Windows & Chairs with Hugh Livingston
Audio Engineer Margaret Schedel
a hanging sound installation with resonating glass
in collaboration with visual artists Ali Dadgar, Slobodan Dan Paich, Carol Ladewig, Erik Friedman, Katherine Westerhout and musicians Kourosh Taghavi, Matthew Sperry, Phillip Greenlief, Matthew Goodheart, Damon Smith, Tanje Feichtmair, Tom Bickley.
WINDOWS CLOSING PERFORMANCE and RECEPTION: THURSDAY JULY 29, 530-730 pm
Performances by Damon Smith, Tom Bickley, Jonathan Segel, Matt Ingalls with special guest Kourosh Taghavi (Persian Setar Master)
The Oakland Art Gallery is on Kahn's Alley in Frank Ogawa Plaza, downtown Oakland. The gallery entrance faces the Rotunda building and its corner points towards City Hall. It is easily accessible by AC Transit and the 12th Street BART station. Kahn's Alley begins at the intersection of Broadway and Telegraph and 15th Street., and is the walkway leading into the plaza. It is probably not on your map. The gallery phone number is 510 637 0395, www.oaklandartgallery.org. Metered street parking is available, and free after 6pm. There is a convenient garage next to City Hall, with an entrance on Clay Street parallel to Broadway between 14th and 16th. From the freeway, take 980 towards downtown Oakland and exit to 18th street. First available left to cross the highway, then turn right where you see the sign for San Pablo (a hard right onto Clay Street ) for the garage, or continue straight to street parking on Telegraph or Broadway, with the gallery a short distance to your right.
Windows and Chairs, a sound installation by situational music composer Hugh Livingston, combines composition of new music with collaboratively produced visual artworks. Windows and Chairs turns ordinary household objects into vehicles for both sound art and visual art, creating a special canvas for interdisciplinary collaboration. The window is first offered to a visual artist, who contributes elements such as collage, text, photographic images and painting techniques to transform the glass and its frame. The work is then provided to a musician to create a soundscape which will be the permanent sound of this object.
Windows and Chairs is a co-production with the Oakland Art Gallery. The project is supported by the City of Oakland's Cultural Arts Commission and funded by the Oakland Cultural Arts and Marketing Department.
Sound Pad technology provided by Sonic Impact Technologies, Encinitas.