Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers
With Archers of Loaf back together, Eric Bachmann is working double time. We're honored he took the time to contribute his selections of sound architecture. Crooked Fingers, his solo project, is releasing Breaks In The Armor on October 11 on Merge.
» An archer of loaf with an ear for sound architecture.
Photo by Gary Isaacs
If you’re going to talk about sound sculpture then it seems appropriate to start with Harry Bertoia. There’s one in Chicago at the Aon Center. This is in some barn— maybe Harry Bertoia’s barn studio—being activated by his son, Val, a genius in his own right:
I don’t know who built or conceptualized this. I have a great memory of walking past it a few years ago when I was on tour in Australia and being blown away. I think it’s gone now so I’m glad some one preserved here:
It is satisfying when people salvage old things and put them to good use.
This floated around Facebook awhile back so I was reticent to put it up for fear of being too trendy. Good thing it doesn’t matter. Brilliant and damn funny.
Posted on September 22, 2011. More on: eric bachmann, crooked fingers, archers of loaf
