Atrium Display: Skatchplatters by Tom Nunn and Sudhu Tewari Artist Statment Skatchplatters (12” diameter), Skatchwheels (22” diameter) and Giant Skatchwheels (33” diameter) are circular cardboard plates onto which are glued various “devices” arranged in a 32-segment array. The devices include thin dowel, coffee stirrer sticks, bronze brazing rod, metal washers and non-skid self-adhesive surface material. […]
Guillermo Galindo: Cyber-totemic Objects and Sonic Mediators
Cyber-totemic Objects and Sonic Mediators Artist Statement Around 2005 after I finished my orchestral work Trade Routes commissioned and premiered by the Oakland Symphony orchestra I started reimagining concepts behind the late 20th century music of composers such as John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz Stockhausen as well as being inspired by artists Tarsila do Amaral, Enrique Chagoya and Alejandro Jodorowsky, […]
Atrium Display, Roxanne Nesbitt: Symbiotic Instruments
Atrium Display, Roxanne Nesbitt: Symbiotic Instruments For my on-going project Symbiotic Instruments, I design and make sounding objects to expand the sound palette of traditional instruments. I have explored stretching strings over drums with percussive handmade bridges, and ceramic instruments played inside the grand piano. The ceramics alter the sound of the piano by muting […]
Atrium Display, Musicians Make: Comic Strips
Atrium Display, Musicians Make: Comic Strips Polymaths are often musicians and the talents and proclivities that make for great musicians quite often make for brilliant artists, engineers, mathematicians, activists, chefs, philosophers, poets, painters, cosmologists and gardeners. Society seeks to simplify and pigeonhole these geniuses and so too often their broader gifts are considered tangential rather […]
Johannes Bergmark: How Do You Invent Something?
Johannes Bergmark: How Do You Invent Something? Artist Statement Meeting Hal Rammel in Chicago in 1987 was the decisive moment for me to open my eyes for experimental musical instrument (EMI) building, through his beautiful and imaginative work, generous friendship and the collaborations that we did. He also let me know about the inspiring network of […]
Atrium Display: Graphic Scores/Spores by Alan Courtis
Atrium Display: Graphic Scores/Spores by Alan Courtis This exhibition shows for the first time in USA graphic scores by Argentine composer Alan Courtis. It consists in a selection of graphic and conceptual pieces employing diverse techniques and strategies helping to connect the graphic and sound universes. Some of these scores work defining precise interpretation […]
Fiction and Fables: Compositions Through Sonification
Fiction and Fables: Compositions Through Sonification Curated by Eliza Phelan-Harder Fiction and fables are a part of a long history of storytelling. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of learning, teaching, preservation of cultural histories or instilling moral values. Interpretation of tales are embedded through social practice […]
Atrium Display: Leonardo at 500; Homage and Excuse by Larnie Fox
Atrium Display: Leonardo at 500; Homage and Excuse by Larnie Fox Homage Leonardo da Vinci was an early holistic scientific thinker. He didn’t recognize the boundaries between art and science. He didn’t recognize the boundaries between scientific disciplines. Quite the contrary, he brought everything he knew to bear on every problem he dealt with […]
Atrium Display: Free Improvised Paintings of Live Improvised Music
Atrium Display: Free Improvised Paintings of Live Improvised Music by Ethan Cranke In April of 2018, Ethan came to the Center for New Music to paint the sounds of Gino Robair, Tom Dimuzio, Tim Perkis, and David Samas. Their ecstatic improvising was captured here in bold, gestural acrylics. Many people are familiar with the idea […]
Atrium Display: Hacked-Found-Repurposed Vol. 2
Atrium Display: Hacked-Found-Repurposed Curated by Bryan Day Hacked-Found-Repurposed Vol. 2 is an exhibition of upcycled sound art pieces and invented instruments. The pieces on display highlight an ad-hoc approach to instrument design, using found objects to create both utilitarian and conceptual sound-art objects. On display are works by Tore Boe, Tad Ermitano, Blake Hargreaves, Ellen Juhlin, Frank […]