Published and sold on an audiocassette by Ulises Carrìon (recently rediscovered thanks to an important Alga Marghen retrospective LP) , who in 1975 "created" the legendary Amsterdam bookshop-gallery "Other Books & So," the first space dedicated exclusively to artists' publications such as artists' records, books, magazines, postcards, etc.. only 12 cassettes were actually sold. Reissue of a cassette from 1978, a collection of sound poems and concrete poetry by G.J. de Rook, Michael
Gibbs, Greta Monach and Ulises Carrión himself. The initiative for the release at the time originated from
Ulises Carrión, who wanted sound poetry to be better known in The
Netherlands. His plan was to release a series of sound poetry cassettes
through his bookstore Other Books & So in Amsterdam and to
distribute them among Dutch conservatories and libraries. The plan was
to publish sound poets from all over the world. The series, called
‘Sound-Proof’, was introduced with a zero issue dedicated to sound poets
living in The Netherlands. The recordings for Sound-Proof no. 0 were
done by Greta Monach (assisted by technician Herman Kooy) at the
Institute of Sonology of Utrecht University in 1978. With Sound-Proof
no. 0 as an example Ulises Carrión and Greta Monach applied for a grant
from the Dutch Ministry of Culture to realise the series they had in
mind, but their request was denied and consequently no other cassettes
appeared in the series. To make matters worse, only a handful of copies
of Sound-Proof no. 0 were sold and the rest of the edition was destroyed
by mistake. All that makes Sound-Proof no. 0 a rare set of recordings,
which Slowscan released on vinyl in 2014 after they had been digitised
by Greta Monach. The LP comes with English and Dutch inserts that
contain background information on the recordings and biographical
information on the artists.