7x7 Book and Vinyl Launch, 2023
Librarie 7L, Paris, France
Cocktail receptions, concerts, a reading and a conversation hosted by Librairie 7L to discover the seven interactive sound sculptures 7x7, and, as a special preview, the double vinyl book dedicated to 7x7 by the Tricatel label. Seven new paintings by Jean Pierre Müller were also shown and musical performances specially conceived for the occasion by Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas), accompanied by Catastrophe and Bertrand Burgalat, among others.
Seven notes in the scale, seven days in the week, seven colors in the rainbow, seven wonders of the world, seven virtues and seven sins, seven ages of life, seven samurai, seven dwarfs for Snow White… Under the sign of 7, Belgian artist Jean Pierre Müller, in close collaboration with seven music legends (Robert Wyatt, Archie Shepp, Sean O’Hagan, Mulatu Astatke, Kassin, Nile Rodgers, Terry Riley), has conceived a magical project combining visual and sound compositions, in all senses and meanings.
In the summer of 2012, 7×7 was first presented to the public in its entirety at Edinburgh’s Summerhall, the start of a series of high-profile exhibitions and shows that have taken 7×7 from New York to Cannes. Ten years later, Jean Pierre and Tricatel would like to dream again with you, this time of a physical object celebrating 7×7 and offering the general public the opportunity to own a piece of the 7 colors dream.
This art and music object is a Gatefold double-vinyl, comprising two white vinyl records in printed inner sleeves and a 64-page booklet in the center, like a book.
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