- Jim O’Rourke, Steamroom 47
- Flowertops, Mimosa
- Harry Bertoia, Space Voyage / Echoes of Other Times
- Harry Bertoia, Clear Sounds / Perfetta
- Jim Shaw, Solo Works for Electric Guitar, Electronics, and Audiotape 1975–1979 (disc 2)
- Mammal, Double Nature
- To Live and Shave in L.A., The Wigmaker in 18th Century Williamsburg (disc 2) (feat. Tom Smith)
- Ohne, 1 (feat. Tom Smith)
- MX-80 Sound, Crowd Control
- The Verlaines, Some Disenchanted Evening
- Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records (disc 1)
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has a Harry Bertoia exhibit up right now. I hope to see it in person before it closes on April 24. February 22–27 there’s a concert series with many excellent musicians performing on and with Bertoia’s “sounding sculptures”, though I can’t make it in time for any of that.
Check out this podcast interview with composer and sound artist Olivia Block, centered on her work with Bertoia’s sculptures. Her Bertoia-based installation, “The Speed of Sound in Infinite Copper”, is part of the exhibit.
In 2016, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York had a Bertoia exhibit where you could play the sculptures yourselves. Or rather, replicas made by one of Bertoia’s children, if I recall correctly. Here’s a short video (with sound, naturally) that I made there.
It was a huge thrill to have as much time with the sculptures as I wanted, without being chased off by security guards. There’s a real Bertoia outside the AON Center (formerly the Standard Oil Building) in downtown Chicago. I often bring visitors to the city there so we can climb out into the fountain and have at it, but it doesn’t usually take very long for the guards to arrive and make us stop.
The photo above is from when I took Josh Ronsen there in 2003. I see it’s still the banner photo on his website.
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