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Trimpin : contraptions for art and sound
- Title
- Trimpin : contraptions for art and sound / compiled and edited by Anne Focke ; with contributions by Trimpin [and others].
- Author
- Trimpin, 1951-
- Publication
- Seattle [Wash.] : University of Washington Press, ©2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Focke, Anne.
- Description
- 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music festivals; and has had installations and exhibitions around the world. Despite all this, access to Trimpin's work is limited. He doesn't record his music and very few of his sculptural works are in public or private collections. This book captures a record of this remarkable journey and places Trimpin's work in the context of visual art, music composition, performance, ambitious engineering, acoustics, and installation art. A touchstone for the book is a two-year series of exhibitions of his work in museums across the Pacific Northwest. It includes essays on Trimpin's life, his work with composer Conlon Nancarrow, and a fully illustrated presentation of key sculptures and performances. Additional essays by writers, composers, and curators consider his work through specific pieces. Trimpin's own voice is a continuous thread running through the entire publication.
- Alternative Title
- Contraptions for art and sound
- Subject
- Contents
- Trimpin the visual artist / Renny Pritikin -- Music of the spheres / Jean Strouse -- Trimpin in transition / Hans Lauber -- Archival investigations / Steve Peters -- Trimpin, Nancarrow, and the transfer of memory / Kyle Gann -- Bellow blowout / Charles Amirkhanian -- The (un)common object / Chris Bruce -- A two-year immersion / Beth Sellars -- Sheng high milltown, 2006 / Stephen Glueckert -- Dreamer / David Mahler -- Bringing a new work to life / Jenny BiIfield and Sasha Leitman -- What if ...? / David Harrington.
- Trimpin the visual artist / Renny Pritikin -- Music of the spheres / Jean Strouse -- Trimpin in transition / Hans Lauber -- Archival investigations / Steve Peters -- Trimpin, Nancarrow, and the transfer of memory / Kyle Gann -- Bellow blowout / Charles Amirkhanian -- The (un)common object / Chris Bruce -- A two-year immersion / Beth Sellars -- Sheng high milltown, 2006 / Stephen Glueckert -- Dreamer / David Mahler -- Bringing a new work to life / Jenny BiIfield and Sasha Leitman -- What if...? / David Harrington.
- ISBN
- 9780295991092
- 0295991097
- LCCN
- 2011008534
- OCLC
- ocn682897026
- 682897026
- SCSB-1598174
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library