Adolfo Schlosser was born in Leitersdorf, a very small village in eastern Styria in 1939 and was an Austrian painter, sculptor, and poet. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he lived in Iceland for four years to devote himself to painting. During this time, he also worked in deep-sea fishing. The intense experience of northern nature had a strong influence on his artistic development. His artistic work in general was shaped by his intense contact with nature.

In 1967, he moved to Spain, where he lived and worked until his death in December 2004. Absurdly, he was a highly respected and well-known artist in Spain and received the National Prize for the Plastic Arts in 1991, while remaining unknown in Austria. In his later sculptural works, he mostly used natural materials such as stone, clay, wood, or straw, often creating unusual combinations of them.

In the 1970s, Adolfo Schlosser began building instruments from natural materials. His companion and friend Chiqui April, director of the Buades Gallery, described that the music project began with the sculpture “Piedra Cosida”, a stone which Adolfo covered with the skin of a goat. It reminded Adolfo of a parachute and he wanted to use the stone to perform a flying movement. They then discovered that the stone and its skin produced a sound.

Adolfo Schlosser was the unvle of Graz-based musician Robert Lepenik. Robert found and re-edited the old recordings of his uncle and released them for the first time online at the netlabel “bureau le fou”.

This is an excerpt of Adolfo’s recordings. More:

https://bureaulefou.org/music-in-piamonte-street-ii/#more