About 28 minutes in the documentary was talking about how art school had an impacted on pop music in the 1960/70's. This was shown through the way Pete Townshend (singer, songwriter and guitarist from the British Rock band, The Who) learnt about the artist Gustav Metzger. Metzger created is own art term called Auto-destructive, where he destroys objects and through that art was created. This feed into the style of music through the way they experimented with feed back when the smashed up their own instruments.
Gustav Metzger
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| Gustav Metzger Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art 1960, remade 2004 © Gustav Metzger (On Tate website) |
The term Auto-destructive was created by Gustav Metzger during political unrest known as The Cold War, soon after the end of WWII. The use of nuclear weapons by the U.S against Japan in 1945, left a deep impression on the whole world. In reaction against this the anti-war group The Committee of 100 which might was been named by Metzger, was formed in 1960 and Metzger began making paintings using acid as a form of creative protest.
Auto-destructive art was automatically political; also carrying anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist messages. It addressed society’s unhealthy fascination with destruction, as well as the negative impact of machinery on our existence.
"The idea of Auto-destructive is that the destruction and decay of things/ objects was a suitable subject for art." (Brian Eno)
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| Sonic Sabotage: The Noisy History Of Auto-Destructive Music Robert Barry , March 5th, 2015 13:41 (On Website) |
29 minutes in there was a part where destruction artist smash up a piano for 24 hours in September 1966. This really interested me through the sound that is created in the process of destroying an object. Through this my friend and I got an old piano and he smashed it up and I filmed is so I could get the interesting sound.
First video of the piano getting smashed
Second video, were the hammer is hitting the kegs
Through the smashing of the piano there was a very interesting sounds from the wires inside the piano vibrating and creating there own unique sound. I found that natural sound that is created through an action to be very captivating through the way, every time someone makes an action the sound that is made each time is very different.
