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Graffiti Composition
Live album by
Christian Marclay
ReleasedAugust 17, 2010 (2010-08-17)
RecordedMuseum of Modern Art, September 13, 2006
Length40:45
LabelDog W/A Bone
ProducerElliott Sharp
Christian Marclay chronology
The Sounds of Christmas
(2008) 		Graffiti Composition
(2010)

Graffiti Composition is an album by Christian Marclay. It began as a street installation in 1996 before being converted into a score and recorded. The album was released by Dog W/A Bone on August 17, 2010.

Composition

In 1996 the

Berlin Academy of Arts commissioned Marclay for the Sonambiente sound art festival.[1] He plastered 5,000 blank posters of sheet music throughout the city.[2] Marclay stated that he was "not only interested in breaking the tradition within the music or whatever I'm making, but also bringing it into a different location, to a new audience."[3]

Most of the posters were plastered over or torn down.

Deutsche Bank Collection purchased the photographs in 2011.[7]

Performance and recording

Graffiti Composition was previewed at

LSO St Luke's on March 22, 2005.[6] Steve Beresford conducted a nine-piece ensemble of strings, brass, guitar, piano, harp, and percussion.[8][9]

Elliott Sharp directed the recorded performance.

The album was recorded on September 13, 2006 during a performance at the

Min Xiaofen.[13]

Reception

When Beresford previewed the composition, The Guardian denounced it as "offensive" and commented that the performance sounded "like every other left-field collage of scrape and hoot cobbled together to bolster the elitism of a tiny audience."[8] The Times was impressed by its "poise and clarity" but said that it lacked energy.[9]

After the album's release,

Pitchfork Media said that it "rarely coheres into something larger than a collection of sonic events" and described the result as "uneven".[14] PopMatters joked that "your enjoyment of my review might be increased if you understand that it is comprised of words randomly contributed by other people. Mayonnaise."[12]

Track listing

  1. "Graffiti Composition 1" – 3:00
  2. "Graffiti Composition 2" – 7:02
  3. "Graffiti Composition 3" – 5:35
  4. "Graffiti Composition 4" – 9:35
  5. "Graffiti Composition 5" – 6:40
  6. "Graffiti Composition 6" – 8:55

Notes

  1. ^ a b Hall, Glen (September 21, 2010). "Christian Marclay Graffiti Composition". Exclaim!. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Sharp, Elliott. "Christian Marclay - Graffiti Composition". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c González et al. 2005, p. 80.
  4. ^ Estep, Jan (2001). "Words and Music: Interview with Christian Marclay". New Art Examiner. 29 (1): 78–83.
  5. ^ Criqui 2014, p. 148.
  6. ^ a b Hewett, Ivan (March 10, 2005). "The music's on the wall in Berlin". The Daily Telegraph. p. 19. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  7. ^ Glöde, Marc (February 2012). "Unfolding Sound: Christian Marclay's Acoustic-Visual Worlds". ArtMag (68). Deutsche Bank. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  8. ^ a b Peschek, David (March 28, 2005). "Review: Pop". The Guardian. p. 18. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  9. ^ a b Brown, Geoff (March 24, 2005). "Graffiti Composition". The Times. p. 21.
  10. Allmusic
    . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  11. ^ Trainor, James (2006). "Graffiti Composition". frieze (103). Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  12. ^ a b Edwards, D. M. (March 16, 2011). "Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition". PopMatters. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  13. Whitney Museum of American Art
    . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  14. Pitchfork Media
    . Retrieved May 25, 2015.

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