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The Window Gallery presents the work of contemporary makers of unusual and newly invented musical instruments, including emerging artists as well as recognized pioneers. The emphasis is on originality in concept and design, recognizing the seminal role of the search for new sounds in the expansion of musical horizons. Equally essential to the exhibits are […]
New American Gamelan Instruments by Daniel Schmidt
Daniel Schmidt has built the instruments displayed in this installation over the last five years with the help of students and alumni from Mills College. The bonang (the aluminum discs that look like flying saucers) and the slenthem (the lower range metallophone with a soft attack and long sustain) have been built in the last […]
Visual Harmony: Contemporary Tuning Graphics
Most music in the western world uses a particular tuning system known as 12-Tone Equal Temperament. Over the last 200 years and more, this system has proven effective and extremely practical. But infinitely many other tuning systems are possible, and the argument can be made that some other systems reflect more naturally the way our […]
Images from an Unseen World
the CymaGlyphs of John Stuart Reid The Cymascope is a new type of scientific instrument that makes sound visible by converting vibrations of sound to vibrations in water. The resulting images are both scientifically intriguing and artistically beautiful, leaving a lasting impression of an unseen world. John Stuart Reid (b. 1948) is an English […]
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Instruments from the Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley collections
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 7, 6 – 8 PM Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley began their decades-long friendship at Mills College in the late 1970s. Since then, Kronos has commissioned 28 works from Riley, more than from any other composer in the group’s history. This exhibit offers a peek into the sound worlds composer and […]
Felt Has Feelings by Bryan Day
Reception & Artist Talk: Saturday, January 10, 6-8 PM Bryan Day is a improviser, instrument inventor, illustrator and installation artist based in Richmond, CA. His work involves combining elements of the natural and man-made world using field recordings, custom audio generation software and homemade instruments. Day?s work explores the parallels between the patterns and systems […]
Instruments by Dan Gottwald
Reception & Artist Talk: Monday, December 22, 6-8 PM [one_third] [/one_third] [one_third] [/one_third] [one_third_last] [/one_third_last] Dan Gottwald is a sculptor, instrument builder, video/installation/performance artist and composer. His work focuses largely on the tactile and the sonic as temporary events. Gottwald’s work has been shown and performed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico as well […]
Skatchboxes and Skatchplates by Tom Nunn
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 2: 6-8 PM [one_third] [/one_third] [one_third] [/one_third] [one_third_last] [/one_third_last] Photos by David Michalak Tom Nunn will be exhibiting a number of Skatchboxes and Skatchplates. The Skatchboxes here are part of a series of painted Skatchboxes called “Paintboxes,” created between April 2013 and February 2014. The Skatchboxes are made of cardboard boxes […]
Of Land and Sea: Natural-Object Instruments by Cheryl E. Leonard
Cheryl Leonard in performance and selected instruments, from opening reception. Photos by Michael Zelner. (Complete Set) When I first began investigating the musical potential of natural objects I simply duct-taped microphones to rocks, shells, bones, wood, pinecones, and leaves, and attempted to rub, tap, bow, brush, and tickle new sounds out of them. I soon […]