Minoy

ISBN: 9780692234273 出版年：2014 页码：108 Nechvatal, Joseph punctum books

Min贸y is a rescue operation with several life rafts. Min贸y-the-book provides an introduction and overview to the important noise music artist Min贸y 鈥?the pseudonym of American electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (1951-2010). Min贸y audio compositions, often conjuring up an enigmatic world of almost dreadful depth, earned him a key position in the homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. Min贸y-the-CD (available HERE) makes available nine of Min贸y audio compositions that span the years 1985 to 1993. These were drawn from recently discovered archival material and selected by the editor and artistic director of the project, Joseph Nechvatal, in collaboration with composer Phillip B. Klingler (PBK). Klingler (co-producer and sound engineer) houses the Min贸y archive and has re-mastered the tracks, most of which have never been heard before (it was thought that Min贸y stopped recording in 1992). Min贸y-the-book contains two written monograms of Min贸y, one by close friend Amber Sabri and one by artist and art theoretician Joseph Nechvatal. There are three additional essays by Nechvatal, the first of which, 鈥淭he Obscurity of Min贸y,鈥?recounts the history of the recovery of the audio material from obscurity. In the subsequent essays (鈥淭he Aesthetics of an Obscure Monster Sacr茅鈥?and 鈥淗yper Noise Aesthetics鈥?, Nechvatal reflects on the artistic benefits of obscurity and situates Min贸y deep droning palimpsest soundscapes within an original aesthetic-theoretical context of an obscure monster sacr茅, and also examines Min贸y legacy in terms of current aesthetic responses to the surveillance state, couching Min贸y mysterious and excessive compositions in terms of a general art of noise. In total, Min贸y work undergoes a critical intricacy in terms of a contemporary art practice engaged in the fragile balance between production of, and resistance to, perceptibility. Nechvatal brings a subversive reading to Min贸y work by presenting it as a form of hyper-noise artistic gazing, based in the flipping of figure and ground. The book also contains sixty black and white portrait images from the Min贸y as Haint as King Lear series that photographer Maya Eidolon (Amber Sabri) created before his death in collaboration with Min贸y (then known as Haint) and Stuart Hass (Min贸y lifetime partner).