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Tag Archives: sound experiments
SFMOMA Artist’s Ephemera Blog
I was delighted to be greeted with an email from Tanya Zimbardo, Assistant Curator of Media Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this morning informing me that the poster I created to announce my 1968 show Ritual at the Unicorn … Continue reading
Posted in Musical Instruments, Sculpture, Sound, Visual
Tagged drawing, ritual, sound experiments
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Life Is Short
Below is a link to another example of my explorations in frame by frame animation (a 6.4MB QuickTime movie). It will probably take you longer to download than it will to view it. Everything I do in animation is a … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Sound, Video
Tagged animation, digital drawing, Frame by Frame Animation, sound experiments
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First Bolinas Instrument
Another post from the NFMOA Archives: The First Bolinas Instrument . It came into being out of a real fascination with the ephemeral sound of overtones and a strong desire to explore and listen to them. I started looking around … Continue reading
Posted in Musical Instruments, Sound, Visual
Tagged Bolinas, decalcomania, digital drawing, drone, drone strings, handmade tuning pegs, harmonics, overtones, sculpture, sound experiments, tuning pegs
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The Bolinas Balafon
For a change of pace and in keeping with my recent promise, I am today stepping away from the digital decalcomania projects to present some content from the sound experiment and toy-making archives. The Bolinas Balafon lacked any sounding chambers, … Continue reading
Posted in Musical Instruments, Sound, Toys, Visual
Tagged acrylic painting, assemblage, Bolinas, Duxbury Reef, painting on canvas, sculpture, sound experiments, toy-making
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Totem Repair Shop: detail #2 from work in progress
I am still drawing every day on my first color digital decalcomania project: The Totem Repair Shop. That title had started out as just a working title, but I am growing to like it. It will probably stick. Thanks for … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Drawing & Painting, Visual
Tagged decalcomania, digital drawing, digital painting, random source, sound experiments
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Om Generator
Bolinas Om Generator In 1967, on one of my almost daily beachcombing walks at Agate Beach near Bolinas, California, I found a piece of very weathered, scarred, and pitted black plastic pipe about 12 feet long. The inside diameter was … Continue reading
The Hummer
Discovery In the mid-1980’s, I went on an all day field trip with several dozen students and a few fellow teachers to the Oakland Museum. During a break I was walking in the gardens of the Museum chatting with some … Continue reading
The Bolinas Sound Toy
Description Similar to the African Kalimba, the Bolinas Sound Toy (BST), shown here without mics attached, produces a wonderful polyrhythmic array of twanging, clicking, and ticking sounds by simply pressing down then quickly releasing one or more of its twangers … Continue reading
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