The Jean Tinguely exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1982 offered a display of animated sculptures, including a number of Méta-Matics drawing machines, as well as the Méta-Harmonie II large-size installation. Instead of his usual artist’s interview, William Furlong chosed to document the sound of these sculptures on this Audio Arts cassette, and the result is a joyous menagerie of whimsical machines producing all kinds of erratic, irregular noises akin to heart arrhythmia. Perhaps due to these malfunctioning sounds, one feels sympathy and empathy for these automatons, rather than the expected exasperation.
The Méta-Harmonie I-IV series was intended as sound sculptures by Tinguely, and are known as “Ton-Mischmaschinen”, or Sound Mixers, according to German Wikipedia. Méta-Harmonie II, featured on this tape, is now in Basel’s Tinguely Museum, Switzerland. It includes a piano, an electric organ, bells and drums. See it in action on YouTube.
[Thanks to Giuseppe for this tape]
Sculpture at The Tate #1–13
01 #1 (2:13)
02 #2 (2:12)
03 #3 (2:26)
04 #4 (2:36)
05 #5 (2:23)
06 #6 (2:19)
07 #7 (1:10)
08 #8 (1:15
09 #9 (1:22)
10 #10 (1:19)
11 #11 (2:24)
12 Méta-Harmonie II (18:13)
13 #12 (1:38)
14 #13 (1:38)
Total time 43:08
Cassette released by Audio Arts, London, UK, 1983
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Thank you!
Carlo
Thanks for commenting, Carlo.
FELICITATION
Yea Giuseppe
God bless Giuseppe, indeed!
many thanks for this rarity!
You’re welcome, John.
Hello,since you were the first one where i could find sound stuff of Tinguely back in 2009 i was hoping that finally you might be coming around with this gem and:Voila!!
Thank you very much again…
Well, to be frank, without a little help from Giuseppe, nothing would have happened. Thanks for your comment and loyalty to this blog.
Thanks Continuo, Thanks Twinkle II, I am glad that you liked that.
Giuseppe