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01. LEN LYE - Blade
02. LEN LYE - Universe
03. LEN LYE - Roundhead
04. LEN LYE - Trilogy
05. LEN LYE - Big Blade
06. LEN LYE - Grass
07. LEN LYE - Storm
08. LEN LYE - Stormking
09. LEN LYE - Fountain
10. LEN LYE - Roundhead #2
11. LEN LYE - Witch Dance (Components)
12. LEN LYE - Bell Wand (Components)
13. LEN LYE - Sea Serpent
14. LEN LYE - Blade #2
ARTIST
TITLE
Composing Motion
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ACD 305CD ACD 305CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/6/2006

Very cool sound-art document, based on the unique metal sculptures of New Zealand's legendary visual artist, Len Lye. Fans of Harry Bertoia, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, etc., take note! "This CD makes available for the first time modern stereo recordings of the sounds of his sculptures, and provides an introduction to Lye's fascinating soundworld. Len Lye was one of the most innovative artists of his era. Based in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1950s and '60s, Lye was a leading figure in the development of kinetic art. He designed and built a series of moving, sound-emitting sculptures that are breathtaking visually and sonically." 'Sound crazy people vibrate to sound and this disc is for them; it's got some of the sharpest astringent zings of sound that ever cut the air, maybe because it's all made with doctor's blade steel, some of it the sharpest. ... All I know is that when it's set up in motorized vibrating and shaking devices, and struck with strikers, it cuts a new sound groove.' -- Len Lye (from program notes for an intended LP, which never got made).