Sowohl Futurismus als auch Dadaismus bedienten sich der Synthese aus Sound und bildender Kunst, um zu einem Ergebnis zu kommen, das als einzigartige Erfahrung größer als die Summe seiner einzelnen Teile war.

Diese Idee wurde von den Fluxus und Minimalismus Bewegungen weitergeführt. ROLF JULIUS, geboren 1939 in Wilhelmshaven, wurde von diesen Bewegungen beeinflusst, als er in Bremen und Berlin Kunst studierte.

Jahre später, nachdem er sich mit den Musikstücken von Künstlern wie Morton Feldman, John Cage und La Monte Young beschäftigt hatte, begann auch JULIUS, sein Augenmerk auf die Beziehung zwischen Sounds, Objekten und der Umwelt zu legen.

Seine Pionierarbeit war "Dike Line" von 1979, das visuelle Bilder mit strukturstarken Tönen verband.

Seit den frühen 80ern nennt JULIUS seine Arbeit "Small Music" und erhielt internationale Anerkennung von denen, die schon von jeher den Ursprung von Sound und Vision in Frage stellen.

"Music For The Ears" ist der erste Teil einer Serie von "Small Music" Veröffentlichungen von ROLF JULIUS.

Zwei lange Tracks, die sich sanft umgarnen, erforschen die Möglichkeiten der räumlischen Erfahrung."For the past 30 years, Julius's minimal pieces, which have made him one of the leading exponenents of comtempoary sound art, have been teasing out connections between sound and visuals" THE WIRE Genre: Instrumental / Experimental / Ambient.

Futurism and Dadaism both made use of the synthesis of audio and visual arts to create a singular experience greater than the sum of its parts.

This idea was further advanced by the Fluxus and Minimalism movements. Born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Rolf Julius was profoundly influenced and inspired by these movements while he studied art in Bremen and Berlin.

Years later, after immersing himself in musical works by artists like Morton Feldman, John Cage, and La Monte Young, Julius began to shift his focus from visual art to the synthesis of sound and visual art and nature, exploring the relationships between sounds and objects and environments.

Julius soon discovered how sounds can influence vision, creating simple tones to be presented in conjunction with his early photographic work.

Such experiments culminated in the creation of his pioneering work "Dike Line" (1979), which combined visual images with texture-inducing tones.

This piece was presented at the ground breaking exhibition "F?r Augen Und Ohren" in 1980.

Mythical in scope, this was the first major European exhibition attempted to map international research by artists exploring relations between sound and visual art, bringing together work by John Cage, Luigi Russolo, Nam June Paik, Joe Jones, Bill Fontana, Milan Knizak, Harry Bertoia, David Tudor and Rolf Julius.

Over the next 30 years Julius went on to create some of the most meaningful and moving works in the grey area between music and art, between sound and silence.

Alongside Takehisa Kosugi, Terry Fox, and Akio Suzuki, he has emerged as one of the most important and influential sound artists of our time.

Since the early 1980's Julius has referred to his compositions as Small Music, receiving international acclaim from those in the fields of contemporary art and music for calling the origins of sound and vision into question.

Western Vinyl is proud to release "Music for the Ears" the first in a series of Small Music releases by Rolf Julius.

With a goal of creating solitary sound environments, the Small Music series will culminate into a boxed edition of seminal works by this master sound artist.

"Music for the Ears" is comprised of two long tracks of gently weaving tones exploring the possibilities of spatial experience.

RIYL: Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz, Brian Eno, John Cage, Mountains, Akio Suzuki. "For the past 30 years, Julius's minimal pieces, which have made him one of the leading exponenents of comtempoary sound art, have been teasing out connections between sound and visuals" THE WIRE