2005-01-30

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TATE ETC. issue 3: The Art of Noise

In 1916 Marcel Duchamp, who was no more interested in the materiality of sound than he was in the retinal nature of painting or the logic of a text, once concealed a noise in a ball of string. To be more accurate, the noise-making object was added by Walter Arensberg, who is now dead, which means that nobody other than him has ever known, or will ever know, what it was.Duchamp also imagined, in The Green Box notes, a musical sculpture of sounds lasting and leaving from different places and forming a sounding sculpture which lasts.