Saturday, May 13–27, 2017
Opening: Friday, May 19, 2017 • 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Graphic notation is the representation of music using non-traditional symbols, illustrations, photographs and objects. So visually exquisite, some graphic scores can be works of art in and of themselves. Bay area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be presenting his graphic scores, generative compositional systems and records made from seismographs.
Music Notation For Artists: Saturday, May 20, 2017 • 2–5:00 p.m.
Learn how to map musical parameters to visual sources. Class fee includes Graphic Notation Kit and ticket to Grim’s performance on May 27th. Scores created in this class may be performed either in-class and/or by the Maps to the Stars Ensemble. Turn your visual art into music! Sign up
Maps to the Stars Ensemble: Saturday, May 27th, 2017 • 8:00 p.m.
To end his month in residence at kitLAB, Bay Area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be performing scores from workshop participants and classic graphic scores with Lisa Mezzacappa and Jacob Felix Heule. Buy Tickets
About the Artist
As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
Saturday, May 13–27, 2017
Opening: Friday, May 19, 2017 • 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Graphic notation is the representation of music using non-traditional symbols, illustrations, photographs and objects. So visually exquisite, some graphic scores can be works of art in and of themselves. Bay area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be presenting his graphic scores, generative compositional systems and records made from seismographs.
Music Notation For Artists: Saturday, May 20, 2017 • 2–5:00 p.m.
Learn how to map musical parameters to visual sources. Class fee includes Graphic Notation Kit and ticket to Grim’s performance on May 27th. Scores created in this class may be performed either in-class and/or by the Maps to the Stars Ensemble. Turn your visual art into music! Sign up
Maps to the Stars Ensemble: Saturday, May 27th, 2017 • 8:00 p.m.
To end his month in residence at kitLAB, Bay Area composer, improviser and sound artist Wayne Grim will be performing scores from workshop participants and classic graphic scores with Lisa Mezzacappa and Jacob Felix Heule. Buy Tickets
About the Artist
As a sound artist, composer, and improviser Wayne Grim works with computers, instruments, and objects. Grim’s work spans a variety of areas including generative music, spontaneous composition, non-western musical techniques, improvisation, durational works, minimalism, noise, conceptual art, the sonification of scientific phenomena and the visualization of sound. As an artist, Grim is interested in the perfection and failure of machines and humans with respect to music. Grim has been the curator if the Exploratorium’s Resonance series and creates sound and music for many Exploratorium projects.
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