PETER VAN RIPER LP LA MONTE YOUNG-FLUXUS-Z'EV-MACIUNAS
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PETER VAN RIPER
Sound to Movement LP
- Original Edition
- Label :Private / Usa
- Condition :ex/vg++(cover/record)
SCARCE original pressing vinyl released privately back in the late 70's. A masterpiece of "Continuous sound pieces", close to the aesthetics of La Monte Young, using exotic instruments like the shanai, an indian reed instrument. Improvisational and abstract, this one is of the most interesting records i've ever heard using mainly sounds of the saxophone.
Van Riper was born in Detroit's Inner City, Michigan, the son of a concert pianist and an avid record collector. During the 1960s he graduated in Art History at Tokyo University and later took part to Fluxus performances and exhibitions in Japan. He later appeared on Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine #24 FluxTellus, Harvestworks, 1990, as part of an ensemble performing George Maciunas's Solo For Lips And Tongue. Even if he was sometimes associated with Fluxus members during exhibitions or performances, Van Riper can not be considered a proper Fluxus artist, his influences being much wider. He is a true sound artist whose music is often inspired by Far Eastern traditions from Japan or Indonesia.
From 1967 to 1970, van Riper was a member of Editions Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan gallery of holography, animated along laser physicist Lloyd Cross and artist Jerry Pethick (1935-2003). In 1970 they organized an exhibition at the Cranbrook Academy, and at the Finch College Museum in New York. Both Cross and Pethick co-founded the School of Holography, San Francisco, California. Van Riper exhibited holograms during The Nature Of Light: Exploring Unconventional Photographic Techniques exhibition, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, 1996, and also created a sound performance during show opening.
Since the late 1970s, Van Riper has worked with dancer Simone Forti, providing lightning design and live sound accompaniement to her dance performances. An avantgarde dancer and choreographer, Forti took part to some of Allan Kaprow's 1960s happenings and specialized in improvised dancing. While working with her, Van Piper mostly used soprano and sopranino saxophones but also various devices and objects or even tape music. Like the works of Ravi Shankar, Toru Takemitsu, Max Neuhaus and Harry Partch, Donald Knaack and Harry Bertoia, Alvin Lucier, Paul Panhuysen and Jacques Lasry, Akio Suzuki, Rolf Julius, Takis. He also moved freely around the stage and dancer. Van Riper provided what he calls Acoustic Metal Music and small percussion works to Barcelona video and installation artist Eugènia Balcells (born 1943), who settled in New York from 1979 to 1988. For TV Weave, an installation with TV screens first showed at Metrònom gallery, Barcelona, 1985, Peter van Riper played chiming music from suspended aluminium baseball bats.
In 1982, he performed together with Jackson Mac Low and percussionist Z'ev, during a show called Language/Theater: Language/Noise, December 6, 1982, New York. That same year he took part to a collective exhibition called Young Fluxux, Artists Space gallery, New York, 1982. He composed music for Seven Days in Space, a 90' video of NASA space exploration. Van Riper was a contemporary with composers John Cage, Charles Amirkhanian, Larry Austin, Jerry Hunt, Glenn Branca and Phil Niblock, Joseph Celli and Charlemagne Palestine. Very rare, get this now!!
Cover lies in excellent condition, nearly impossible to find a better copy today because of the white colour and the nature of the sleeve, only some small corner wear, while vinyl lies in vg++ condition, looks to be near mint(ex), but plays with some crackle that is quite disturbing, so vg++ overall!! ...impossible to find in any condition!!
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