Baudouin Oosterlynck

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (minimal ring wear). 

Baudouin Oosterlynck is a Belgian artist who has spent his life on the act of listening: drawings of sounds, sculptural "listening prostheses", walks in which the ear leads the body. This self-released LP from 1978 is one of the earliest documents of that practice, with bilingual French and Dutch titles that read like a private diary (Musique pour initiés, Le monde et moi, Refuge, Hier soir).

The longest piece, Musique pour initiés, runs over thirteen minutes, and the record closes with In memoriam collegii. Expect small sounds, close attention and an artist's freedom from musical convention. Housed in a sleeve with photographs by Leopold Oosterlynck, this is an obscure item from the Belgian margins of sound art.