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The author defines Acrophony as a means of using symbols (glyphs) to represent sounds. The two main properties of music are duration and pitch; with these two elements in mind, the author set out to compose a notation system using the glyphs of the planets as the scale. Acrophony is a project created in 1991 that explores symbols and sound. Merging visual and soundscape artwork using a unique invented musical hieroglyphic language; Acrophony is a work concerned with art and language. Each of the fifty books is hand printed onto handmade paper with original wood cuts, lino cuts, wood engravings. The box that contains the CD and book is also hand printed and assembled with a vacuumed formed port (hand painted) made from the symbols used in the text and notations. The CD is original music by the artist with hand printed original lino cuts and hand set and cast type for the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A book by Vittorio Fava is depicted on page 7 that is either held by the Sackner Archive or similar to the one that is held. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Taken from Archive of O!!Zine 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Denoted as #15 of 6th series of musical books. Consists of three blocks of hollowed painted wood that have moveable metal objects within them to give sounds when shakened. The blocks are joined together by cardboard onto which has been printed a listing of types of books, viz., A Book of Hours, A Log Book, A Workbook, A Psalter, A Hymnal, An Ablum, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Denoted as #15 of 6th series of musical books. Consists of three blocks of hollowed painted wood that have moveable metal objects within them to give sounds when shakened. The blocks are joined together by cardboard onto which has been printed a listing of types of books, viz., A Book of Hours, A Log Book, A Workbook, A Psalter, A Hymnal, An Ablum, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was drawn from the Archive of Paolo Della Grazia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents One pamphlet is the music score of Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1933) in the American movie "Moulin Rouge." The other pamphlet by Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton "A Cellular Maze," (1983) is a polemic of the British prison system in Northern Ireland. This book is based upon an exhibition held in 2000 but as Emmett Williams comments on the dust jacket "by no stretch of the imagination could you describe it as an art catalogue...Call it simply an artists' nonbook Happening that happens to be a monument to the art of bookmaking." This book also reprints a manifesto by Oldenburg from Store Days (1961) as follows below. I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all, an art given the chance of having a starting point of zero. I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap & still comes out on top. I am for an art that imitates the human, that is...

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The pages of this book consist of 33 rpm music records cut uniformly into a rectangular shape with the center retaining the label of the song. Most of the songs are rock music including recordings by Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.