Last Thursday I went to Sound art at Barbican Art Gallery to visit The Body Politics of Carolee Schneemann. I am inspired by her works. Here is what I found from her work related to sound.

Noise Bodies–Carolee Schneemann

Music Box Music–Carolee Shneemann, 1964

wood, glass, oil paint and music boxes

Music Box Music is a ‘portable sound sculpture’ made from repurposed music box mechanisms attached to splinters of broken glass. Schneemann wrapped the music boxes in kerosene-soaked rags and lit them on fire, the intense heat warping their tapes of endlessly looping nursery rhymes (including Marry Had a Little Lamb and Lullaby and Goodnight). These were re-incorporated into the sculpture, which became central to a series of performances of the same name. Schneemann brought the sculpture onto a stage, wound up the boxes, and left the distorted songs to run until the mechanism ground to a halt.