About the Artist Innovative California luthier Fred Carlson got his start in rural Vermont, where as a teenager in the early 1970s he worked with artist Ken Riportella, a maker of musical sculptures. In 1975 Fred studied guitar-building with acclaimed lutherie teacher Charles Fox. Throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s Fred built and repaired stringed instruments […]
Zoophoneum: The Sonified Wilderness
Atrium Display- Zoophoneum: The Sonified Wilderness The Zoophoneum began its conceptual life in 2015 when artist and curator David Samas was co-curating his first exhibition of imaginary instruments with the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments; an exhibition which included illustrator and sound sculptor Monte Thrasher. Samas’s unique focus on biological sources reflects his deep and […]
Terry Berlier: Resounding Desire Lines
Artist Statement I am an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, kinetics, interactivity and sound to focus on the environment, ideas of nonplace/place and queer practice. My work emphasizes the essential role played by history, social relations, cultural memories and environmental conditions in the creation of our identities. Using humor, I provide tools for recovering and […]
The Imaginary Instruments of Dr. Seuss
The Imaginary Instruments of Dr. Seuss The collected works of the legendary Dr Seuss (Ted Geisel) played a significant formulating role in my psyche is a child, as it did for much of my generation, as it does for my children to whom I still read these books. Ted taught us the alphabet, anatomy, ethics, […]
Phil Dadson: shiver me timbres
“shiver me timbres” – solos and collaborations with a multi-voiced instrument by Phil Dadson. During his 2016 summer residency at Headlands Centre for the Arts (Sausalito), New Zealand based artist/musician & instrument builder Phil Dadson converted an old, wooden […]
MicroFest North: Parsing the Octave, Dennis Aman
This second gallery exhibit of MicroFest North presents the work of Dennis Aman and his furthering the work of Ivor Darreg in small equal temperaments. “For the past few years, I have been building a set of instruments that will allow the duo The Living Earth Show (Guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson) to perform on […]
Ivor Darreg: All Equal Divisions
All Equal Divisions is an exhibition of the work of Ivor Darreg who will have turned 100 on May 5, 2017. Megalyra instruments and original tuning charts from the Ivor Darreg Archives in San Diego are exhibited near the just intonation charts by Lou Harrison. About the Artist Ivor Darreg (1917-1994) was interested in both […]
Lou Harrison & Bill Colvig: Iconoclast Centennials
Iconoclast Centennials is a historical exhibition of invented instruments created by Bill Colvig, including original Lou Harrison just intonation tuning diagrams. On display will be rare original mimeos of tuning diagrams for Harrison’s just intonation zither as well as Colvig’s gamelan-like Tubaphone for Bill Alves, Coffee Can and Steel Pipe Sarons, Triangular Kanong and Bonang […]
Pacific Resonance
Artist Talk and Demonstration Thursday, March 9, 2017, 6 to 8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Sonic Windows is a series of immersive sound environments that feature binaural recordings of underwater landscapes from the Pacific Ocean – Wellington, New Zealand, Pier 39 San […]
Krystyna Bobrowski, Sliding Sonorities
Artist Talk and Demonstration Thursday, November 10, 2016, 6 to 8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM and will feature a performance of In Two Directions, for piano and electronics, 1998, with pianist Jennifer Peringer. About Sliding Sonorities The exhibit Sliding Sonorities explores the […]