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 […]
CMT Creates Music
Artist Talk and Demonstration Thursday, January 12, 2017, 6 to 8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement CMT Creates Music is an art project led by Tim Phillips to create awareness for Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT) through the creation and performance […]
Imaginary Mechanical Instruments
Imaginary Mechanical Instruments Historical and Contemporary Prints FREE Reception July 32, 26pm at the Center for New Music 53.7 Taylor Street, San Francisco with selected realizations and multi-touch applications by Ian Saxton (Actual Free Reception August 26, 7pm, 55 Taylor Street, SF) With images dating from 1618-1995, the variety of pure inventive genius on display […]
Susan Rawcliffe: Music in Clay
ARTIST TALK AND DEMONSTRATION Thursday, September 8, 2016, 6 to 8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement I make, play and research clay musical instruments: flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus, and sound sculptures. Wanting to build a better flute, I began […]
Larnie Fox: Cranks and Other Noisemakers
ARTIST TALK AND DEMONSTRATION Thursday, July 7, 2016, 6 to 8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement I like to make things that other people think are “cool”. I like other people to make things that I think are “cool”. I think […]
Kraut Kontrol by Trimpin
SPECIAL PREVIEW & ARTIST TALK Sunday, May 8, 5-7 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 6 PM. Trimpin will rebuild and install Kraut Kontrol, a unique sculptural instrument that has not been viewed since its premiere installation at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2001. […]
Bosky Jangle – Instruments by Bart Hopkin
ARTIST TALK AND DEMONSTRATION Thursday, March 3, 6-8 PM Join the artist for a free opening reception! Talk and demonstration will begin at 7 PM. Artist Statement Bosky Jangle is a foresty-feeling kinetic soundspace. In the past few years I’ve made several semi-self-playing instruments – musical instruments which, once set in motion, continue to sound […]
Oliver DiCicco – The Magnetic Series
Artist Talk and Demonstration Thursday, January 7, 6 – 8 PM OLIVER DICICCO ARTIST STATEMENT My work is about the intersections of disciplines. The point where music, sculpture, mechanics and engineering meet, is an intriguing place for me. I try to create pieces that work on these many levels. My interest in music and sound comes from my […]
Sudhu Tewari: Tune for Minimal Smoke II
Artist’s bio: Sudhu Tewari has been called a professional bricoleur, junkyard maven and young audio-gadgeteer. Sudhu builds electronic audio devices, electro-acoustic musical instruments, kinetic sculpture, interactive installations, wearable sound art, mechanical televisions, physical models of astrophysical phenomena, and sound sculpture. Highly educated at Mills College in electronic music, Tewari has been seen performing […]
Sung Kim: Failures, Prototypes, and Works In Progress
Artist Talk and Demonstration Thursday, October 1, 6 – 8 PM To open the Thingamajigs Festival (Oct. 1-2-3-4) Sung Kim (b. 1975) is an improvisor, sculptor, and instrument builder born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in Washington, D.C. In 1989, Kim studied ceramic sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art. It was at Corcoran that […]