Opening night: Site-specific laser projection of "Toneburst Map 4" by David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska. Michael Johnsen performs David Tudor's "Untitled/Toneburst" (1972/1994) .
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Toneburst Maps and Fragments
David Tudor & Sophia Ogielska 1994 - 1996
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unexpected territories - David Tudor
Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
July 2022
Portrait of David Tudor standing in front of the wall projection of his original circuit design for "Untitled 1972". Laser projection of a 1995 photo by Sophia Ogielska.
unexpected territories by singuhr— projekte explores the traces and collaborations of american composer, performer and pioneer of live electronic music David Tudor (1926 — 1996).
The focus of unexpected territories is on the influences of Tudor’s ideas, utopias and works on the present. Tudor’s artistic companions, selected sound artists and composers are invited to reflect on David Tudor’ works and concepts and to work with them in new artistic productions.
singuhr-projekte e.v. is a decentralized, internationally linked association that presents and promotes site-specific installation-based sound art.
(Excerpted from the exhibition program.)
Photographs by Daniel Pepper.
Teasing Chaos. David Tudor
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
July 2021 - February 2022
David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska, Map 4 and Ideogram Cluster (1995-1996) installation at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2021. Photos by P. Edelstein.
Teasing chaos. David Tudor is the first retrospective of David Tudor – performer, composer, and interdisciplinary artist. His art spanned diverse areas from virtuoso avant-garde piano performances, to groundbreaking music compositions embodied in electronic circuits he created, to live performances of electronic music, and art projects with visual artists. Teasing chaos brings together a selection of Tudor’s archival material, electronic instruments, installations, video and audio recordings, and collaborative visual works.
The exhibition includes an immersive installation of Toneburst Maps and Fragments: Map 4 and Ideogram Cluster, integrated with the sound space created with multi-channel recordings of Tudor’s composition Untitled/Toneburst.
MdM also published an illustrated book with essays by David Behrman, Billy Klüver/Julie Martin, Patricia Lent, Alan Licht, You Nakai, Christina Penetsdorfer, Matt Rogalsky, Thorsten Sadowsky and Christian Wolff.
E.A.T. (Experiments in Arts and Technology): Open-Ended
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
May - September 2018
David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska, Ideogram Cluster (1995-1996), site-specific installation for MMCA Seoul, Korea. 6 parts 24 x 140 inches each, laminated prints on clear polycarbonate sheets.
Ideogram Cluster - Detail
“E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology): Open-ended” at MMCA was the first retrospective in Korea of the works and projects created in the E.A.T.’s multidisciplinary collaborations.
The Toneburst installation included a sound component titled “Toneburst: Maps and Fragments Binaural Audio”, composed of 72 minutes of Tudor’s original Toneburst recordings, followed by 3 different modifications spatialized in a 360 degree binaural soundscape by John D. S. Adams.
Exhibition of Toneburst Maps and Fragments, with Performances of David Tudor's Untitled/Toneburst
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NYC, NY
October 2016
Installation of Toneburst Map 4 with Ideogram Clusters
ISSUE Project Room 2016 Lab Gala Program
Michael Johnsen after his performance of Tudor's Untitled
David Lang conducting "Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for 12 Radios" by John Cage
The installation of Toneburst Maps and Fragments accompanied the ISSUE Project Room Annual Bell Labs Gala, and an evening of performances of Tudor’s Untitled/Toneburst and panel discussion organized by Harvestworks.
It concluded the sequence of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of founding of Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) by two artists, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman, and two Bell Labs engineers, Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer.
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Exhibition of Toneburst Maps and Fragments, with Performances of works by David Tudor and John Cage
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
February 1998
An installation of Toneburst Maps and Fragments in The Music Gallery in Toronto together with performance of works by David Tudor and John Cage by D’Arcy P Gray and John DS Adams.
Exhibition of Toneburst Maps and Fragments, with Performance of David Tudor's Toneburst
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
September - October 1996
Toneburst Map 4 and Ideogram Clusters
John D.S. Adams performing Tudor's Toneburst
Ideogram Cluster (detail)
Meeting at Wesleyan in 1996: Sophia Ogielska and David Tudor (left), Ron Kuivila (center, standing), Alvin Lucier (right, standing).
Toneburst Map 1 (detail)
David Tudor's circuit of electronic components for the performance of Untitled/Toneburst, Zilkha Gallery 1996
In the 1996 installation of Toneburst: Maps and Fragments the sound space interacts with its visual representation. The sound is built from three 20 minute recordings of Toneburst performed by David Tudor.Tudor chose them for their variety and overlap allowing for multiple integrations.
When David Tudor enters a performance space, he does not work against its acoustics, but rather uses the space to shape his music. For the installation in Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University Tudor asked John D.S. Adams to carry out the design. The placement of six loudspeakers creates distinct, interacting zones of sound. Manipulation of frequency spectra and dynamics adapts the sound to this unique environment, with three CD players providing variability of combinations.