Light & Music Machine
Daniel W. Kuehn (Hamburg 1948), works and lives in Hamburg-Altona
Lot-No. 692
Around 1990. Brass, copper, LEDs, under acrylic glass. H. 47 cm, acrylic glass box: 49 x 16 x 16 cm. Inscription on reverse: LIGHT Machine NR 001/4 by DANIEL W. KUEHN. One of 4 copies. Extraordinary art object/playing clock/cigarette lighter with light effects, the music is played by means of an SD card via a loudspeaker with a Leslie effect, a light bulb lights a cigar/ cigarette. - Kuehn created a copy of the music-making cigarette lighter in 1700 working hours in 1990 for Leonard Bernstein, who was presented with the art object on the occasion of his contract with Deutsche Grammophon and, among other things, played his famous Candide aria. - Expertise: Photo fold-out with handwritten operating instructions - German artist, initially trained as a radio and television technician and with his kinetic works he moves at the interface between art and technology.
Daniel W. Kuehn, lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg-Altona: Light & Music Machine
Daniel W. Kuehn (Hamburg 1948), works and lives in Hamburg-Altona
Light & Music Machine
Lot-No. 692
Around 1990. Brass, copper, LEDs, under acrylic glass. H. 47 cm, acrylic glass box: 49 x 16 x 16 cm. Inscription on reverse: LIGHT Machine NR 001/4 by DANIEL W. KUEHN. One of 4 copies. Extraordinary art object/playing clock/cigarette lighter with light effects, the music is played by means of an SD card via a loudspeaker with a Leslie effect, a light bulb lights a cigar/ cigarette. - Kuehn created a copy of the music-making cigarette lighter in 1700 working hours in 1990 for Leonard Bernstein, who was presented with the art object on the occasion of his contract with Deutsche Grammophon and, among other things, played his famous Candide aria. - Expertise: Photo fold-out with handwritten operating instructions - German artist, initially trained as a radio and television technician and with his kinetic works he moves at the interface between art and technology.
