All Elevator Music

Elevator Music 20: Sharon Hayes
I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I'm Not Free

February 18 - June 3, 2012

This exhibition raises questions about war and the emotional landscape of protest actions. See More

Filed Under: Audio, Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions, Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music

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

Filed Under: Elevator Music