innovative instruments exhibit announcementJune 30th, 1995
– Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia
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silence organJune 30th, 1995
Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia commissioned the Silence Organ for Innovative Instruments, a show of artists’ instruments presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Citycircus, a celebration of John Cage.
To exploit rooms full of interesting instruments making interesting noises, I wired the gallery with 13 microphones, each set in a resonating tube tuned to a note of the diatonic scale. The viewer would put on headphones and play a tune on an antique keyboard, in which each note was made of filtered sound from elsewhere in the gallery.
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noise guideJune 30th, 1995
Here’s the original guide from the Silence Organ’s console, showing which note corresponded to which microphone.
