MUSICsCULpTURE (2) StoneHarp from/in Switzerland to the U.S.A.

Short before I moved to the United States of America, I gave StoneHarp #2 (RIVEO) to my friend Emil Bosshardt who lived in Zürich-Höngg (Wartauweg 19) for his garden space on ground level.

Another StoneHarp (made with painted brick stones) TRICOLOR, constructed - spring 1995, in the studio Kirchberg SG, Switzerland, though extremely interesting and colorful, was too unwieldy to transport and had to be dismantled - fall 1995.

During the Christmas season, I played for the visitors of the Holiday Art Show in the Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs. Other music could be heard as well - flute music. Grandmother Flute Player was playing on American-Indian flutes for the visitors of this exhibition. I had always wished someone would play the flute to accompany the sounds of the StoneHarps.
There was a lot I could learn from Grandmother Flute Player, a professor emeritus of music, for example, ostinato, drone, echo.

February of 1997, Elizabeth Nichols played the Coyote Old Man Cedar and Walnut Flute, accompanying the sounds of my StoneHarps. The StoneHarps NUFENEN and COLOROSA were the main attraction of my one-man-show in the Business of Art Center in Manitou Springs.

KCME-FM Radio 88.7 MHz April 19th 1997, 5:30 p.m. by David Sckolnik :::
Loeffler’s bizarre musical sculpture, “Colorosa”, defies any kind of analysis- it just is- and perhaps this is why it was passed up by the jury. Loeffler did receive mention for his collaboration with Marica Hefti- “Mitered Crucifix” 2 and “Nativity on the Range” 3 - a successful watercolor recasting of the story of Christ into the Wild West.

PS: Nobody awarded me the title of "Installation Art Sculptor" - no school, no university. I did not take an apprenticeship in "Installation Art" nor enroll in classes, but I am sure there are books and catalogs that explain the term "Installation Art." I am very certain that there are art experts who know what "Installation Art" is.
There are experts for everything; they know exactly what is what, that is, HOW something is supposed to be in order to be THAT. My problem is that I have neither the time nor the desire to care what art critics think.... What? Instead of giving theoretical explanations I'd rather answer with some stories as here at SWISS ROOTS, and pictures.

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