The Sound of Music (A record with the sound of its own making)
2007
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. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
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
