Medium Music Listening Station: RYB, 2014

Installation view: In Virtual Vitro, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany, 2014

Photo: Andrea Rossetti
Installation view: In Virtual Vitro, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany, 2014

Photo: Andrea Rossetti
Installation view: In Virtual Vitro, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany, 2014

Photo: Carsten Eisfeld
Collection

Two yellow felt curtains, Rails, Record Player, Table, Genelec Speakers, Pre-Amp, Records (ABCD LP), two Alvar Aalto Stools
Dimensions variable


In Angela Bulloch’s Music Listening Station RYB the basic colors red, yellow and blue set the notes of a musical journey. The visitor is engaged by playing records published by Bulloch’s own label "ABCDLP“, thereby shaping the sequence and formation of the installation. Instead of an individual encounter between object and observer, Music Listening Station RYB creates a social atmosphere in which people come together and participate in common activities: the audience becomes the viewing and listening component of the installation. By combining design classics with specially commissioned components, Bulloch plays on the tension between design and art. Also, the cover and the sound carrier were conceived by the artist in small editions, questioning the difference between a unique piece of art and a mass-produced work. The name of the record label denotes her initials, along with the various formats of sound carriers used in the piece. The declination of basic forms, sounds and colors – circles and squares in red, yellow and blue creating minimalistic electro-beats – can also be seen as Bulloch’s homage to the modernistic and minimal art movement.


*1966 in Ontario, Canada | Living and working in Berlin, Germany