Big Egos – Sound Works by Visual Artists (1981-2006)

Thoughts on voices coming from a screen. Detail cover art compilation Tellus – The Audio Cassette Magazine #17: Video Arts Music, 1987

Visual artists see things differently. 45-minute mix with sound works by Carole Caroompas, Dieter Roth, Jess Holzworth and Jutta Koether, Magazzini Criminali and others.

Featured cover art: David ShrigleyShrigley Forced To Speak With Others

Joe D’Agostino – Sort of

Some video arts music. (1987, Tellus)

Richard Prince – Catherine

The rephotography icon’s approach to music. (1984, Tellus) 

Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others – Rock Festival

Satan’s apocalyptic rock concert, remembered by satirical artist and Guardian Saturday Magazine columnist David Shrigley. (2006, LateNightTales)

Janice Felger / Joan Hugo – One Minute Of Art News Update In 30 Seconds

An idea from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. (1976, Los Angeles Free Music Society)

Kim Rosenfield – Four Selections From The Book ‘Some Of Us’

From the artist‘s first collection of poems. (1983, Freeway Records)

Rüdiger Carl – Sweet Mammoth Waltz

A jack-of-all-trades at work. (1998, FMP)

Dieter Roth – Harmonica Curse (excerpt)

Long-term diary project with an accordion in Iceland. (1981, Audio Arts)

Jill Kroesen – Jeanne D’Arc

Eager to act. (1983, Les Disques Du Crépuscule)

Magazzini Criminali – Bombay, Tramonto, H. 19,40

Experimental theatre group from Florence that makes use of musical appropriation. (1983, Riviera Records)

Jess Holzworth / Jutta Koether – Untitled

Applied pychogeography in NYC. (2000, Ecstatic Peace!)

Peter Rose / Fred Curchack – Vox

Thoughts on voices coming from a screen. (1987, Tellus)

Lawrence Weiner – A bit of matter

From the conceptual artist’s video work, which combines investigations into male/female, subject/object with bubble gum jazz. (1976, La Box)

Marina La Palma – Ridi Ridi

New wave with an avantgarde background. (1981, Concentric Circles)

Dan Lander – Talking To A Loudspeaker: Here Comes Everybody (with Gregory Whitehead)

The promise of one world. (1989, Empreintes DIGITALes)

Carole Caroompas – Bedroom Eyes

The painter and performance artist from Los Angeles goes pop. (1981, self released)

Willie Cole – Carousel

Soundtrack for an interactive artwork for children. (1997, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago)

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