Broken music : artists' recordworks / editors, Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Block, Ursula, editor.

Glasmeier, Michael, 1951- editor.

Primary Information (Organization), publisher.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Sound recordings and the arts--Exhibitions.

Sound recordings and the arts.

Sound recordings in art--Exhibitions.

Sound recordings in art.

Arts, Modern--Exhibitions.

Arts, Modern.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 audio disc (analog : 33 1/3 rpm ; 7 in.)

plastic

Edition:

Facsimile edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, [2018]

Language Note:

English, French, and German.

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

Summary:

Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989. It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak's "Broken Music." The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists' records. Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Contents:

[V. 1] Text. Hermine performs the washing-up / René Block

Broken music or his master's noise / Ursula Block

Music of the angels / Michael Glasmeier

The form of the record / Theodor W. Adorno

New plasticism in music : possibilities of the gramophone / László Moholy-Nagy

Experiénces musicales / Jean Dubuffet

Media composition according to Cage / Hans Rudolf Zeller

Broken music / Milan Knížák

Artists' recordworks

a compendium

Chronology

How does wood make music / Christiane Seiffert

[v. 2] Sound disc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-277).

Local Notes:

Fine Arts Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Primary Information.

ISBN:

0991558596

9780991558599

OCLC:

1031154011