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    Mar 18, 2021 2 minutes
    JOHN LEWIS

    WALTERSMETAK

    Smetak/Interregno (reissues, 1974, 1980) BUH

    7/10

    Brazilian avant-gardist’s curious sonic experiments

    WALTER SMETAK is one of those curious, genre-fluid figures who seem unique to Brazil: a conceptual artist and avant-garde musician, a sculptor and a scientist, at once bafflingly highbrow and childishly lowbrow. Born in

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