Volume 6 Numbers 2 & 3

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1983

Label: Audio Arts

Comes with 16 page A4 sized booklet.

The actual order of the tracks differs slightly from what is given in the booklet. The track listing here reflects the order of tracks on the cassettes.

A1 "An adaption of the poem 'Don Giovanni' from the D M Thomas novel 'The White Hotel."
A2 "Rose Garrard's exhibition, 'Frameworks', contained performance-related objects and their works. Walking around the show with William Furlong, she uses the work as a starting point for discussion."
B1 "Vision is Song 15 from 'Crossing Map', 15 songs and a postlude published by Thames and Hudson by arrangement with Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stutthart." ZBS Studios.
B3 "This is a section from Penck's 90 minute piano work which will be published in full by Audio Arts in the near future."
B5 "Another item in the series of contributions from Art School bands and performance groups, this time from Wimbledon School of Art."
B6 to B12 "The following short extracts are from tapes and records received."
B6 from Voooxing Poooêtre, "international record of sound poetry compiled by Enzo Minarelli."
B7 from "the first of a series of polipoetry issues, edited by Enzo Minarelli."
B8 from "the latest cassette issue from Media-Space in Perth, Australia."
B9 from Paris Tokyo "a two cassette issue from Tago Mago in Paris."
B10 from "a cassette from Toronto."
B11 from "a cassette by Leif Brush. 'Teleconstructs' is a soundwork done in collaboration with Minnesota and New York audio artists and musicians, linking two sites, via satellite, in sound."
B12 from Mail Music Project
B14 "Sounds used: voice, triangle, sound of honey bee, cicada, termite, social wasp. This is the full version of Walking Glass, an edited version of which appeared on the previous issue of Audio Arts."
Sides C and D: "Wendy Chambers opens side one of this cassette with the 'Star Spangled Banner', performed on the Car Horn Organ. Then, aboard Air India flight A1 107 bound for New York, Steve Rogers discusses the difficulties of establishing a contemporary arts programme within the 'Britain Salutes New York' art festival which took place earlier this year in New York. On the ground again, and to the Green Street Cafe where Mary Tierney from the Mayor's office, and the Mayor himself comment on the 'Britain Salutes' festival. Kazoophony provide a musical link to Christopher Price, journalist and former MP, who also talks about the festival as well as ideas and plans for re-structuring the arts in Britain. 'Poul's Song by Charlie Morrow completes side one.
Side two starts with another piece by Charlie Morrow, this time an ad for a benefit concert for Ear Magazine, which included Robert Ashely [sic], Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik and John Cage. John Cage talks about his work, 'An Ear for an Ear', composed especially for the occasion, discusses his various collaborations with dancers and artists, and goes on to express strong feelings about the work of Julian Schnabel. Then follow soundworks by Joan La Barbara and Annea Lockwood.
From a small bar off West Broadway in Soho, RoseLee Goldberg analyses the various tendencies with art in New York, expressed on the one hand by Schnabel and Clemente, and on the other by Goldstein, Sherman and Salle. Then to another commentary, but this time by Bob George on a baseball game at Yankee Stadium between the N Y Yankees and Detroit. Take the train to the plane; another ad by Charlie Morrow and back on board Air India for the return flight to London."
C8 "This extract is a scan of the various parts of Englewood Brook Falls, where it enters the Hudson River, in Englewood, New Jersey, opposite the north tip of the Manhattan. The scan was done in one continuous take with a highly directional mic."
D3 "'Erin' was commissioned by VPRO radio and recorded in Hilversum, Holland in May 1980. It is an imaginary vision of Ireland, a fantasy blending playful and sombre reveries, Joycean characters, conversations and folklore, with the discovery of language, all ending in a rich multiphonic choir. All of the sounds on this tape are created by my natural voice, layered to create different textures. No electronic or tape manipulation was involved."
I uses ambient recordings made live at The Schlager and Model Dwellings.

Includes magazine with advertisements for Flash Art, Silva C Ziranek, Riverside Studios, National Sound Archive (British Library), Canada House Gallery, Art Ink 83, The Orchard Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Rough Trade Shop, Ikon Gallery, Ear Magazine, De Appel, Umbrella, John and Hansard Gallery.

Subsidised by the Arts Council of Great Britain

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