Cory Arcangel performs Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum, his accompaniment to the classic Bruce Springsteen album, during Performa 07 in New York.

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The Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Glockenspiel Addendum ‎(12", Ltd).

Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is a Brooklyn, New York post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known.

Cory Arcangel has created an album of glockenspiel parts for all the songs on Born to Run - the ones that lack them in the original, that is. Listeners can either spend happy hours syncing this album to Springsteen’s original opus, or just listen to it on its own. I chose the latter and was stunned by its sparse counterpoint to the sprawling splendor of its memorable inspiration. The song also has a thrilling moment of anticipation that is broken by Bruce spitting out the line: 1-2-3-. he highways jam with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Somehow, The Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Glockenspiel Addendum inhabits that exact space and uses it as a portal to transport an unsuspecting listener to another realm. With apologies to John Cage, I must relate that whole tracks on the album are completely blank.

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For a 2008 piece, The Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum, Mr. Arcangel taught himself to play the glockenspiel, then re-recorded Mr. Springsteen’s Born to Run LP onto vinyl, adding an original glockenspiel track to songs on the album that didn’t already include the instrument. His reprogrammed computer games bear the imprint of so-called appropriation artists, like Richard Prince and Jack Goldstein. And his do-it-yourself, jerry-built sensibility owes a debt to punk.

Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is a Brooklyn, New York artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known. Arcangel often uses the artistic strategy of appropriation, creatively re-using existing materials such as dancing stands,Whitney Museum. The Whitney to Present Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools" (Press Release). In addition to the LP, Arcangel has also performed the piece live.

from The Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Glockenspiel Addendum 12" Moved by the glockenspiel arrangements that flare across Bruce’s master panorama, Brooklyn media artist and man-about-town Cory Arcangel decided that he would write his own glockenspiel parts to fit all of the songs on Born to Run that don’t already feature that instrument. This is the kind of brazen scheme that most folks dream up over bong-hits only to sober up and abandon. But Corey has actually done it, and his tinkling all over the Boss comes off like a heartfelt expression of affection rather than a pomo smirkfest

Arcangel doesn't work entirely with videogames. He's been making video art since he was a teenager and also has several music projects on the go, including the rather amusing Bruce Springsteen Born to Run Glockenspiel Addendum, a version of the album played entirely on, yes, the glockenspiel. He actually studied classical guitar at the Oberlin Conservatory and tells me he only took programming as a minor subject because he knew it would make him more employable – "classical guitar and knowledge about the second Viennese school of composition was not going to get me a jo.