Obstacle 80XT, by Rick Myers

Obstacle 80XT

by Rick Myers

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High-bias tape, with the cover printed and assembled by Rick Myers in the Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass.

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A limited edition cassette, utilizing a test pressing of Myers’s imminent debut solo LP (2022, Cejero, Copenhagen) for a cut-up spoken text. This precursory release and “spoken text for two pianos and piano strings, transducer, tape and magnetic fields + turntable”, expands a body of interdisciplinary “Obstacle” artworks by Myers, encompassing drawing, writing, photographic works, video and sound.

Produced in a run of 57 numbered copies (with the first ten forming an elaborate artwork edition), professionally duplicated on High Bias tape, with the cover printed and assembled by Rick Myers in his Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass. In a recent NTS Radio show, Andy Votel previewed a track from the cassette along with this endorsement, “Rick Myers is the record industry’s living nightmare incarnate.”

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released November 12, 2021

Spoken text for two pianos and piano strings, transducer, tape and magnetic fields + turntable. Written between 2019 and 2021.

Spoken text and pianos performed in July and August 2020. Recorded by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, Mass.

Turntable recorded in April 2021 at the Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass. using a test pressing of the LP, Obstacle #80: Indices.

Written and performed by Rick Myers with additional magnetic fields by Madeleine Myers. Edited and mixed at the Cabin Studio, Easthampton, Mass.

Edition of 57 copies. 1-10: audio cassette, brass screw posts, silver gelatin print, fused xerographic toner, linen, plywood. 11-57: audio cassette, box, insert.

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Rick Myers Massachusetts

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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