Franco in 1972.

With Cid Campos, Augusto recorded the album "Poesia é Risco" (Poetry is Risk), released in 1995, developing the recordings into a multimedia performance tour with the same title - a "verbivocovisual" show of poetry, music and image.

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Pulsar
Caetano Veloso, Augusto De Campos
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