Terry Fox

• 180 GRAM VINYL

• Gatefold jacket with booklet

• Limited to 750 numbered copies

Terry Fox was a first generation Bay Area conceptual artist. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked extensively with sound, especially the use of piano wires detached from their native instrument and anchored between opposing walls of the performance space. Linkage, Fox's first album, was originally released in 1982 to accompany an installation at Kunstmuseum Luzern in Switzerland. The record would mark Fox's first attempt to realize his groundbreaking and visceral piece "Berlin Wall Scored for Sound." Side one links five ways of playing the piano wires: drumming, pulling, bowing, beating and scraping. The room itself acts as a type of natural resonator as Fox moves the wires with padded mallet, his bare fingers, violin bow, wooden shish kebab stick and rusted metal rod. The effect of such plain arrangements can be utterly hypnotizing. The second half of Linkage was recorded in the attic of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, West Berlin, in May 1981.

Side A includes excerpts from a performance at the Kunstmuseum Bern, in the artist's studio in San Francisco in 1975, and at the artist's studio in West Berlin in 1981.

Side B was recorded in the attic of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, West-Berlin, in May 1981.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Drumming
• A2. Pulling
• A3. Bowing
• A4. Beating
• A5. Scraping

• SIDE B
• B1. Ether
• B2. The News
• B3. The Vicar And The Cowboy
• B4. The Bear
• B5. Sign Off