A reincarnation of Luigi Russolo’s ‘Intonarumori’, the last of which were destroyed in the Second World War. Built from the few surviving written descriptions of the original machines and put together from the detritus (cupboards, painter’s easels, broom handles) of Gerrit Rietveld’s pre-post-Futurist glass and steel art school building.
‘The Growler’ was played sporadically throughout the graduation exhibition but not recorded. Beyond the fading fragments preserved in the memories of the show’s visitors, the only evidence that our machine actually produced sounds is this interruption of a recorded interview that was taking place in the adjacant room:
( ( ( recording coming soon ) ) )
Parallel to The Growler, we produced and broadcast a publication/script of ‘lost sounds’. As with the machine, the broadcast was not recorded, our voices dissolving, irretrievably, into air.
47pp.; 240 × 325 mm; mimeography; custom typeface.
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