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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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In partnership with Thingamajigs. Presenting Bay Area instrument inventors’ collaborations with a force of nature, Aeolian Day is a recurring festival in Oakland, CA, mounted by Thingamajigs. Aeolian Day exhibits solo works and installations created with local OUSD schoolchildren. The event fosters the creative interplay of art, music, and science through innovative sound sculptures. […]
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Join us on October 18 at 6pm for a discussion of this menagerie of instruments, compositions, and other audio experiments that explore the myriad musical uses of magnetic tape in the 21st century. Watch the broadcast: A menagerie of instruments, compositions, and other audio experiments that explore the myriad musical uses of magnetic tape […]
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The Center for New Music hosted a reception for the exhibit featuring a performance by Richard Marriott and a discussion between gallery curator Bart Hopkin and Norman Tuck About Sound Pieces Sound is created by vibration. In the works chosen for exhibition at the Center for New Music listening as the various pieces vibrate […]
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