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Thrash softly from afar – SFMOMA

In the early 1980s, the San Francisco Bay Area became one of the epicenters of thrash (metal), an underground music subgenre that grew into a worldwide musical form and youth culture. The circulation of demo tapes and, later, albums, helped what was called the most aggressive and fastest music genre of the moment reach the far corners of the world, taking advantage of the sounds’ easy ability to leak across any type of obstacle or border.

https://cevdeterek.com/2019/10/26/thrash-softly-from-afar-sfmoma/#more-2676

- thrash metal leaking into modern art installations...

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a sound warp that dwells in looping time :

“In “Bergama Stereo”, an architectural installation with sound, the Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek references the form, the historically attributed function and the ongoing reception of the Pergamon altar, now located in Berlin, and creates a new interpretation of the famous Hellenistic edifice.

Hopefully the Pergamon altar gets back to it’s original place, and then bergama stereo is installed in a place near to it for richer experience...