{"title":"Thurston Moore","description":"\u003cp\u003eThurston Moore (b. 1958) is an American musician, poet, and artist, best known as a founding member and guitarist of Sonic Youth. His practice extends beyond music into publishing, poetry, and visual art, with a sustained engagement with the downtown New York scene that connected experimental music, No Wave, and the visual art world from the early 1980s onwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoore has collaborated extensively with visual artists, curators, and writers, and has been involved in numerous artist-led publishing projects. His participation in Mike Kelley's \u003cem\u003ePlato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile\u003c\/em\u003e, recorded live at Artists Space, New York, in 1986, is among the most documented intersections of his practice with the contemporary art world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications and recordings gathered here document Moore's involvement in art-adjacent projects and collaborations. Original and period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mike-kelley-platos-cave-rothkos-chapel-lincolns-profile-sonic-youth-peristaltic-airwaves-2012","title":"Mike Kelley — Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile (with Sonic Youth) \/ The Peristaltic Airwaves, Compound Annex, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e2-CD set in jewel case with booklet. 14 × 12 cm. Published by Compound Annex Records, Los Angeles, 2012. Compound #38, #39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: New old stock. Factory sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn increasingly uncommon document of Mike Kelley's sound and performance practice, issued shortly after the artist's death in January 2012. While not rare in the strict bibliographic sense, copies appear only intermittently on the secondary market and are collected by those interested in the intersections of contemporary art, performance, experimental music, and Sonic Youth-related material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc One: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile [55:36]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded live at Artists Space, New York, December 5, 1986. With Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley), Molly Cleator, and Adam Rudolph on didgeridoo. Assisted by Tony Oursler, Mary Jones, and Jennifer Bolande. Recorded by Carole Parkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc Two: The Peristaltic Airwaves [38:19]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformed live on KPFK Radio, September 30, 1986. With Jack Skelley and Nic Greene, guitars; Dave Childs, drums; Nancy Evans, voice and horn. Co-produced by High Performance Magazine and Jacki Apple for Soundings on KPFK Pacifica Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth works were previously available only in limited cassette form before being digitally remastered and reissued by Compound Annex in 2012. The title connects several recurring concerns in Kelley's practice — philosophy, psychology, popular culture, mythology, and institutional critique — while the involvement of Sonic Youth places the recording within the fertile overlap between the downtown New York art and experimental music scenes of the mid-1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare object-register, the set operates as both artwork and record. Not merely a music release, it functions as retained evidence of a performance that otherwise survives only in fragments. The performance is gone; the recording remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Carefully packed and shipped boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Compound Annex Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624873025874,"sku":"KELLEY-COMPOUNDANNEX-PC-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike._Plato_s_Cave_Rothko_s_Chapel_Lincoln_s_Profile_with_Sonic_Youth_The_Peristaltic_Airwaves._2012.jpg?v=1780377005"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/thurston-moore.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}