[Cassette liner]: Ulises Carrión: Trios & Boleros

Audiocassette tape, printed labels on side A & B, housed in a plastic case. Orig. red paper pictorial liner. Amsterdam: Time Based Arts, 1984.


Rare audiocassette of a Carrión sound work; unrecorded by WorldCat. It was originally recorded in June 1983, and then issued through Time Based Arts the following year.


"Trios & Boleros (1983) was produced as a part of a series by a number of artists, writers and composers. The Dutch public broadcasting company VPRO allocated broadcast time to individual, unrelated productions under the umbrella title of 'Art on the Radio, the Radio as Art'. No mathematical text analysis here: Ulises narrates the history of the bolero, defining the classic form, identifying the origins and greatest interpreters. He notes the impact of Cuban and Caribbean music on the genre...


"The lecture is delivered against the musical background provided by these artists whose music filled his home...The program closes with the lyrics 'Caminemos, tal vez veremos después (Walk on, maybe we'll meet again).'"-Martha Hawley, "Jacaranda Ulises Carrión and Sound" in Martha Hellion, ed., Ulises Carrión: ¿Mundos personales o estrategias culturales? (2003), p. 89.


Near fine; one of the cassette labels is partially coming loose.


❧ G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don't read. (2016), pp. 128 & 141.