MILAN KNIZAK broken music LP 1979 avant marchetti cage

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Milan Knizak "Broken Music" LP issued by Multhipla Records (n.5) in Italy, 1979. Gatefold sleeve. ****** Rec:m- / Cov:ex ****** Ultra rare Milan Knizak "Broken Music" LP released on Multhipla in 1979, presenting 5 ‘compositions’ of materials assembled by Walter Marchetti, through which we can get a precise idea of these operations of ‘destroyed music’, in some aspects similar to Cage’s poetics (think about "Radio Music"). Czech Fluxus artist Milan Knížák started experimenting with vinyl records in the 1960's by warping, altering or otherwise destroying them to create new sound sources. He is noted as having developed his techniques a number of years before the better known vinyl artist,Christian Marclay. Here is a direct testimony from master Knizak himself: "…from 1963 to 1964 I used to play records either too slowly or too fast and thus change the quality of the music. In 1965 i started to destroy records: scratch them, punch holes in them, break them. By playing them (which destroyed the needle and often the record player, too) an entirely new music was created, unexpected, nerve-racking, and aggressive. Compositions lasted a second or for an infinitely long time (like when the needle got stuck in a deep groove and played the same phrase over and over again). Soon i developed this system even further. I began sticking tape on top of records, painting over them, burning them, cutting them up and gluing parts of different records back together again to achieve the widest possible variety of sounds. Later I began to work in the same way with scores. I erased some of the notes, signatures, and whole bars. I added notes and signatures, changed the tempo and order of the bars, played the compositions backwards, turned the lines upside down, pasted different parts of different scores together, and so on". Czech artist Milan Knizak got involved in the Fluxus movement already in the early Sixties and, once the political situation in his country changed, he became rector of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (1990-97) and then general director of the National Gallery (since 1999). As for all of the Fluxus artists, his work pulled down the boundaries among the specific media of the arts, dealing then also with ‘music’. Titanically fundamental!!! ****** The record looks like it has never been played. Top conditions! ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 16,50 / to America and Oceania is USD 22,50. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos:  to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.