tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post3350356363996250299..comments2023-06-24T04:40:18.869-07:00Comments on CHAUDRON: Piano destructionJanashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-53304486082040234782011-01-26T05:00:42.692-08:002011-01-26T05:00:42.692-08:00About Dror Feiler, I have only heard "Celesti...About Dror Feiler, I have only heard "Celestial Fire" released by the swedish label Anckarström, really an interesting album.<br /><br />I do not know well the swedish experimental scene, but I like this group called "The Sons of God" (Leif Elggren & Kent Tankred)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDy0MRU2WAI" rel="nofollow">Guds söner - Sons of God @ Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NYC) November 7 2009</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFyi05NJV8g" rel="nofollow">The Sons of God live at LUFF 2010</a><br /><br />Greetings<br />JanasJanashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-44923677022581308232011-01-26T03:07:27.472-08:002011-01-26T03:07:27.472-08:00Now that is the point and I have a very good frien...Now that is the point and I have a very good friend, , musician and composer, Dror Feiler, who has used chainsaws, electric cutters and grinders and various other tools in concerts and compositions. And that is fine because then you are using the tool as an instrument what I have problem with is for instance rock musicians using their guitar as an ax or a sledgehammer. I could very well enjoy a piece of percussion with sledgehammer but not if it is used to demolishing instruments or life. I think it is good that something is kept sacred! More details on these pieces of music if there is any interest...bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-11607317839366414992011-01-26T02:57:07.536-08:002011-01-26T02:57:07.536-08:00Nice photo, thank you for this valuable addition. ...Nice photo, thank you for this valuable addition. This swedish performer must have produced a delicious noises using a chainsaw.Janashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-32663558295545155422011-01-26T01:58:15.962-08:002011-01-26T01:58:15.962-08:00There is little time at the moment to be of any ex...There is little time at the moment to be of any explicatory or translatory help but 1964 there was a concert in The Modern Art museum in Stockholm in a performance "The Last Piano Evening" by the swedish composer Karl Erik Welin. I was not there myself but I remember the scandal and all the mentions in TV and Radio. You can follow this link and google translate...<br />There is also a blurred photo from the evening performance where Karl Erik Welin also managed to saw himself in the leg... How is that for instant Karma ;-)<br /><br />http://www.bergmark.org/THEODORE.E.LIBER.html<br /><br />There was also a reconstruction of that concert in Fylkingen Stockholm, by Johannes Bergmark who gave his "Sista pianoafton" (Last Piano Evening) on the 14th of december 2001.bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-88585529019432040242011-01-25T23:11:39.061-08:002011-01-25T23:11:39.061-08:00Bolingo, your annotations, as always are interesti...Bolingo, your annotations, as always are interesting. Thanks.<br /><br />I too, hate to see a musical instrument that is destroyed, especially if it is destroyed with another musical instrument.<br /><br />Piano destructions, chronologically:<br /><br />- Wiener Gruppe (Friedrich Achleitner, Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, Oswald Wiener), in zwei welten, „2. Literarischen Cabaret“ by Porrhaus, Wien, 15.4.1959<br /><br />- Nam June Paik, fourth and last movement of Hommâge à John Cage, Galerie 22, Kaiserstr. 22, Düsseldorf,13.11.1959 / Atelier Mary Bauermeister, Lintgasse 28, Köln, 16. o 18.6.1960 / LouisianaMuseum, Humblebæk, 30.9.1961<br /><br />- Jeam Tinguely / Billy Klüver, Hommage to New York: A selfconstructing and self-destructing work of Art, Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 17.3.1960<br /><br />- La Monte Young, Piano Piece for Terry Riley #1, Notation from - November 1960<br /><br />- Poul Gernes, DUT (Die jungen Tonkünstler), Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, 1961 (destroys a piano prepared by Nam June Paik with a sledge hammer.)<br /><br />- Arman, Musical Rage / Chopins Waterloo, public piano destruction in Galerie Saqqârah in Gstaad, 2.8.1962<br /><br />- Fluxus-members (George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Emmett Williams, among others), performance of Philip Corner’s Piano Activity, at „Fluxus Internationale Festspiele für Neueste Musik,“ Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden, 23.9.1962<br /><br />- Joseph Beuys, destruction of a piano prepared by Nam June Paik during a solo exhibition by Nam June Paik, Exposition of Music Electronic Television, Galerie Parnass, Moltkestr. 61, Wuppertal, 11.3.1963<br /><br />- Raphael Montañaz Ortiz, Destruction in Art Symposium in London, 1966 (Film, b/w, 4,5 Min.)<br /><br />- Nam June Paik, A Tribute to John Cage, Video, 60 Min., colour, 1973 (Scene from Stan Vanderbeek, Violence Sonata, 1969 (Abb.: Decker: Paik, p. 156ff., Abb. 101/102 Film)<br /><br />- Sonic Youth performing Maciunas, Piano Piece # 13 (for Nam June Paik) (1999)<br /><br />(List by Andrea Buettner)Janashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-40275595649526139722011-01-25T11:19:08.528-08:002011-01-25T11:19:08.528-08:00I sympathize very much with "a penniless mus...I sympathize very much with "a penniless music student in the audience burst into a fit of crying, as so far she had been unable to afford such a piano" and this statement; "we liked this very much"; makes me feel as offended as I ever was each time a stupid pop-group (whose name I refuse to use) smashed their guitars on their loudspeakers. I was even saddened by the ritual murder of Hendrix guitar and I remember Ravi Shankar being appalled at musicians that harmed and mutilated their instruments, something unheard of where music was sacred including the instruments one used to make the music with! I had no problems with the second vienna school who expanded the borders for music. But this... nothing but heinous crimes...bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4257293442588100996.post-8718973940137449772011-01-23T02:43:02.048-08:002011-01-23T02:43:02.048-08:00Scans source: Peter Weibel (ed.): die wiener grupp...Scans source: Peter Weibel (ed.): die wiener gruppe. a moment of modernity 1954-1960 / the visual works and actions. (Springer, Wien & New York 1997) - Exhib. cat. Biennale di Venezia.Janashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.com