With 3 hours to go, 226 backers have raised $18,912, which exceeds the $15,000 goal. I'm proud to have contributed, and there's still time for you to participate if you'd like.
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Showing posts with label Sonambient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonambient. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Happy news on Harry's birthday
Harry Bertoia would have been 100 years old today. Appropriately, the Bertoia family and Important Records announced today that the Kickstarter project to raise money for the purchase of equipment necessary to save Harry's massive archive of Sonambient tape reels and release unheard works has been fully funded.
With 3 hours to go, 226 backers have raised $18,912, which exceeds the $15,000 goal. I'm proud to have contributed, and there's still time for you to participate if you'd like.
From kickstarter.org
With 3 hours to go, 226 backers have raised $18,912, which exceeds the $15,000 goal. I'm proud to have contributed, and there's still time for you to participate if you'd like.
From kickstarter.org
Friday, February 20, 2015
Help archive Harry
In 1960 Harry Bertoia accidentally struck a rod and was fascinated by the sound it made. From that time till his death in 1978, he experimented with tonal sculptures he called Sonambients. In a Pennsylvania Dutch fieldstone barn, he recorded more than 350 reels of tape and released eleven Sonambient LPs, the final creative masterworks of his lifetime.
The Harry Bertoia Foundation, Bertoia Studios and Important records currently have a Kickstarter project underway, hoping to fund the purchase of studio gear necessary to transfer the tape to electronic format.
I've contributed to the cause. If you're interested, you can get more information via the Kickstarter site.
Here are a few of the gifts contributors can receive as a token of appreciation for their generosity.
The Harry Bertoia Foundation, Bertoia Studios and Important records currently have a Kickstarter project underway, hoping to fund the purchase of studio gear necessary to transfer the tape to electronic format.
I've contributed to the cause. If you're interested, you can get more information via the Kickstarter site.
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| Harry Bertoia and a few of his Sonambients wright20.com |
Here are a few of the gifts contributors can receive as a token of appreciation for their generosity.
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| Sonambient tee kickstarter.com |
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| Sonambient poster kickstarter.com |
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| Bertoia Polaroid pack kickstarter.com |
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| 50 Photos book (numbered edition of 500) kickstarter.com |
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Harry Bertoia Centennial Table Tonal
Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was a metal sculptor, jeweler, graphic artist, and furniture designer best known for the Knoll Bertoia wire chairs. His sounding sculptures were composed of a dense cluster of stainless steel rods welded to a base, which were "played" by running a hand along the top. Bertoia, along with his contemporaries Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, George Nakashima and others, changed America’s approach to art and design.
For the first time, the Bertoia Estate now offers an exact reproduction of a tonal sculpture from Bertoia’s most popular style, which he and his son Val created together in the 1970s. The original stands with about a hundred other tonals in the Pennsylvania "Sonambient barn". (Somnambient was Bertoia's term to describe the spatial and tonal environment created by these sound sculptures.)
Check out the video. Celia Bertoia tells you a little about her father and lets you hear the Table Tonal. They are absolutely amazing, and I'd love for us to get one for the store!
For the first time, the Bertoia Estate now offers an exact reproduction of a tonal sculpture from Bertoia’s most popular style, which he and his son Val created together in the 1970s. The original stands with about a hundred other tonals in the Pennsylvania "Sonambient barn". (Somnambient was Bertoia's term to describe the spatial and tonal environment created by these sound sculptures.)
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| Harry Bertoia with some of his sculptures dailyicon.com |
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| Original large Bertoia Sonambient sculpture 1stdibs.com |
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| Smaller original Sonambient sculpture middlebury.edu |
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| Bertoia barn - Barto, PA lesliewilliamson.com |
Check out the video. Celia Bertoia tells you a little about her father and lets you hear the Table Tonal. They are absolutely amazing, and I'd love for us to get one for the store!
Information about Bertoia and the new Table Tonal from Celia Bertoia
harrybertoia.org
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