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

Date2007
Maker Jonathan Monk English, born 1969
Label TextThis 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.
Object number2008.8
ProvenanceThe artist; [Steven Leiber Gallery, San Francisco, California, until 2008]; purchased from gallery with funds from Virginia and Bagley Wright
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Sound Affect, Apr. 27, 2019 - Feb. 2, 2020.
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Virginia and Bagley Wright
DimensionsRecord and sleeve: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Photograph: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Medium33 rpm record, silkscreen print on paper and black-and-white photograph
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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