Aleksei Kruchenykh, ‘Vselenskaia voina (Universal war)’ (1916)
Audio recording. Poems read by Masha Chlenova, 2012. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tag Archives: sound
Louise Lawler
‘Birdcalls’ (1972) by Louise Lawler.
Louise Lawler transformed each name of a male contemporary artist into a specific birdcall and recorded the sound. Listen to them here.
Bas Schevers
Bas Schevers, ‘Impulse’ (2012)
During this one minute performance, eleven people (attendees of the opening) suddenly interrupted the existing situation with brief actions that were exaggerations of normal gallery behavior. Some examples of these simultaneously performed actions are: someone closely examining an empty corner of the space, a man was thinking of something really sad until it made him cry, two people talking to eachother while rythmically clacking their heels, someone singing in the toilet, a photographer taking pictures of the photographer and eventually two wine glasses falling on the floor in two different corners of the space at the exact same time.
Commissioned by pietmondriaan.com for our exhibition I Want to Believe. Photos by Jan Adriaans.
Ice Records – Katie Paterson
Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely melt.
William Basinski
William Basinski, ‘The Disintegration Loops’, performed live by The Wordless Music Orchestra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2011)
Meriç Algün Ringborg
Meriç Algün Ringborg, ‘Ö (The Mutual Letter)’ (2011)
Since she moved to Stockholm in 2007, Algün Ringborg wanted to collect all the words that are exactly the same in Swedish and Turkish. The printed pieces take the form of a quite peculiar dictionary, consisting of the 1,270 identical words. Like Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Passport), viewers will have the chance to take copies of this dictionary. The other part of the work consists of a two-hour audio recording of all of these words read by Algün Ringborg’s partner and herself.
Click here to listen to an excerpt from ‘Ö (The Mutual Letter)’
Kenneth Goldsmith
‘Kenneth Goldsmith sings Jean Baudrillard’, from the ‘Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Theory’ series by Kenneth Goldsmith
