dumdum SCORE chosen by Bill Furlong for Audio Arts Magazine

Audio Arts  was a British sound magazine published on audio cassettes documenting contemporary artistic activity via artist or curator interviews, sound performances or sound art by artists.

dumdum Score's original version of 'Heads of tulips' was featured in Volume 8 #3 alongside Andy Warhol The magazine has since been digitised and is available via The Tate gallery archive.

Explore and listen to the innovative audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1972 at The Tate website

Furlong, a sculptor, and Barry Barker, a gallerist, began publishing Audio Arts in 1973. Its run lasted until, astonishingly, 2006, by which time its archives had come to 25 volumes of four issues each. Its list of subscribers included the formidable Tate, such fans that they actually acquired the magazine's master tapes, digitized them, and made them all publicly available on their web site. No longer must you seek out nth-generation duplicated analog cassettes and dig out your Walkman; now you can simply stream on your media player of choice every issue from January 1973, "four cassettes with contributions from Caroline Tisdall, Noam Chomsky, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats," to January 2006, which caps everything off with contributions by Gilbert & George and Jake and Dinos Chapman. Other notable artistic presences include Marcel Duchamp in Volume 2, Philip Glass in Volume 6, and Andy Warhol in Volume 8. Helpfully, Tate has also put together a section with tools to explore Audio Arts' highlights — something more than a few modern-day podcasts could no doubt use.


Heads of Tulips was a free improvisation played on home made stringed instruments and recorded to tape in a single take. The improvised one take vocals where then added to with a second-and third harmony . 4 tracks in total.

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