Not a record! But a book, although considered more a bible or vital companion for anyone looking to wade through the unforgiving backwaters of the Sound Art world. Broken Music is a vital and meticulously curated guide and discography for recordings and audio works by visual artists of the 20th century, documenting through photographs, texts and essays where the worlds of visual art and recorded sound intercept. Records by artists, sound sculpture, record covers as artwork from names held high on the alter here – Henning Christiansen, Harry Bertoia, Yoshi Wada, Laurie Anderson, Alma Art +++, this hefty publication brings this fractured, fascinating yet seemingly impenetrable world under one roof. Looonnggg out of print and financially out of reach since it’s original 1989 but back now for us all to enjoy. W/ Flexi disc! (Mint / New)
Facsimile edition of the definitive guide to records by artists
Broken Music is an essential guide and discography for recordings and audio works by visual artists, originally published in 1989 and edited by Ursula Block (founder of Gelbe Musik in Berlin) and Michael Glasmeier. Records chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: record covers created as original work by visual artists; record or sound producing objects (sculptures); books and publications that contain a record or recorded media object; and records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists. Hundreds of works are documented by artists such as Vito Acconci, albrecht d., Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Harry Bertoia, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli/Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Milan Knížák, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Tom Philips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, selten gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Jean Tinguely, Yoshi Wada, William Wegman and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
Edited by Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier. Preface by René Block, Ursula Block. Text by Michael Glasmeier, Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knížák, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hans Rudolf Zeller. Afterword by Christiane Seiffert.
Published by Primary Information, 280 pgs, 21 × 26.5 cm, Softcover, 2018, 9780991558599
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