I was just catching up on the excellent electronic music blog, ‘Disquiet’, and read news of an interesting exhibition at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, (which discounts my attendance, I’m sorry to say).

The exhibtion is called Every Sound You Can Imagine and explores the cross-fertilization between musicians and visual artists, revealing the vital interaction of experimental music with cutting-edge visual art.

Langton presents rare and never-before-heard tapes from its archive by musicians, performers, poets, and visual artists who have performed at Langton since its founding in 1974, including Alvin Curran, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Wadada Leo Smith. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club is an accompanying program of performance and selected films videos.

Every Sound You Can Imagine is a veritable who’s who of the most adventurous names in contemporary composition over 70 composers and artists including: William Basinski, Wallace Berman, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Bruce Conner, Alvin Curran, Paul Dresher, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Ryoji Ikeda, Gyorgy Ligeti, Christian Marclay, Barry McGee, Phill Niblock, Carsten Nikolai, Raster-Noton, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Steve Roden, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick, Miko Vainio. Stephen Vitiello, Iannis Xenakis, and many more.

The exhibition features oddities such as 10 ways of drawing music, an example of avant-garde sheet music

Every Sound You Can Imagine runs until 28th March 2009
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