(visual) artists making music

L

labrat

hot on the heels of love
http://www.coldbacon.com/art/kaialthoff-paintings.html

Kai Althoff is a great painter but his music (as Workshop ) is a little hit and miss.

Destroy All Monsters was formed by Mike Kelly & Jim Shaw.
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Raymond Pettibon does "cartoons" and has been known to make music.
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grosun

Guest
As far as I recall, all the core Raster Noton crew (alva noto etc) were/are all graphic designers. A lot of stuff they've done has crossed over the sound/visual divide, & they've obv. paid a lot of attention to the way their music is packaged too.
 
Leo

Leo

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sam prekop (the sea and cake) is a painter.
john lurie is a painter (current show at ps1)
monte cazazza does/did performance art and released a few records.
gary panter released some singles.
dan graham?
mike kelley/jim shaw?
 
A

anti_theory

New member
stephen o'malley of sunn o)))/khanate has overseen the graphic design of many many albums. as a side note, i think i read somewhere that he did an ad for the da vinci code movie haha.

kim hiorthoy is an electronic musician and graphic designer.
 
X

xero

was minusone
glenister said:
- Mark Leckey
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quite liked his sound system installations and a film installation I saw of his at the whitechapel

really liked the film 'fiorucci made me hardcore'

haven't heard any straight up audio from him tho - any good?
 
N

nicnic

SlowMo
YES!
Theres a lot of bands/projects around Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Paul Mc Carthy, Jim Shaw and the rest of the click! (Pettibon did an LP with his own artwork on the cover)

JM Basquiat played in some kind of experimental hip-hop band: Grey.

Martin Kipenberger did an incredible reprise album as part of his visual art research...
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Sorry for bumping up an ancient thread here, but I went to see Jeffrey Lewis last night in Durham and was really blown away. He's a really great lyricist, gets tied in with all the stupidly titled 'anti-folk' scene stuff but he really stands out for me.

Anyway, he's also a good comic artist in the underground Comix vein and sings songs along with these funny little flip-chart narratives. There's tons of good stuff on Youtube here;

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jeffrey+lewis+&search=Search

My personal faves...


The Legend of The Fall'

'The history of Rough Trade'

This hilarious Nirvana tribute

and best of all, The Complete history of punk rock




Did the piece you done for FACT ever get finished Simon?
 
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Z

zhao

there are no accidents
pretty cool work martin. i miss doing print stuff... the excitement of getting a box from the printers and opening it up :rolleyes:
 
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