In Performance, 1978

Tone Deaf Music Co.
Tonmaschinen
Aufgenommen im Dezember 1977

"Issued in 1977 on the Harlekin Art Records imprint (Wiesbaden, Germany) in an edition of 500. Essentially, this is a recording of several instances of a massive orchestra of instrumental automatons set in motion. The instrumentations runs the gamut: piano with developed keyboard and mechanics, shop-window puppets manipulated by hand, two small guitars, one shadow-object, three xylophones, four lyricas, two tambourines, four normal guitars, one large zither, two balalaikas, one sonia, and three children's guitars. Motors and gravity are involved. There's a bit of the liners (in German) on the back that goes off about the connection between this record and Yoko Ono's classic Fly, maybe actual, maybe theoretical. Extended flights revealing layer after layer of glossed sound-murk, presented in perfect art-damage fidelity (microphones set up in the warehouse NEXT DOOR to the one where the aktion took place). Extremely pleasing. - Forced Exposure" (zit. nach http://www.ubu.com/sound/jones.html).

Details about this work

• Edition / Condition

  Edition 113/500

• Bibliography

  Joe Jones. Musikmaschinen, Herausgeber: René Block; Museum Fridericianum Kassel, 1999, Abb.-Nr.