KEITH SONNIER limited.50 LP PRIVATE 1975 LEO CASTELLI-SOUND ART Installation-RAR
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KEITH SONNIER
AIR TO AIR 2-LP SET
Gemini G.E.L.
Special edition: 23/50 copies
w/insert, letter
Rare limited edition artist recording by visual and sound artist Keith Sonnier. Features the results of his amplified space installation from 1975. Field recordings, static and noises all over the place!!
Some info on the release: See Broken Music catalogue. Rare original issue, released in Usa back in 1975 by the Gemini G.E.L. gallery. This is the special edition of the release including 2 LPs (instead of 1 that came with the normal edition) plus an insert and a letter. Only 50 copies of the special edition in existence!! This one is #23/50. Impossible to find today!! Transcribed information from Air to Air by Keith Sonnier, produced in collaboration with Leo Castelli and Douglas Christmas, February 8 to 22, 1975. Amplified space installation with transmission systems for communication by long distance audio connection between Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York. Transmitting and receiving telecommunication locations: Ace Gallery 811 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles; Leo Castelli Gallery, 4 East 77th Street, New York City.
During the 1960s and 1970s, contemporary artists were supposed to free themselves from art spaces, white cubes and other commodified venues in favor of out-sized artworks, outdoor events and out-of-control live performances. Not so with US artist Keith Sonnier (b.1941), who always felt at home in the art gallery’s four walls, contrary to similar artists like Max Neuhaus or Bill Fontana. When this LP was released in 1975, Sonnier was a Leo Castelli protégé, with several solo shows in his New York gallery since 1972. At the time, Sonnier was creating multimedia installations using live video, sound transmission and light. The Air to Air LP, published by Los Angeles gallery Gemini G.E.L. in 1975, documents a twin sound installation based on long distance phone connection between art gallery staffs and attendees, from New York to Los Angeles on side 1, and from Los Angeles to New York on side 2. Ace Gallery in Los Angeles and Leo Castelli Gallery in NY presented the installation from February 8 to 22, 1975. I assume both exhibitions consisted of microphones and headphones hanging from the walls for volunteers to call the other Coast. The LP’s sound work is based on casual conversations, static and insistent high-pitched tonality. A disturbing disjunction arises from the fact we only hear one speaker at a time, though several unrelated conversations are randomly superposed. One participant calls the experience ‘super-telepathy’. The final mix of disembodied voices speaking in the vacant space carries a feeling of impossible communication. If long distance phone calls can reduce the distance between people, this mix actually, and somewhat ironically, increases the gap between Los Angeles and New York, as if resisting the globalization to come. The record is produced by Kurt Munkacsi, Philip Glass’s official NY producer, who also worked for Brian Eno, David Bowie and Diamanda Galás, a.o.
Condition: Vinyls lie in mint- condition, look super clean and play nicely, while cover lies in mint- shape, like new, the only defect of the set is that the paper print that comes inside the enveloppe is torn.
Tracklist
A Air To Air B Air To Air C Air To Air D Air To AirSHIPPING & PAYMENT
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