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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 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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Elevator Music 7: Billboard

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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Elevator Music 6: Pamela Z

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

Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions, Elevator Music

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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