Lou Reed: Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of the Universe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0989186474 ISBN 13: 9780989186476

Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum, 2016

Synopsis

This volume documents the installation at the Cranbrook Art Museum of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio, a live ambisonic 3-D sound installation inspired by Reed’s controversial 1975 album Metal Machine Music. Reed worked with acoustic specialists to recreate the live experience.

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About the Author

Lou Reed s (b. 1942) most recent releases include Romanticism, a collection of photographs, and Lou Reed s Berlin, the Julian Schnabel-filmed record of a multi-media performance of Reed s iconic 1973 album. The guitarist and principal songwriter for The Velvet Underground, he has enjoyed a long and successful solo career. His book of photographs, New York, was published in 2008.

Raj Patel, former policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he's also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cranbrook Art Museum
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0989186474
• ISBN 13: 9780989186476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 132