sound & performance
The postwar avant-garde was as much heard as seen. This theme collects its sound: Fluxus actions pressed to vinyl, painters picking up instruments, concerts where the score was an instruction and the instrument was anything.
Abschiedssymphonie, Op. 177
is a recording by Henning Christiansen released by Edition Block in 1988, constructed from material recorded at the opening concert of the Biennale des Friedens in Hamburg on November 29, 1985, with Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys.
1988
Schottische Symphonie / Requiem of Art
a double LP released in 1973 by Edition Schellmann, Munich, documenting two works by Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen drawn from their 1970 collaboration Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony at the Edinburgh College of Art.
1973
3a Bienal Americana de Arte
is a two-disc LP set documenting the experimental music concerts held during the Tercera Bienal Americana de Arte in Córdoba, Argentina in October 1966.
1966
Reunion
is an artist's book by Shigeko Kubota, published by Takeyoshi Miyazawa in 1970.
1970
Cybernetic Serendipity - The Computer and the Arts
is a special issue of the British magazine *Studio International*, first published in July 1968 to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
1968
Duett Paik/Takis
is a double-sided vinyl LP documenting two live performances staged at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne in June 1979, featuring Nam June Paik performing on harpsichord, piano, and voice alongside the electromagnetic sculptures of Takis.
1979
Il giardino delle delizie
(The Garden of Delights) is a recording released by Multhipla Records featuring a musical Fluxus performance by Wolf Vostell.
1984
Musique Phénoménale
is a collaborative recording of experimental music by Asger Jorn and Jean Dubuffet, recorded between December 1960 and March 1961 in Paris and originally published in an extremely limited edition of fifty numbered box sets by Galleria del Cavallino in Venice.
1961
Klankteksten - Konkrete Poëzie - Visuele Teksten
(Sound Texts - Concrete Poetry - Visual Texts) is the catalogue of a touring exhibition organised by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in November 1970.
1970
Symphonie 'Monoton-Silence'
a conceptual musical work by French artist Yves Klein, conceived between 1947 and 1949 and first performed publicly in Paris in 1960.
2024
Prince of Space, Musik der Leere
a vinyl LP conceived by Yves Klein and produced by Charles Wilp, released by Sight & Sound Productions in Germany.
1965
Music Before Revolution
is a 1972 quadruple-LP box set released on the Odeon label documenting radical American experimental music from 1939 to 1970, performed by the Ensemble Musica Negativa under conductor Rainer Riehn, with liner notes by critic Heinz-Klaus Metzger and recorded conversations between the composers themselves.
1972
Originale
is a recording of the 1964 New York premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music theatre work of the same name, released on vinyl by Cyalume & Argonzer in 2018.
2018