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- untitled - (1982)

Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

Ti­tle of the com­pi­la­ti­on/album: Sculpture at the Tate
Ti­tle: - untitled -  (Recordings of thirteen of Tinguely's
sculptures made during his retrospective
at the Tate Gallery, 1982, Track 02)
Publisher: Audio Arts, London
Da­te: 1982
Me­di­um: audio-cassette

 

Untitled is the second of 14 sound pieces on the audio cassette Jean Tinguely Sculpture at the Tate, published in 1983 by William Furlong as part of his audio cassette magazine Audio Arts in London. All the pieces have no title and are thus labelled Untitled.

The sounds or noises of a moving and machine-like sculpture by the artist Jean Tinguely can be heard. The machine, assembled from found materials, or rather its individual parts, move through a randomly interlocking set of wheels. In this way, objects connected to the wheelwork are set in motion. This produces a wide variety of sounds, which not only vary in length depending on how long a sculpture moves but also sound different according to the diversity of the individual parts of a sculpture. Tinguely's preoccupation with sound as an artistic medium is thus based on his sculptures.

The cassette contains a total of 13 recordings of sounds or noises of sculptures that were shown in 1982 in the retrospective on the artistic work of Jean Tinguely at the Tate Gallery in London. In addition, an 18-minute sound recording of the Méta-Harmonie II can be heard. Tinguely equipped this machine-sculpture with various musical and especially percussion instruments. In this respect, Tinguely used his machine to create 'music'.

Under the title, Jean Tinguely - Sound Sculptures (Tate Gallery 1982), the audio cassette was released again in 2012 as an LP.

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