CHRISTIAN MARCLAY:FOOTSTEPS LP FLUXUS-BROKEN MUSIC-NWW

	£		25
	$		33

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

Footsteps LP

• Art object
• Label              :Recommended Records 26 / Switzerland 1989

From June 4th through July 16th 1989 the floor of one of the Shedhalle galleries, Zurich, was covered with 3500 copies of a record titled FOOTSTEPS. During the six weeks of the installation, people were invited to walk on the records-willingly or not, they had to step on them to reach the adjacent galleries where other sculptures were exhibited. The one-sided record, containing the sopunds of footsteps, was recorded in December 1988 in the deserted hallways of the Clocktower (N.Y.), and in the studios of Harmonic Ranch (N.Y.), where Keiko Uenishi's tap dancing was mixed in. During the gallery installation the work could be looked at, stepped on and walked through, but the recording was never heard, its content merely suggested by its title. Over the course of six weeks, more than 1500 visitors walked over the fragile floor, contributing to the through July 16th 1989 the floor of one of the Shedhalle galleries, Zurich, was covered with 3500 copies of a final composition by altering the records' surface with dirt and scratched. At the end of the exhibition, the records, which were attached to the floor with double-sided tape, were removed. The record sold here is one of them. When played, the footmark scratches and recorded footsteps blend in a final aleatory composition of rhythmic patterns, with as many variations as there are records. One thousand of these records have been made available, apart from a special edition of one hundred copies signed and numbered. Dedicated to the memory of Fred Astaire.
This copy does not come with the box, it's one of the 2500 copies sold without a box. See Broken Music book for other Christian Marclay records. Mainly can be seen as an art object and not as a vinyl that's aimed at your listening pleasure(keep in mind that, as people have stepped on it, with result lots of dirt and scratches, but all copies are like this).
California-born, Switzerland-bred and New York-based turntablist Christian Marclay (1955) "composes", performs and improvises using phonograph records. He has applied John Cage's indeterminism and, in general, Dadaism's provocative principles of aesthetic demystification, to the civilization of recorded music. His music can be just a mechanism for letting a record evolve a sound over time (typically, by having people somehow degrade its sound), or it can be a distorted collage of other people's music. Has worked with people like Guenther Mueller, Otomo Yoshihide, Alan Licht, Lee Renaldo, DJ Olive, William Hooker, Ulrich Krieger.
Might appeal to fans of John Cage, musique concrete, Broken Music, Pierre Schaeffer, Detoni, Ragnar Grippe, Arne Nordheim, Andre Almuro, Alvin Lucier, Alvin Curran, Eimert, Riedl, Parmegiani, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Richard Maxfield, Hermann Nitsch, Henri Chopin, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Yoshi Wada, Tod Dockstader, Luc Ferrari, Lejeune, Christian Clozier, Logothetis, Jani Christou,Toniutti, Nurse with wound, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, John Duncan, Leif Ellgrenn, Hausswolff, Merzbow, Organum, AMM, Harry Bertoia, Sound Sculpture, Z'ev, Lasry-Baschet, Paul Panhuysen, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Text sound compositions, harry Partch, John Cage, David Tudor and similar!

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