Domestos wrote: Mon Oct 20, 2025 7:06 pm
Book looks great, would love it on my coffee table. But I expect it’ll have random typos and weird nonsensical glitches like you turn over a page and it’ll won’t have been printed properly.
You would hope that Thames & Hudson has a good quality control dept with professional proof-readers, so this won't happen. I expect this will be a 100% spot-on production with no errors in the book.
In terms of the touring exhibition, this is interesting. I think it risks being really, really dull unless it is curated in a dynamic way. To have a series of synths just sitting there on display won't be in any way interesting, to a non-fan or indeed a fan of electronic music. I would expect:
- Sounds at various points to be heard through headphones
- Opportunity to fiddle with a VCS3 and make your own white noise
- The LAG Lumineux Circular Clavier to be a centre piece, and exhibition visitors can stand and be photo'd and video'd playing the thing - Instagram content!
- The LAG Insecte available to wear and pose with - likewise, this will make for good clicks on social media and all museums want this these days
- Too much to ask to have a working laser harp to play around on?
I understand the Lumineux Circular is no longer in JMJ's collection and is in private ownership. It absolutely needs to be loaned as part of the show.
JMJ has said in interviews many times (and rightly so) that electronic instruments were made for the studio or the laboratory and are in no way sexy or designed for live performance, like the electric guitar. So he worked with amazing inventors and engineers to create instruments and machines that bring electronic music alive for an audience. That, more than anything, is his legacy in terms of the machines and I would hope the exhibition is designed with this in mind.
