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MUNGO THOMSON AND MICHAEL WEBSTER'S  C R I C K E T S
Published by LA><ART, Christoph Keller Editions, and JRP | Ringier
 

The artist's book Crickets is the musical score for Mungo Thomson's artwork Crickets. For it, the artist acquired the rights to a compilation of field recordings of crickets made in France, Cameroon, Senegal, Martinique, Borneo, Thailand, and Venezuela between the late 1960s and late 1990s. These recordings became the basis for an original score. The result is a dynamic composition that moves around a company of musicians and offers different instrumentation as the locations and species in the recordings change from track to track. Crickets was performed at the Ball of Artists in 2012 and on the High Line in New York City on in 2013.

In addition to the first available copies of Crickets, Mungo Thomson's signed, blind-debossed, letterpress print Crickets score experimental cluster track 14 limited to five copies published by LA><ART Editions will be available for sale at the event. The image features several measures of music developed for violins to play “atmosphere” on Crickets. We will also have copies of Mungo Thomson's recent hardbound Site Santa Fe catalogue Time People Money Crickets.