SPEED OF SILENCE is a chronicle in pictures and sounds of the passing of the world as we move through it. Photographs in the show and book derive from a 13,000-mile road trip through 37 of the United States undertaken in fall 2020, in the depths of the Covid pandemic. Empty towns and landscapes full […]
Shape Studies
Shape Studies features suspended sculptural ceramic bells with a stunning sound. Made by Vancouver, Canada based interdisciplinary artist Roxanne Nesbitt, these pieces are crafted from porcelain and bone china clay. Nesbitt creates pieces that bloom with gradual physical transformations. These processes result in musical scales with incremental changes in timbre and pitch. Shape, colour, and texture are […]
Queering the Instrumentarium
The performing arts have a deep and significant footing in queerness and while performing arts spaces are not inherently queer, they are essentially other than ordinary and quite often fabulous. Music is a queer art, it has no gender, and arouses feelings beyond gender and relationship boundaries. Music is the drag our feelings wear when […]
Atrium Display: Artificial Scores for Live Music
The question of authorship is as old as ego. Most folk songs can live for generations quite happily without a named composer and are essentially immortal as long as someone remembers them; but when music doesn’t originate from composers, where does music come from? Music which does not originate from composers originates from musicians. The […]
Patterns of Convergence
Nathaniel Ober: Patterns of Convergence Nov 3-Dec 31 Reception at 6 Talk/demonstration at 7 Nathaniel Ober is an internationally known experimental digital artist who has a unique hybrid creative practice that spans installation, sculpture, sound, instrument building, digital prototyping and astrophysics. He engages audiences by sharing listening experiences from the natural world with processes of sonification. […]
ATRIUM DISPLAY: THE EVOLUTION OF SKATCH
Tom Nunn, the Evolution of Scatch Sept 3- October 30. Tom Nunn designed, built, and performed with original musical instruments from 1976 to 2022. His instruments use commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and were designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability, and nonlinearity. Bearing little or […]
The Harmonic Series Gamelan
The Harmonic Series Gamelan is a special project of Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective, directed by David Samas. Inspired by a Harrison/Colvig instrument which was used for constructing just tunings, the HSG is a collection of over 30 instruments created by 17 inventors, all tuned to the Schumann Cavity Resonance as a fundamental. The […]
Window Gallery: Orchestra Obscura
Orchestra Obscura is a collection of works that incorporates sensors, microcontrollers, and electronics to explore new ways of using movement and gesture in creating live electronic music. Sometimes the physical actions of the performer clearly map to the resulting sounds one hears, sometimes the connections are completely hidden, but more often they are partially obscured, […]
Grist from the Mills
The Window Gallery presents an exhibit of pieces from past and present professors at Mills. Featuring works from Chris Brown, Fred Frith, The Hub, Roscoe Mitchell, Maggi Payne, Laetitia Sonami, Wendy Reid, Daniel Schmidt. Join us for an online reception and discussion with the artists! More info here. […]
somewhere else by Aaron Soloway
somewhere else is meant to take you out of your current setting, out of your current moment, out of your current focus to somewhere else. It is designed to be experienced only from outside the gallery. Stand on the circle and your background will fade away as you hear the sounds from somewhere else. Join […]