Description
Forma Libera / Alga Marghen, Italy
Edition of 300 copies with 13-page booklet
“In 1969, while American minimalism was consolidating into its most recognizable forms, Charlemagne Palestinewas conducting solitary experiments with oscillators and sine waves that only now reveal their visionary scope. This was the New York of lofts and abandoned industrial spaces, of artists pushing sound toward its physical limits – a city where the boundaries between music, performance art, and bodily endurance were dissolving. “Battling the Invisible” unearths the two most radical electronic studies from that crucial year, paired with blissful 1972 Bösendorfer sessions – illuminating the passage from pure electronics to the keyboard as an instrument of prolonged ecstasy…”
