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1998 - Thurston Moore’s “Root” exhibit @ Chisenhale Gallery in London. This experience blew my tiny 21-year-old mind 🤯 (I still have the CD somewhere in a box, though it appears you can purchase the tracks on bandcamp https://lorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/root-lo11)

“In October of 1997 independent music label Lo Recordings received a DAT tape containing 30 different one-minute guitar pieces by New York arthouse guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Each piece was copied onto individual one-minute tapes and then packaged in a custom designed vacuum cleaner bag. In order to fully exploit the potential for musical/visual cross-fertilization In Recordings teamed up with leading contemporary art venture Commercial Too. One hundred bags were sent out to a selection of the most creative visual artists and musicians, inviting them to create a brand new work utilising the original piece as a starting point. The original idea was to produce a CD compilation of music together with an exhibition of visual work. However, so overwhelming was the response that the project has expanded to include a web-site, various off-shoot events and a second CD with accompanying CD-Rom to be released in the new year. Root will be launched with an exhibition in October at Chisenhale Gallery and will also form part of the Pandmmonium Festival.”