Exhibitions
Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
December 2024
David Tudor: Circuits, Resonance, Collaborations
The concert soundscape arranged by Phil Edelstein, John D.S. Adams, Michael Johnsen, and Gökhan Deneç included dynamic visuals from “Fragments and Their Shadows 2024″ by Sophia Ogielska and Phil Edelstein, based on the artwork by David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska.
Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany
July 2022
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) .
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’s works and concepts and to work with them in new artistic productions.
Photographs by Daniel Pepper
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
July 2021 - February 2022
Shadows cast by Toneburst Map 4 and Ideogram Cluster. Photo by P. Edelstein.
David Tudor and Sophia Ogielska, Map 4 and Ideogram Cluster (1995-1996) installation at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2021. Photo by P. Edelstein.
Ideogram Cluster, side view © Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Photo by Rainer Iglar.
Teasing chaos 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 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 through 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
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
May - September 2018
Ideogram Cluster, prints on polycarbonate sheets, 6 parts 24 x 140 inches each.
Toneburst Map 4, print on acrylic panel 48 x 48 inches.
“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 E.A.T.’s multidisciplinary collaborations.
The retrospective included the site-specific installation of works from Tudor and Ogielska’s Toneburst Maps and Fragments project, accompanied by a binaural recording of Tudor’s Toneburst created by John D. S. Adams.
ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NYC, NY
October 2016
Installation of Toneburst Map 4 with Ideogram Clusters
David Lang conducting "Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for 12 Radios" by John Cage
Program of the 2016 Lab Gala
The exhibition of Toneburst Maps and Fragments concluded the sequence of events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 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.
The installation also accompanied an evening of performances and a panel discussion.
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
February 1998
"Toneburst Fragments". Music Gallery, Toronto 1998.
Fragments and their colorful shadows, Music Gallery Toronto 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.
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
September - October 1996
Toneburst Map 4 and Ideogram Cluster 2
Ideogram Cluster
Ideogram Cluster 1 (detail)
Toneburst Map 1 (part 3)
Meeting at Wesleyan in 1996: Sophia Ogielska and David Tudor (left), Ron Kuivila (center, standing), Alvin Lucier (right, standing).
Fax sent for the opening by Jackie Matisse Monnier, a longtime friend and supporter of David Tudor.
The first show of Toneburst: Maps and Fragments was in the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University. David Tudor visited the gallery shortly before his death to listen to its acoustics, and John D.S. Adams carried out the design of the sound space accompanying the exhibition.
A grant from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation made possible the printing of the illustrated catalogue, with additional funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, founded by Jasper Johns and John Cage.
Professors Ellen D’Oench, Ron Kuivila, and Alvin Lucier assisted in organizing this exhibition at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University.
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