Jean Tinguely
Sound Sculptures - Tate Gallery 1982
Lovely second release by Austrian Edition Bierammer (after the Joseph Beuys / Nam June Paik 'Coyote III' LP). This time a long-overdue reissue of Jean Tinguely's 'Sound Sculptures' cassette from 1983. Presenting recordings of 13 of Tinguely's kinetic sculptures at the Tate Gallery exhibition in 1982 including a 18 minute piece performed by 'Meta-Harmonie'. Essential document of one of the important artists in this field. Edition of 150 copies with gold on white silkscreen cover.
Jean Tinguely
Awesome and obscure release, the music on this disc is a collection of awesome noisy sound works establishing Tinguely in the tradition of Luigi Russolo’s noise machines or John Cage’s Imaginary Landscapes. Tinguely’s sculptures rotating parts create awkward rhythm patterns, metallic rattlings and loud percussion sounds, more often than not on the verge of falling apart. Similar sounds can be heard in Jean-Marc Vivenza’s robust take on ‘bruitisme’ or Pierre Bastien’s self-build mecano instrument…
Music for Tinguely
This is volume 5 of Omega Point's newly-reissued Obscure Tape Music of Japan series, available in a limited edition of 1000 copies, also with an LP version in a limited edition of 300 copies. Toshi Ichiyanagi is a well-renowned Japanese avant-garde composer who made brilliant pieces of tape music. Most of his works have not been issued on CD, or have only been issued in very small editions. This CD consists of three of his obscure tape works. "Music for Tinguely" (1963) was made from the jun…