Takis - Pendules Magnétiques / Le Siècle De Kafka - Experimental

Description: New, comes unsealed. Limited edition of 380 copies. Includes printed inner-sleeve testimonies by Marcel Duchamp and William Burroughs. Sleeve has a fair amount of shelf wear, even though the record's brand new. Good shape overall. Photos available upon request, so please feel free to ask. "2009 release. Alga Marghen proudly presents one of the highlights of Takis' catalog, an exclusive LP edition with the recordings of Takis' electro-magnetic sculptures. Takis is the originator of this new approach to the musicality of sound, which consists in laying bare the repetitious structure of musical form and its functional derivation, thus rejecting the symbolism of representation. Takis was born in 1925 in Athens. Preferring, as a matter of principle, to teach himself rather than study in an institution, he left Greece in 1954 and lived as a citizen of the world, traveling through Europe and the USA. Some of his earliest manifestations in the 1940s consisted of explosions carried out in open places. His first "Signals" date from 1954: they were rods consisting of piano wires which created musical vibrations as they stuck against each other in the wind. In fact, they constituted the first appearance in his work and in contemporary art history of a form of musical expression in which sounds are called forth in an un-programmed way, owing to the action of natural forces. In 1961 Takis met Marcel Duchamp in New York. Duchamp's perpetual moving bicycle wheels inspired Takis' hydromagnetic sculptures. In the period between 1964 and 1965, Takis conceived his Pendules magnètiques and constructs his first Sound Sculptures. After the exhibition of Takis titled Electro-musical relief at Indica Gallery in London in 1966, the New Scientist magazine in an article entitled "The Sounds of Tomorrow" commented that Takis, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage were the most promising musicians of the century. Takis' Pendules magnétiques are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. The sounds reproduced in this edition were recorded in 1993 by Samon Takahashi at Takis' retrospective at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Takis participates in 1984 at the exhibition titled The Century of Kafka at Centre Pompidou in Paris and sound work with the same title is also reproduced on this LP edition. As an artist he seeks a natural origin for the construction of sound, and in particular that origin which is furthest removed from the artist's arbitrary decision. For about 40 years now, it has been Takis' purpose to investigate language as a natural function, conceiving function as a form of work. Furthermore, he has broken down the frontiers between sculpture and music in a number of pieces which can only be read by identifying their functionalism as structured units, with their morphological, visual and acoustic aspects. Edition limited to 380 copies with full-color sleeve, printed inner-sleeve reproducing a testimony by Marcel Duchamp and an insert with photos of the Pendules magnètiques and a testimony by William Burroughs." FREE SHIPPING ON PURCHASES OF THREE OR MORE ITEMS! The only exception being if the shipping classes for the desired items are different. For example, books, records, and tapes are all media mail, but clothing is not, so if you buy two records and one shirt, I won't be able to package the items together. 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