Jack Goldstein "A suite of nine 45 rpm 7-inch records with sound effects."
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Specific Object / David Platzker presents "Jack Goldstein: A suite of nine 45 rpm 7-inch records with sound effects."
In 1976 artist Jack Goldstein began producing a series of audio works on vinyl records, the first of which was a suite of nine 45 rpm 7-inch records with sound effects. The 45s were paired with titles suggestive of their audio content and pressed in colored vinyl visually related to the sounds and their titles. The suite of nine consists of the following tracks:
A Swim Against the Tide, on blue vinyl
A German Shepard, on red vinyl
A Faster Run, on orange vinyl
The Tornado, on purple vinyl
The Dying Wind, on clear vinyl
The Burning Forest, on marbled red and white vinyl
The Lost Ocean Liner, on black vinyl
Two Wrestling Cats, on yellow vinyl
Three Felled Trees, on green vinyl
The sounds in Jack's records were images he had wanted to make into films. The physical presence and color of each record was important. A sound recording of a tornado was rendered in purple vinyl, for example, since he observed that purple was the color of tornadoes when photographed. [Matt] Mullican remembers a visit he and Jack made to a Jannis Kounellis show at Sonnabend Gallery in 1974. The white cube had been painted bright yellow, and a real black horse stood against the wall. Jack was struck by Kounellis's objectification of the horse, which echoed his own concern with controlling animals and natural forces in pared-down, objectified images, as he did in films such as Shane, 1976, in which a German shepherd, set against an uninflected black background, barked repeatedly on command.
-- "Vanishing Act: Chrissie Iles on Jack Goldstein," Artforum, May 2003
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from May 01, 2012 to June 01, 2012