There are few good representations of the wonderful exhibition See This Sound online: a 15 second video of Tony Conrad‘s wonderful performance opening, hastily put together short videos – one being a private one – very few good still photos, etc. This is due mostly to the “no recordings” rule put in place which is a real shame because this had to have been one of the best curated exhibitions of sound art of the last century that I’d ever seen or even read about. After three and a half hours inside, I was just about ready to take my shoes off and enter La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela‘s “Dreamhouse” when it became clear that the museum would soon be closing. The next day, I continued exploring for at least another 3 hours. It would seem to me that the curators would want to present some kind of video presentation of honor by featuring some selected excerpts of what could be experienced here, but it appears that the experience can only be approximated by reading from the current batch of 3 books currently in print – over 1000 pages – related to this extraordinary exhibit. In future posts, I hope to speak more about the various artists, their works and styles that were featured here.
Six photos – the last four kindly provided by the folks at Linz09.
