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Elevator Music 24
Laurie Spiegel: Harmonices Mundi
May 25 - September 1, 2013
Elevator Music 24 presents the 1977 composition Harmonices Mundi, by composer, multi-instrumentalist and software developer Laurie Spiegel (b. 1945, Chicago). See More
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Elevator Music 23
Yoko Ono: Listen
January 26 - May 19, 2013
Listen presents a selection of music by pioneering artist, musician, and activist Yoko Ono. See More
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Elevator Music 22
Seeing Sounds
October 20 - December 30, 2012
Gregory Carter '13 and Adrienne Fuller '13 will use sounds created and recorded by Tang visitors in the exhibition Hearing Pictures to create a new piece for the museum's Elevator Music series. See More
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Elevator Music 21
Doug Van Nort: Constellate
June 9 - October 14, 2012
Doug Van Nort is a sound artist and experimental musician whose work explores the radical sculpting of sonic environments, noise, immersion and the embodied nature of listening. See More
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February 18 - June 3, 2012
This exhibition raises questions about war and the emotional landscape of protest actions. See More
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Elevator Music 19
Kabir Carter: Split
September 17, 2011 - January 20, 2012
Playing on the idea of “elevator music,” Kabir Carter’s new work Split—features sounds based on the noises generated by the elevator itself. See More
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Elevator Music 18
Michael Prime: L- Fields
April 12 - September 11, 2011
Michael Prime’s compositions blend environmental sounds gathered from around the world with organic sounds generated from the biorhythms of plants and fungi. See More
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Elevator Music 17
Peter Edwards: Specter
October 9, 2010 - February 27, 2011
Elevator Music 17 features a new sound and light based sculpture by sound artist and instrument builder Peter Edwards. See More
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Elevator Music 16
Head Rhythm 1 and Plaything 2, 1999
May 14 - September 19, 2010
Composer and sound installation artist, Maryanne Amacher makes works that explore the physical phenomena of sound and human auditory perception. See More
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Elevator Music 15: A Sound Map of the Hudson
July 18, 2009 - March 14, 2010
An aural journey spanning from the source of the Hudson River. See More
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Elevator Music 12: Jessica Rylan
May 24 - September 20, 2008
Sound artist, electronic musician, and instrument maker Jessica Rylan transforms the Tang’s cavernous, stainless steel elevator into a new kind of musical instrument. See More
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Elevator Music 10: Atmospherics/Weather Works
July 14 - December 30, 2007
Andrea Polli weaves information from a highly detailed meteorological model of Hurricane Bob, the storm that ravaged coastal areas of the Northeastern United States in August 1991, into a sound composition that illuminates the underlying rhythms of seemingly chaotic events. See More
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Elevator Music 9: Elevator's Music
February 3 - April 29, 2007
Four robots within the Tang elevator's ceiling, each with the capacity to open its own door in the ceiling, "look around" and respond depending upon the behavior of the humans it carries, creating an illusion of sentient beings. See More
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March 11 - June 4, 2006
"Billboard" is a digital analysis of every number one single from Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart from 1958 through 2000. Using time-lapse phonography, "Billboard" enables the listener to experience 857 songs in about thirty-seven minutes. See More
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October 29, 2005 - January 30, 2006
San Francisco-based composer and performer Pamela Z creates a commissioned multi-channel audio installation for the Elevator Music series and combines segments of her new piece with previous works in a live performance kicking off the Tang's Fifth Anniversary Fall Reception. See More
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Elevator Music 4: Julianne Swartz
February 5 - June 5, 2005
Borrowing the vibrant music of rock and folk performers of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Swartz renders once-poignant anthems into “elevator music”—bland, atmospheric décor meant to distract and pacify rather then stimulate and rally. See More
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