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The Sound of Music (A record with the sound of its own making)

2007

English, born 1969

This single-sided vinyl record plays the sound of its own production. A tongue-in-cheek response to Robert Morris’s Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, it does not record the artist at work but the mechanical process of making a record, illustrated in the accompanying photograph.

33 rpm record, silkscreen print on paper and black-and-white photograph

Record and sleeve: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)

Photograph: 12 x 12 in.

Purchased with funds from Virginia and Bagley Wright

2008.8

Provenance: The artist; [Steven Leiber Gallery, San Francisco, California, until 2008]; purchased from gallery with funds from Virginia and Bagley Wright

Not currently on view

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Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Sound Affect, Apr. 27, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.

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