ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2022 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveDATE 2/16/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2023 CAA National ConferenceDATE 2/15/2023 The Brooklyn Museum presents the launch of 'Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects' by András SzántóDATE 2/5/2023 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the Winter 2023 Shoppe Object Independent Home and Gift ShowDATE 1/30/2023 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the book celebration and signing of 'Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces'DATE 1/29/2023 Lyrical and exuberant, 'Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature' releases this weekDATE 1/27/2023 'Elizaveta Porodina: Un/Masked' opens at Fotografiska New YorkDATE 1/24/2023 Themes of gender, race, class and social change in 'Events of the Social'DATE 1/23/2023 Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.!DATE 1/21/2023 Deborah Bell presents Elaine Mayes and Kevin Moore on 'The Haight-Ashbury Portraits'DATE 1/21/2023 Into the meat grinderDATE 1/19/2023 McNally Jackson Books Seaport and Primary Information present Mirene Arsanios, Constance DeJong and Annie-B ParsonDATE 1/19/2023 Humanity, depth and insight in 'Peter Hujar Curated by Elton John'DATE 1/18/2023 Amy Sherald, infusing the present and the future with hope | 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. |