Basic Music
- Date of creation : 1974
- Country : Switzerland
- Duration : 00:12:35
- Technical characteristics : Sound, Colour
- Artist - Author : Muriel Olesen
Description
Series of 3 videos: Ruber Bland, Sweater Sweeter Dog and Seriously Sophisticated Greetings
"In Ruber Band, the artist sings while holding colored rubber bands in front of her mouth, which she plucks with her teeth, like guitar strings, then stretches until they break. Each color of rubber band corresponds to a vowel and a note. In Sweater Sweeter Dog, the camera shoots a very close-up of Muriel Olesen's sweater with little dogs embroidered on it, which wiggle as the artist titles on her garment, "barking" in rhythm with the five vowels of the alphabet and in Seriously Sophisticated Greetings a slow zoom out shows the artist's face in heavily saturated colors, she slowly waves her hand from right to left in front of her, successively shifting from laughter to severity".
(Source, website, FMAC Geneva Municipal Contemporary Art Fund)
- Type : single-channel
- Date of event and/or date of diffusion : 26 Aug 1980 - 28 Sep 1980 01 Jan 1974 10 Feb 1976 - 22 Feb 1976
- Format : 3/4” U-matic