{"product_id":"joseph-beuys-beuys-laughing-by-joseph-beuys-9783958299610","title":"Joseph Beuys: Beuys Laughing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn early 1974, Joseph Beuys, Klaus Staeck, and Gerhard Steidl sat in a Boeing 747 from New York to Düsseldorf, returning home after Beuys' American tour. The trip had been a controversial success, and its every stage was carefully documented by Staeck and Steidl in videos, photographs, and audio—their trusty Sony TC-50 cassette recorder was always at Beuys' side during his lectures, conferences, and workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo relieve the boredom of the flight, the three listened to some of the recordings, and Beuys noticed, surprisedly, just how much he laughed: why not edit this laughter into a single, surreal track?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSteidl subsequently gave the original tapes to the young sound engineer Siegfried Schäfer, who set to work reducing bass and background noise, and created a final edit of 20 minutes. Steidl played this master to a delighted Beuys, who decided to issue it as an audio tape edition, in the mould of his 1969 recording \u003cem\u003eJa, Ja, Ja, Ja, Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee, Nee, Nee\u003c\/em\u003e (Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, No, No, No, No, No).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet the master tape of \u003cem\u003eBeuys Laughing\u003c\/em\u003e was then sadly lost for a period of 46 years, only to resurface in 2020. Now, re-mastered and digitised by Schäfer and Pauler Acoustics, it is finally available to the public, in a limited-edition vinyl EP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI like America and America likes me.\u003c\/em\u003e - Joseph Beuys\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with Edition Staeck, Heidelberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461101797612,"sku":"9783958299610","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958299610-joseph-beuys-beuys-laughing.jpg?v=1774958133","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/joseph-beuys-beuys-laughing-by-joseph-beuys-9783958299610","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}