WTM #1137 ArtartKunst: music by/about artists // 17.10.11 "I do not paint, I hit..." • Karel Appel
Musicians inspired by artists & artists making noise is the theme. Inspired by recent visits to the COBRA Museum [Amstelveen] & the City Museum of The Hague, & a series of interconnected coincidences involving art & sound via Karel Appel, but also editing material for De Player in R'dam, which is a venue dedicated to visual artists making noise & Paloma receiving a personal letter from JP Gaultier & Black Sifichi sending me a copy of this great piece by L. Bourgeois & R. Matta that I decided to feature Mussorgsky, Jon Richman, Bjork, Status Quo, Adam & Ants who were inspired by artists but also artists making sound like Yoko, Beuys, genKen, Banksy, &, of course, Gainsbourg's flatulent song based on his novel Evguenie Sokolov about a F/Artist. Also the Holy Modal Rounders embodying that free spirit I hear visual artists applying to music. Twitter: @bartplantenga
