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ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 7/15/2025 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2025DATE 6/25/2025 Rizzoli presents Anderson Zaca with Thom (Panzi) Hansen for the NYC launch of 'Fire Island Invasion: A Day of Independence'DATE 6/22/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Dawoud Bey, Michelle Kuo and Joseph Logan on 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger'DATE 6/22/2025 Enlightening 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/21/2025 ICP Photobook Club presents Anderson Zaca on 'Fire Island Invasion'DATE 6/20/2025 Attention photobook collectors, ‘Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke’ is Back in Stock!DATE 6/15/2025 Gasoline and Magic for Father's Day, 2025DATE 6/13/2025 In Nydia Blas' 'Love, You Came from Greatness,' the title says it allDATE 6/12/2025 'Gordon Parks: Segregation Story' is Back in Stock!DATE 6/9/2025 Four decades of previously unpublished work by Bruce DavidsonDATE 6/8/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents J. Hoberman and Melissa Rachleff Burtt on 'Everything is Now'DATE 6/7/2025 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Jeanette Spicer launching 'To the Ends of the Earth'DATE 6/5/2025 A love letter from Robert Frank | EXCERPTS & ESSAYSMING LIN | DATE 8/12/2011Documenta Notebooks: Erkki KurenniemiIn the first track of Erkki Kurenniemi's 1968 debut album Information Explosion, a single resounding beep escalates unceremoniously into a cacophony of sound. There are bursts of classical music and splashes of synthesizer. Occasionally it bears resemblance to the popular German synthpop band Kraftwerk, but unlike the former, Kurenniemi provides no safe narrative in which the listener can take refuge--there are only sporadic episodes of recognizable sound from an eclectic array of samples. This cut-and-paste approach might be likened to the work of Christian Marclay, whose "sound collages" were composed of clips woven together from records on a turntable. Kurenniemi's works, however, are determined by a more concrete rationale. A trained nuclear physicist and mathematician turned musician, it is evident that his compositions are fueled by an underlying logic. |