Obstacle #80: Indices

by Rick Myers

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Spoken text for two pianos and piano strings, transducer, tape and magnetic fields. Written between 2019 and 2020 and performed in July and August 2020 by Rick Myers.

"This LP forms a performed index to a body of artwork called 'Obstacle Corpus' that encompasses drawing, writing, photographic and book works, video and sound. For the recording, I alternated between the same note on two pianos played at once while performing a spoken text. The text was written in two parts, using the titles of 75 so-called 'Obstacle' artworks made during 2019, dispersed into a new text entitled 'Field' that was written in the form of a drawing. Tape recordings of the performance were exposed to magnetic fields and amplified back through a piano using electromagnetic and physical contact with its strings, making a circuit that occasionally emitted sparks while short-circuiting during the recording."

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released February 10, 2022

Recorded by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, Mass.

Edited and mixed by Rick Myers at the Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass.

Additional magnetic fields by Madeleine Myers.

Released by Cejero, Copenhagen. Edition of 300 copies.

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Rick Myers is a Manchester-born artist living in Western Massachusetts.
Solo exhibitions include The National Poetry Library & the Courtauld Institute Library, London; Printed Matter, NY; & White Columns, NY. The Library of Congress, Harvard University, MIT, MoMA, Stanford University, Tate Britain, & Yale University, among other institutions hold his artist books in permanent collections. ... more

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