BERTOIA, HARRY - No Date Tapes 2

"No Date Tapes 2 is the second official cassette release from Harry Bertoia's tape archive. These recordings were chosen from a small collection of tapes in Bertoia's archive missing recording dates. Packaged in metallic shell; produced on super-ferro tape for incredible analog sound; first printing of 100.Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, w