Mike Kelley
Yummy Puffy Mommy Yoni
"Mike Kelley performs ethereal melodies on the Alesis QS6.1 electric keyboard. Trip the light fantastic to 26 tracks including "Outer Rink Magnifique", "Vanginus", "Curling Flakes in Eternal Haze" and "Panting Mancini"."
Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln' s Profile
This two cd set includes remastered recordings of Kelley's 55 minute performance poem "Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile" at Artists Space, New York on dec. 5th, 1985 and the peristaltic airwaves, a live performance that aired on kpfk radio, Los Angeles on september 30th, 1986. The only existing audio documentation of Mike Kelley's groundbreaking performance work. plato's cave rothko's chapel, lincoln's profile in kelley's words was the "longest and most elaborate" of the texts he…
Profondeurs Vertes
Profondeurs Vertes is the title of a three-channel video installation produced by Mike Kelley for the louvre, paris, in 2006. the music on this cd functions as the soundtrack music for the three videos. Profondeur vertes begins with a traditional sea chanty complete with waves, creaking timbers, and seagulls, moving into an airy romantic-era piano and harp piece based on Charles Tomlinson griffes' veil of dreams which then transitions into an orchestral rendition of the shark attack from John Si…
Kandor 10
Original motion picture soundtrack for videos originally presented at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California in 2011. Moody evocations of exotic and decrepit alien cultures. Music by Mike Kelley. Produced by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel."
Vice Anglais
Written in response to: robert m. cooper's lost on both sides, dante; gabriel rossetti: critic and poet. written by mike kelley. produced by mike kelley and scott benzel. music by scott benzel.
Duets: 1975-1976
A 2-CD collection of Shaw/Kelley Duets from the early Destroy All Monsters period. Primarily featuring Shaw on guitar and Kelley on percussion, these extended improvisations also incorporate tape loops, tape collage, and primitive electronics. (Original Release Date: 2011)
Studio C
This 2CD pair features performances in Tokyo in 1996. Sod and Sodie Sock documents a performance at the P-House Gallery, where the three musicians performed together and separately. The action extended beyond the gallery, into the street in front, and down the block to a local hair salon. Recordings documenting the simultaneous activities of Kelley, McCarthy, and Violent Onsen Geisha have been combined to allow the listener to experience the entire group of, spatially separated, performances at …
Day Is Done
Day Is Done, a major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is a feature-length musical. It enunciates a career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events through the re-staging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks. Their subjects are the kinds of institutionalized entertainments practiced within the American e…