BERTOIA, HARRY

"Harry Bertoia's sound sculptures developed from years of work as both a commissioned furniture maker for Knoll and as an environmental sculptor who built large scale balancing kinetic pieces, usually out of bronze. But in the 1960s and 1970s, Bertoia and his son Val began experimenting with resonant properties of metal itself with huge sculptures of vertical metal shafts that were affixed to a base. They discovered that at those lengths - some upwards of 20' - the metal was flexible enough to sustain an extended vibration that continued to resonate within the symphony of tiny strikes with the adjoining metal rods. Thus a slight brush against one of the Bertoia sculptures would trigger a massive swell of metallic drones. Bertoia made an incredible number of recordings in the barn that housed the majority of these sculptures, and produced 11 records from his favorite recordings." [Jim Haynes/Aquarius Records]

Album	Format	Label & Cat. Number	Description	Year	Price (incl. 19% VAT)
Sonambients : The Sound Sculpture of Harry Bertoia	CD + DVD	Important Records / Sonambient FW-1034	a film from 1971 entitled "Sonambients" showing HARRY BERTOIA in performance + interview + and at his barn in the Pennsylvania woods on the DVD, plus four recently found early recordings from 1969 by BERTOIA and his brother and sister who sings overtunes to the sculpture sounds !! All for the first time published	2017	€24.00
Experimental I / Mechanical I	CD	FW1035CD	more unreleased sculpture recordings from BERTOIA's archive, which was now fully opened to issue his earliest recordings, the CD version has one extra track !! " Like his sculptures, Bertoia never titled his recordings but frequently referred to specific concepts he was pursuing. These are among the earliest known examples of Bertoia using terms which would become more common in the years to come: 'experimental', 'mechanical' "	2019	€15.00
Experimental I / Mechanical I	LP	Sonambient FW1035LP	more unreleased sculpture recordings from BERTOIA's archive, which was now fully opened to issue his earliest recordings, two long pieces like acoustic paintings, minimal and floating " Like his sculptures, Bertoia never titled his recordings but frequently referred to specific concepts he was pursuing. These are among the earliest known examples of Bertoia using terms which would become more common in the years to come: 'experimental', 'mechanical' and 'long sounds' "	2019	€25.00
Hints Of Things To Come	CD	SONAMBIENT FW1038CD	four unreleased "sculpture ambience" pieces from the archive, recorded around 1970, with the over 30 min. long, deep harmonic title piece and first experiments with overdubbing... - "This CD is defined by ambient passages, long drones, gongs that sound like whales, shimmering harmonics and the feeling of an artist searching for sounds deep within his own sonic sculpture."	2023	€17.00