Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart | Broken Music Vol. 2. 70 years of records and sound works by artists
Vinyl records – sound pressed onto a black plastic disk. Their history is an eventful one. From the beginning, its inherent contradiction was fascinating: a solid object which however contains disembodied sound. From very early on, artists realised the creative potential that records offer and turned them into artistic objects: they designed record sleeves for record labels and documented the sound of their compositions, performances, readings and installations in the grooves of the records. In doing so, they often viewed the acoustic content and the visual appearance of the records as one.
All images: © Nationalgalerie – National Museums in Berlin / Thomas Bruns
