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A Painter, Sculptor and Musician
Recording Sound by Theodore Roszak combines painting and sculpture in a unique way. A three-dimensional plaster stage projects forward and backward from the canvas plane to a depth of about three inches. It's a miniaturized opera performed for the modern miracle of the phonograph. Roszak, an accomplished violinist, was so involved with music that he put musical references into many paintings. He must have loved the new electric phonographs introduced in the mid-1920s, which replaced the old hand-crank technology. For the first time the complex sounds of a full orchestra could be recorded with clarity.
In Recording Sound, Roszak encompasses the world of live performance within the horn of the gramophone. This archival photo shows that there used to be little painted wood singers on the stage. They were apparently too tempting to the touch, and they are missing today.
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