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My sonic environments at the Prelinger Library are now running into their second year. On Sundays at the Library, my “instrullation” — part installation part musical instrument — continues to infuse books and other texts with a sonic sensibility, giving visitors a unique library experience.
Every Sunday I host at the Library from 1:30 to 4 PM. During those hours I improvise with and on a 12-channel, spatially distributed, “musique concrète” instrument that I set up for Library in January 2022. It consists of around 600, mostly fleeting, sound recordings that are specifically tuned to this Library’s stacks, its contents, and its meaning as a symbol of a house of knowledge.
This is one brief walk-through in the Prelinger Library on S(•)unday, April 28, 2024
audio installation and video: T. Blum
This is another brief walk through the Prelinger Library on S(•)unday, April 28, 2024
audio installation and video: T. Blum
And here’s a sample of the instrullation at the Prelinger Library on S(•)unday, April 21, 2024
audio installation and video: T. Blum
I am pleased to be a continuing Artist In Residence at the Library, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary at its present location in San Francisco, opening in 2004.
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Prelinger Library
301 8th Street (at Folsom St.)
Suite 215
San Francisco, CA 94103