Studio visit

Our class was fortunate to be able to go over to Marx's studio a few days ago and play with some of his sound sculptures and his flurries.

If you want to see more pictures of the sound sculptures, check out this link

Sound Sculptures (there are some pictures of his Stardust on this page).

Last but certainly not least, here is a picture of the man himself:

and this is what he has to say:

It was a boring Saturday
at the Mills College
sculpture studio
in California.
No Plans for the day.
I found a door knob on the table
and welded some wires on one end
just for the fun of it.
I place a knob to my ear
and strummed the wire
on the opposite end

WOW

I got another door knob
welded some wire on it also
and connected the two door knobs
with a metal wire which went over
my head so the knobs
were against my ear.

I invented a manual Walkman.

Found in the Marxhausen gallery--poem used in one of his shows.

- Amber Konz

These comments were posted on the original blog site:Fantastic pictures. The sound sculptures are so awesome, I wish I had some of my own to play around with, and the flurries are just as entertaining. It's good to see the blog up and moving along, and it's looking fantastic. And now to bookmark it.

October 21, 2009 | Steven Odom

I saw this post on Gizmodo and immediately thought of Marxhausen http://gizmodo.com/5435603/a-worse-slinky

Thank you for the Flurry picture; I guess my memory is accurate.

December 28, 2009 | Eliot

Comments on the original post

These are two comments left on the post "Studio Visit" when the blog was on the original server.

Fantastic pictures. The sound sculptures are so awesome, I wish I had some of my own to play around with, and the flurries are just as entertaining. It's good to see the blog up and moving along, and it's looking fantastic. And now to bookmark it.

October 21, 2009 | Steven Odom

I saw this post on Gizmodo and immediately thought of Marxhausen http://gizmodo.com/5435603/a-worse-slinky

Thank you for the Flurry picture; I guess my memory is accurate.

December 28, 2009 | Eliot

Reinhold Peiper Marxhausen

This is the first post of many! That being so, here is what Marxy has to say about his name:

"Words are information, not enlightenment.
We can't believe in words but language. The world needs to have labels on its objects, otherwise we cannot deal with it.

People have names, some even numbers, but the names we have have nothing to do with us as a person. Our nicknames may say more about us as a person. When our parents first looked at us at birth, no one said, 'He looks like a Paul or a Mary'. The name in many cases was arbitrary. In some cases we became our name.

I did not like my name as a child mostly because I never met anyone who had a name quite like it. Even today, my ears perk up when I hear the name Reinhold. Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen is a name almost too long to bear.

Seldom did I identify what the 'P' stood for in my middle name. If I was really pushed, I would say it was Peter.

Reinhold Pieper was a professor my father had at the seminary and I inherited a bronze plaque with his image.

At the age of 25 while attending Valpo University, my roommates discovered my full name and proceeded to laugh alot and make fun of it. They called me 'Peeps'. Of course it was embarrassing at first--then it became interesting. I had an interesting name. No one had a name like Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen. It was all mine. Maybe someday I would be able to live up to it and be as interesting as my name. I like it. I proudly sign the whole name whenever I can."

-Found written on a piece of paper in a stack of notes in the archive.

Pictures of his work to come soon!

- Amber Konz