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Bernard Heidsieck was a French sound poet and performance artist who pioneered concrete poetry and phonetic experimentation in the postwar avant-garde. Working primarily with recorded voice, tape manipulation, and live vocal performance, he developed a practice that treated language as material rather than meaning, dismantling syntax into pure sound and rhythm. His work anticipated conceptual art and performance-based poetry by several decades, establishing him as a foundational figure in the European sound art lineage.