Bill Fontana - Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Masterclass

Posted: Wednesday 6 June 2012

Glasgow UNESCO City of Music are excited to announce that world renowned American sound artist Bill Fontana will delivering a masterclass on Tuesday 12th June at the City Halls 6pm to 7.30pm.  He has worked for the past 30 years creating installations that use sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural settings. These have been installed in public spaces and museums around the world including San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Venice, Sydney and Tokyo.

This is a unique event for all those interested in sound recording and composition to hear Bill talk about his work, techniques and experiences.

Tuesday 12^th June
6pm – 7.30pm
Free but ticketed
City Halls – Club Room
Candleriggs
Glasgow
G1 1NQ

Tickets free but must be reserved via Eventbrite: http://glasgowcityofmusicbillfontana.eventbrite.com   
For further details contact: tomdalzell@glasgowconcerthalls.com 
For more info regarding Bill Fontana visit: www.resoundings.org

Bill Fontana (born USA 1947) is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound.

"…My sound sculptures use the human and/or natural environment as a living source of musical information. I am assuming that at any given moment there will be something meaningful to hear and that music, in the sense of coherent sound patterns, is a process that is going on constantly. My methodology has been to create networks of simultaneous listening points that relay real time acoustic data to a common listening zone (sculpture site). Since 1976 I have called these works sound sculptures….from the late 90”s until the present my projects have explored hybrid listening technologies of acoustic microphones, underwater sensors (hydrophones) and structural/material sensors (accelerometers). I have also realized and am developing projects that access live seismic networks to explore the sound energy of ocean waves, travelling long distances underground.” Bill Fontana

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