VA sep+tic K7 1980 avant fluxus mail art experimental diy MB rod summers baroni

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VVAA "SEP+TIC" K7 privately issued by Rod Summers for his VAC Audio Exchange (VEC 7) in Holland, 1980. Edition of 150 numbered copies. This copy No. 9/150. ****** Tape:m- / Cov:m- ****** The intention of the VEC Audio Exchange was to inform artists working with the medium audio about the contemporary situation. A mastertape program was compiled by copying extracts from audio works received onto open reel tape which is then edited to fulfill form and time requirements. Realtime cassette copies of the mastertapes are made one at a time to order up to a total edition of 150. Four different programs are published annually, each one featuring the works of approximately twenty artists. VEC 7 "Sep+Tic" track listing includes batspace, nic thompson, giovanni fontana, marek krolczuk, audio players, ron crowcroft, maurizio bianchi, michael gibbs, leonhard f. duch, johan cornelissen, vittore baroni, lon spiegelman, klaus grog, the krauts, john m. bennett, magnus v. gudlaugsson, daniele ciullini, jürgen olbrich, paulo bruscky, bria burgess and janet oye, the statics (from audio arts). Summers began to experiment with recorded sound as early as 1961. The results of Summers' multiple, art-related activities have often appeared as part of his concept of VEC (Visual, Experimental, Concrete), which he originated in 1973. By 1973, he became an active participant in the Mail Art Network, and among the items of exchange were audio cassettes. In 1978 Summers decided, as he says to Ruud Janssen in TAM Mail-Interview #11 (see reference 2, below) "to inform myself [of]...who else was involved in the Audio Arts movement....In 1978 I travelled over to Warsaw to perform audio works. I performed two live works there and the performances were recorded. On my return to Maastricht I assembled the first VEC AUDIO EXCHANGE cassette from works [previously] received and my own works including the two made in Poland." A post card explaining the rules of the exchange was sent out on the Mail Art Network, and as Summers says, "...reaction was rapid and enthusiastic. A total of 16 exchange cassettes were made [from] October, 1978 to the (final exchange) in 1983, and over 2000 copies were sent out in exchange for audio works." The complete AUDIO EXCHANGE is important because it documents international trends in Audio Art (and, almost as an after-thought, the beginnings of contemporary Noise Music) in a transitional period, before the widespread adoption of digital technology and the rise of the World Wide Net. Lander and Lexier's Sound by Artists (Art Metropole, 1996) gives full details of the project. The AUDIO EXCHANGE is also referenced by Peter R. Meyer (in Swedish) in his study of Audio Art Ljodkunst (Stockholm, 1997). In addition to the Audio Exchange, Summers began VEC Audio Editions, which he continues to produce in CD format. VEC Audio Editions includes an anthology of Polish Futurist Sound poetry, performed by Piotr Rypson, as well as other sound works by noted practitioners of Audio Art. The VEC agenda also includes publishing Fluxus-like "multiples": limited edition magazines, artist books, artist stamps, broadsides, computer discs of art or text, stamp art, post cards, poem-objects, scores, and other ephemera. Many of these items have found their way into public and private collections. ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare LP and K7 editions in the coming weeks. Next auction: Tape culture… Power Electronics and Mail Art cassettes by M.B., Die Form, Broken Flag, The Pump, Neo Zelanda… ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.