 Velimir Chlebnikov was born in 1885 in Tula and died in 1922 in a remote village in the Novgorod province from blood poisoning. Associated with the Russian futurist movement, he is seen as belonging to the vanguard of modern poetry and he influenced a great number of poets.
Sound plays a most important role in his vision on language in general, and this gives us the opportunity to create a musical counterpoint to it.
One of his language concepts he called 'Zaum', 'metaphysically meaningful nonsense'.
The sound of the root of a word inspired him to connect it to a multitude of different meanings.
He distinguished between the language of the birds, the language of the gods, the language of the stars, transmental language, the decomposition of words, sound-language and the language of madness.
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