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 ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 10/14/2023 ICP presents Melissa Harris and Dr. Karen Folger Jacobs on the reissue of 'Mary Ellen Mark: Falkland Road'DATE 10/9/2023 On Indigenous Peoples' Day, an exceptional catalog of Native American Art of the last millenniumDATE 10/4/2023 ICP presents the launch of 'Lee Friedlander: Real Estate'DATE 9/28/2023 Comprehensive, long-overdue retrospective of Henry Taylor opens at the WhitneyDATE 9/26/2023 Turn-of-the-century typographic revolution in 'Die Fläche'DATE 9/23/2023 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents Theo Deutinger and Sharon Helgason Gallagher launching 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'DATE 9/22/2023 Mindblowing info-design in Theo Deutinger's 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'DATE 9/21/2023 Hot book alert! ‘Chloe Sherman: Renegades’ is NEW from Hatje CantzDATE 9/20/2023 Groundbreaking and expansive: 'Simone Leigh'DATE 9/18/2023 'Rob Wynne: Obstacle Illusion' is NEW from Gregory R. Miller & Co.DATE 9/15/2023 'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is a book for lifeDATE 9/14/2023 Highly anticipated 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years' is NEW from D.A.P. PublishingDATE 9/14/2023 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Cynthia Carlson and Thomas Mellins launching 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years' | 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. |