MMW Kiosk @ Louisiana Museum
I adapted musicandthemindofthe.world to function as a kiosk installation at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark for an exhibition called The Irreplaceable Human. The composition is over 8 days long so the kiosk is able to play it on loop and run indefinitely at the museum.
About Music and the Mind of the World: From 1976 to 1982, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) created “Music and the Mind of the World,” a piano composition comprising over 200 hours of recorded music. During this time everything Conrad played on the piano was recorded (with the incidental exception of perhaps three or four hours). In this endeavor – which includes the sounds of practicing, banging on the keys, formal exercises, experiments with the harmonic sonority of the piano itself, and even “On Top of Old Smokey” – we witness what might in essence be described as the total encounter between an improvising performer and the central instrument of Western musical culture. Now, for the first time, this influential yet largely unknown work has been published by Arcangel Surfware and is now available online for free at the domain musicandthemindofthe.world.
