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Massimo Bartolini - Ur-Gerausch

Ur-Gerausch by Massimo Bartolini

GENRE: Concrete / Performative Spoken Words / Lower Case / Conceptual / Avantgarde

FORMAT: SHAPED BOX OF PAPER + AUDIO CD + PRINTED NUMBERED SHAPED INSERTS + HANDMADE TRANSPARENT SILK-PRINT ON BOTH THE SIDES OF THE DOUBLE JEWELCASE +
CD-OBJECT (COMPOSED BY A RECORDED CD-R PIERCED WITH A SMALL JEWEL) + XEROGRAPHIC INSERT.


Concept album based on "Ur-Geräusch" by Rainer M. Rilke.

La sutura coronale del cranio presenta ( cosa che sarebbe anzitutto da verificare, ma accettiamola pure) una stretta somiglianza con la linea fitta e sinuosa che la punta di un fonografo inscrive nel cilindro ruotante della apparecchiatura. Che cosa accadrebbe se ingannassimo quella punta e, invece di ricondurla lungo la propria traccia, la portassimo su una via che non è la traduzione grafica di un suono, ma di una cosa che esiste di per se, in maniera naturale, e – bene, diciamolo pure, che fosse (per esempio) proprio la sutura coronale? - : dovrebbe nascere un suono, una sequenza di suoni, una musica…

The coronal suture of the skull bears a close resemblance (this should
be verified but let's assume it's true) to the thick and sinuous line
inscribed by the stylus of a phonograph on the rotating cylinder. What
would happen if we were to cheat that stylus into moving along a
different and unusual path, one that is not the graphical translation of
a sound but rather something that exists in its own right, naturally,
and - well, let's go ahead and say it, something like the coronal suture
itself (for example)?-: The result should be a sound, a sequence of
sounds, a certain music...

Die Kronen-Naht des Schädels (was nun zunächst zu untersuchen wäre) hat – nehmen wirs an – eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit mit der dicht gewundenen Linie, die der Stift eines Phonographen in den empfangenden rotierenden Cylinder des Apparates eingrabt. Wie nun, wenn man diesen Stift täuschte und ihn, wo er zurückzuleiten hat, über eine Spur lenkte, die nicht aus der graphischen Übersetzung eines Tones stammte, sondern ein an sich und natürlich Bestehendes –, gut: sprechen wirs nur aus: eben (z.B.) die Kronen-Naht wäre –: Was würde geschehen? Ein Ton müßte entstehen, eine Ton-Folge, eine Musik...

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