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Joe JONES
“Solar Music Tent”
LP reissue of the cassette edition ”Solar Music Tent” documenting an installation and performance in Hagen, Germany, originally released by Joe Jones in 1982 in an edition of 10 copies.
From the early 1980s onwards, Joe Jones released a handful of self-recorded music machine performances on tape under his own record label “Tone-Deaf Music”. Most tapes came in a standard xeroxed sleeve with a handwritten title and instrument listing. A few, including “Solar Music Tent”, were released in combination with a book: The cassette was included in a red ring binder that held a handwritten photo documentation of the performance of the same name at Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum in Hagen on April 1, 1982, a handwritten music notebook, and an invitation card. The recording itself was titled “Solar Music
5” and was made on March 16, 1982, with the instrument ensemble of the Solar Music Tent at Jones’ apartment in Düsseldorf.
Like the previous Jones releases on Edition Telemark, this reissue is limited to 200 copies and comes in a gatefold PVC sleeve: The right-hand side holds the LP, the left-hand side holds A4-sized facsimiles of all artwork that was included in the original edition.
34,00€
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Joe JONES
“In Performance”
Very last copies on clear vinyl.
After studying with composers John Cage and Earle Brown, Joe Jones became a prominent figure in Fluxus, contributing to the movement's first “yearbox” alongside La Monte Young, György Ligeti and Nam June Paik. Beginning in late 1961, Jones began constructing his own music machines – drawing inspiration from the calliopes, automata and orchestrions of the 19th and early 20th century to create self-playing ensembles of stringed instruments, percussion and woodwinds – “played” through an elaborate (yet decidedly lo-tech) system of rubber bands, balls and tin foil.
Christened the Tone Deaf Music Company, this battery of automated musical instruments generates the sounds on In Performance (originally released in 1977 on the Harlequin Art imprint). With exacting conceptual precision and varied subtleties of natural motion – not unlike Harry Bertoia’s sounding sculptures – Jones' machines produce richly-textured strata of sound and serve as engines of paradox. While bringing the figure of the artist-composer to the foreground, the machines ultimately dispense with the need for the performer entirely – a cunning subversion of the fetish for virtuosity and individual genius.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.
25,00€