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 […]
Bells
Bells are as old as time, marking its stately passage with roots in ancient Asia, Europe and Africa over 4000 years ago. Casting bells is often a ritual affair, whether in clay, crystal or bronze; even the act of playing a bell has ceremonial overtones, often reminding us to be present. Acoustically, bells are […]
Atrium Display: Hacked-Found-Repurposed
Atrium Display: Hacked-Found-Repurposed by Bryan Day Hacked-Found-Repurposed Vol. 1 is an exhibition of small-scale upcycled sound art pieces and invented instruments curated by instrument inventor Bryan Day. 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 John Collins McCormick, […]
Atrium Display: Musicians Make Garments
Atrium Display: Musicians Make Garments 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 flatten these geniuses and so too often these gifts are considered tangential rather than being celebrated as the […]
Après Baschet by Marti Ruiz
François and Bernard Baschet, working in France in the second half of the 20th century, are best known for their Cristal Baschet, an extraordinarily refined and successful musical instrument of water, glass and steel. The Cristal is but one member of the extensive and varied instrumentarium the Baschets created while simultaneously developing a cohesive system of […]
Electrogenesis: Ivor Darreg & the First Keyboard Synth Drawings from 1936-38
Atrium Display: Electrogenesis, Ivor Darreg & the First Keyboard Synth Drawings from 1936-38 Ivor Darreg (1917-1994) Invented the keyboard synthesizer in 1936 as a 19 year old. It was the first instrument of its kind in the world. An iconoclastic genius, composer, tuning theorist and instrument inventor, he created the “Electric Keyboard Oboe,” “Drum Synth,” “Orgatron,” and […]
Don Buchla: Instruments for Electronic Expression
Don Buchla: Instruments for Electronic Expression Curated by Joel Davel “In my many years working for Don Buchla, I had the pleasure of witnessing his drive to create innovative musical controllers. While many Buchla fanatics hail his modular synthesis designs, Don interest in them was often more about how a creative interface might inspire new […]