Gone with the Wind
9 June to 17 July 2011
Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi, Walter Marchetti and Resonance104.4fm
This exhibition brings together three pioneers of sound art, Max Eastley (born 1944, UK), Takehisa Kosugi (born 1938, Japan) and Walter Marchetti (born 1931, Italy). Each artist has developed a distinct approach to the problem of representing immateriality, while sharing a lightness of touch, approaching sound with patience, restraint and fidelity. As well as presenting new and historic work, the exhibition will comprise of live performance and a selection of material from the artists' substantial archives.
Max Eastley is an artist and musician whose sound sculptures play on a balance between the natural environment and human intervention. His musical collaborations include the 1975 album New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments with David Toop, produced by Brian Eno. His response to the interior of Raven Row will be a meditation on the 18th century Picturesque, achieved with 21st century technology and a ‘Bergsonian’ approach to time.
Takehisa Kosugi is a major figure in modernist sound art. In the early 1960s his event pieces were realised by Fluxus in Europe and the USA. Kosugi pioneered the development of Japanese experimental music with Group ONGAKU and the Taj Mahal Travellers. Since 1977 he has been a composer/performer at Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and became its Music Director in 1995. As well as archival material, Kosugi will present a number of works including the sound installation Mano-Dharma, electronic, 1967/2011.
Walter Marchetti was a founder member of ZAJ, a recalcitrant Mediterranean parallel to Fluxus, which in the 1960s produced action-music-performances, anarchic gags, and elegant assaults on the music establishment. Marchetti befriended John Cage in 1958, and went on to collaborate with him on a number of projects. His work has often focused on the grand piano – for more than 50 years he has been preparing them like a chef intent on marinating sound. Two of Marchetti's pianos, alongside works from Emanuele Carcano's collection, will be exhibited.
Alongside these positions, Resonance104.4fm will be installed at Raven Row for the duration of the exhibition, broadcasting, and hosting workshops and live events, as well as presenting an ‘overhung’ sound installation – the ‘Resonance Open’ – with contributions solicited from local and international sound artists.
The exhibition is curated by Ed Baxter, director of Resonance104.4fm.
The exhibition is kindly supported by
Selected texts
Events
Resonance104.4fm broadcasting from Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Takehisa Kosugi, Ear Drum Event (1962/75)
Series of nine silkscreen prints
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Takehisa Kosugi, Interspersion, 1998
Oscillators, piezo speakers, battery & wood
Produced by Gallery 360°, Tokyo, and HEAR sound art library, Osaka
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Takehisa Kosugi
Mano-Dharma, electronic, 1967/2011
Radio receivers, radio frequency transmitters, strings, electric fans & DVD projectors
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Takehisa Kosugi
Mano-Dharma, electronic, 1967/2011
Radio receivers, radio frequency transmitters, strings, electric fans & DVD projectors
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Takehisa Kosugi
Pulses (detail), 2008
Acrylic boards with piezo transducers, cables, effects pedals & amplifiers
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Exhibition view
Max Eastley, Notebooks, 1968–81
Photograph by George Eksts
Max Eastley
The Lamp, 2011
Mixed media acoustic composition
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Max Eastley
The Mirror, 2011
Mixed media composition with live amplification of Aeolian devices on the roof
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Aeolian devices on the roof of Raven Row for Max Eastley's The Mirror, 2011
Photograph by George Eksts
A performance by Max Eastley at Raven Row, 14 June 2011
Photograph by Eva Herzog
exhibition view Gone with the Wind
Walter Marchetti, Cartones ZAJ [ZAJ Cards]
Cards from Festival ZAJ 1, Madrid, 1965, Festival ZAJ 2, Madrid, 1966 and facsimile reprints from the box edition ZAJ, 1987
Collection Emanuele Carcano
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Exhibition view
Walter Marchetti performance photographs and ZAJ Cards
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Walter Marchetti, Musica da camera n. 211, 1990/2011
Toilet rolls
First realised by Walter Marchetti at Spazio Ex Ansaldo, Milan, 1991 (on the occasion of Milanopoesia).
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Exhibition view, left to right:
Walter Marchetti, Musica da camera n. 211, 1990/2011
Toilet rolls
Walter Marchetti, Le secche del tempo, 1999
Ink on map
Collection Emanuele Carcano
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Walter Marchetti, Musica da camera n. 182, 1989/2011
Baby Grand piano, E10 light bulbs, E10 bulb holders, cable, transformers
First realised by Walter Marchetti at the Fondazione Mudima, Milan, 1990
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Walter Marchetti, Musica da camera n. 182, 1989/2011
Baby Grand piano, E10 light bulbs, E10 bulb holders, cable, transformers
First realised by Walter Marchetti at the Fondazione Mudima, Milan, 1990
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Walter Marchetti, De musicorum infelicitate (detail), 2001
Original score; 93 sheets
Ink on paper
Collection Emanuele Carcano
Photograph by George Eksts
Performance of Walter Marchetti's Music for too small a glass, 1967 by John White at Raven Row 8 June 2011.
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Performance of Walter Marchetti's Music for too small a glass, 1967 by John White at Raven Row 8 June 2011.
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Las Cosas [The Things]
A performance by Esther Ferrer at Raven Row, 25 June 2011
Photograph by Eva Herzog
El arte de la performance: teoria y práctica [Performance art: theory and practice]
A performance by Esther Ferrer at Raven Row, 25 June 2011
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view
Resonance Open, 2011
mixed media
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith