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Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks

Broken Music was an exhibition of artists' recordworks collected for the daadgalerie, Germany by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier. A 280 page book with a compendium of visual and textural data about the exhibited items was published in 1989, and reprinted in 2019 by Primary Information. The selection of titles is based on four criteria: 
C over - Record covers, which are original works by visual artist, or which have been made after the design of a visual artist 
O bject - Records with object-character, sculptures which utilize records artistically and sculptures in which records serve the function of a plastic material 
P ublication - Exhibition catalogues and books, which contain a record for additional information 
S ound - Records, which have sound produced by visual artists

Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
**Facsimile edition of the definitive (and legendary) guide to records by artists. Comes with flexi 7"** Broken Music’ is a holy grail avant-garde music publication, a compendium of recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations created by thousands of visual artists between WWII and 1989. Unavailable since the original, sought-after 1989 edition, it features essays by its compilers Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier, as well as Theodor W. Adorno, Milan Knížák and Lasz…
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