Poster promoting the eleventh installment of this landmark festival and its first appearance in North America. Originally held at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm in 1968, the festival initially focused on the technical manipulation of sound through means such as tape superimposition and vocal synthesizing. As sound poetry progressed through the 1970s, it began foregrounding the corporeality of utterance, and the the festival in turn shifted toward live performance. Steve McCaffery, in his contribution to the eleventh festivals catalogue, notes, "The trend towards live performance has been maintained and, perhaps the most singular feature of this North American Debut, the prominence given to collective and group performance: the simultaneous work of Jackson Mac Low, the multi-voice pieces of Jerome Rothenberg, the two British groups Konkrete Canticle and JGJGJGJGall mark an exciting expansion with in that contradictory, indefinable, violently diversified and exhilaratingly int