UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N'ABOLIRA LE HASARD - MUSIQUE, Michalis Pichler, 2009

UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS NABOLIRA LE HASARD (MUSIQUE)
Michalis Pichler, 2009

all the text of Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name is cut out and played on an automatic piano

instrument: Pianola Metrostyle Themodist
The Aeolian Company, NY 1910
location: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
camera & sound engineering: Michael Otto
sound assistance: Misaki Kawabe, Nick Thurston

http://www.buypichler.com/coup.html

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reference:
UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS NABOLIRA LE HASARD (SCULPTURE)

Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) is a book by Michalis Pichler published 2008 in Berlin. The work is a close copy of the 1914 edition of the french symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, but with all the words cut out by laser, in a way that corresponds directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text*.

A Preface features the entire poem written as a block of text with each line separated by a slash (/). This block-transcription of the Mallarme-Text was carried out in 1969 by Broodthaers.
12 double spreads follow, with immaculately cut out windows standing in for the text. When turning the pages, numerous shadows are being generated by the cutouts.

The work is soft bound and feels quite insubstantial. The cover is a facsimile of the original cover as published in 1914 by Librairie Gallimard, with the word 'SCULPTURE' replacing 'POEME' (or 'IMAGE') in the centre of the design.
500 copies are produced on paper, 90 on translucent paper and 10 on acrylic glass plates.
A version of the book can be played on an automatic piano, here on a Pianola Metrostyle Themodist, The Aeolian Company, NY 1910.

Historical note:

* Mallarmé had written the poem in 1897, also saw it published in a magazine called Cosmopolis, but left copious notes as to how it should be typeset, instructions that were finally carried out 16 years after his death, in 1914.
In 1969 this work was appropriated by notorious Marcel Broodthaers, who replaced the words by black stripes. He replaced the classification 'POEME' on the cover by the word 'IMAGE'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Coup_de_D%C3%A9s_Jamais_N%27Abolira_Le_Hasard...)

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[albanybeardguy]

Dear God WHY??

[artrioangelus]

The best part of this artistic performance is the first 30 seconds.

[hipnerotomachia]

W Mallarmé

[Yirmheya]

C nimporte quoi

[WelteMax]

What does the left indicator indicate?

[zer0arts]

yeah! wild west style!