Cover: cardboard, stamped with title-intormation and other different-colored motives. 30cm, 33RPM, numbered, Cincinnati / Ohio. Perf: John Bender(voc, el wds & mus), Jack Gorski(wds & mus).

Per: John Bender(voc,el,wds & mus). Contents: Station. Plaster. Women. People. Something. Records. Knuckles. Cities. Street.

Cover: cardboard covered with latex, title sprayed on, further information stamped. Print: "sealed in latex for your protection." "to open: pull string along taped edge."

Harry Bertoia, whose creations, in addition to refined tactile values, have equal appeal for the ear and the eye. This artist - whose first claim to fame was the "Bertoia" chair, in 1952, and who was since provided major decorative elements for public buildings all over the nation - has been showing, in a group of recent works on display at the Staempfli Gallery in New York, a number of extraordinary Sounding sculptures. These are somewhat difficult to describe, and illustration does them but partial justice. They consist, basically, of seried ranks of tall slender metal rods, placed either upright or at special slants in rectangular formations. These metalic fasces are not rigid, but "give" when stoked - at the same time releasing lingering musical chords of a weirdly haunting quality, like some other wordly harps. Monotony is ruled out, since there never can be an exact repetition, and possession would not bring about a surfeit but rather heighten and deepen the spell. -D'Otrange Mastai(Excerpt from covertext).

The Bertoia "sounding sculptures" are timeless rather than merely modern. When one recalls the absurd and unpleasant use of discordant sound in extremist srt work, one is grateful indeed that these innovations should now serve to express instead an artistic gospel of serenity and peace, and above all a reverent kinship with Nature. The works of Harry Bertoia celebrate the bounty of the good earth shimmering sheafs of golden wheat stalked in endless rows on "the fruiteful plain"; great crashing cataracts, with crystal-pure and steelhard volutes; or the swift, mystic rushing of myriad-rayed comets against the sky's infinity. To suggest so much, by means so simple, is the mark of a great lyrical poet.

This is sculpture that throbs and chants, wheather literally, in the "sounding sculptures," or by suggestion. Its appeal, to all who unite a love of forms to the love of music, should be both immediate and enduring. by D'Otrange Mastai.

Cover: b/w, picture of 'the Bertoia sounding sculptures' and textinformation, cover photo by Guy Tomme. 30cm, 33RPM, n.d.(1979), No. LPS 10570.

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