Sonambient Box Set by Important Records available at HarryBertoia.org/Shop. The tall tonal wire pieces came about when he was bending a single wire and it broke off, flew through the air and made a wonderful sound. “It’s not like playing piano or guitar, where you purposely end notes in order to start other notes, and that’s what Harry liked about it. Complete Sonambient Collection by Harry Bertoia: Harry Bertoia: Amazon.es: Música Selecciona Tus Preferencias de Cookies Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares para mejorar tu experiencia de compra, prestar nuestros servicios, entender cómo los utilizas para … Video credit goes to Tian Dayton. He was already a world-renowned designer and sculptor — most famous for ­diamond-shaped chairs that remain popular today — when he came upon the idea to create art that makes sound. Genuine Harry Bertoia Design Val Bertoia … Bertoia was equally inspired by the vastness of the universe and enjoyed telling stories of celestial constellations as if intimately familiar with them. He has also performed concerts with these pieces, even recording a series of albums known as “Sonambient” music. An in-progress Catalogue Raisonné is being compiled by the HarryBertoia Foundation. When viewed in person, this work exhibits slightly darker coloration than pictured in the catalogue illustration. A beautiful concert of Harry Bertoia’s work. HARRY BERTOIA. Harry Bertoia gold plated bronze Sonambient sculpture, diagonal double tonal, circa 1965. But set that aside--Bertoia was a rare talent, making music in a most unique manner, and these recordings--offered here in mini-LP format--wouldn't work any other way. $650,000 Asking Price. That’s why he referred to it as Sonambient — it’s a sound environment.” Harry admitted that the term was “rather clumsy” and once insisted that “labeling it will not change its nature. Available for sale from Louis Stern Fine Arts, Harry Bertoia, Sonambient (1978-1979), Steel with bronze base, 52 × 11 3/4 × 11 3/4 in Nova 2. In 1974 Bertoia was commissioned to design a work for the plaza of the Standard Oil Building of Chicago. “I’ve done meditations to it, and it takes you way out there. He crafted scores of sound sculptures in varied shapes and sizes, each so tonally distinct that he likened playing a new one to “hearing the cry of a newborn baby.” He remodeled his barn to house these pieces, played them for visitors and recorded them for self-released albums that became legendary in the world of experimental sound art. 2 x 30.4 x 30.4 cm) Condition Report. HARRY BERTOIA. 85 x 12 x 12 in. circa 1977 Inconel, brass. Celia Bertoia playing the Sonambient Barn collection @sothebys this December. Eerie, unearthly yet earthy, organic, joyous and literally vibrant pieces that show Harry was way, way ahead of the pack and did it best- surely now is the time for re-evaluation of the pioneers of soundscapes and experimental ambience (did Bertoia coin 'ambient' before Eno?) “You couldn’t be thinking about what’s for dinner or whatever. Música: CDs y vinilos. He never made the same piece twice, always seeking a different or richer sound with varying rods or metals. “He was very connected with nature and its energies, and he found a way to bundle these wires and let gravity form their shape.”, “The idea is to see how close I can get to what appears to be another farther reality or a reality which has not yet come within my sense,” Harry once explained. Bertoia learned welding at Santa Monica City College in California in the late 1940s, and immediately began to experiment in his personal evening time. 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