Arnold Dreyblatt

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Arnold Dreyblatt
Born1953 (age 67–68)
New York City, New York
EducationUniversity at Buffalo,
Wesleyan University
Known forcomposer, performance artist, visual artist
Websitewww.dreyblatt.net

Arnold Dreyblatt (born 1953) is an American composer, performance artist, and visual artist.

Biography[]

Arnold Dreyblatt was born in 1953 in New York City.[1][2] Dreyblatt's mother, Lucille Wallenrod (1918–1998), was a painter.[3]

He started his studies at Wesleyan University in the 1970s, and transferred to the Center for Media Study at the University at Buffalo.[3] In 1982, Dreyblatt obtained his master's degree in composition from Wesleyan University, his thesis was titled, "Nodal Excitation".[4] He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier (at Wesleyan University), and new media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka.

In his installations, performances and media works, Dreyblatt creates complex textual and spatial metaphors for memory which function as a media discourse on recollection and the archive. His installations, public artworks and performances have been exhibited and staged extensively in Europe.

Among the second generation of New York minimal composers, Arnold Dreyblatt has developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. He has invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning. His compositions are based on harmonics, and thus just intonation, played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified bass, and other modified and conventional instruments which he specially tuned. He originally used a steady pulse provided by the bowing motion on his bass (placing his music in the minimal category), but he eventually added many more instruments and more rhythmic variety.

Dreyblatt received a 1998 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.[citation needed] He has worked with Paul Panhuysen, and .[citation needed]

He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, he was elected to the Academy of Arts, Berlin.[5]

Collaboration[]

Dreyblatt has collaborated on material with the psych-folk band Megafaun.[citation needed] They've recorded a forthcoming album in 2012 and performed at the third annual Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina in September 2012.[6] They also performed at the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York City in February 2013.[7]

Discography[]

  • Nodal Excitation, (India Navigation, 1982)
  • Propellers in Love, and "High Life" (HatART, 1986)
  • a haymisch groove, Extraplatte, Vienna (1994)
  • Animal Magnetism, (Tzadik)
  • The Sound of One String – Previously Unreleased Live Recordings 1979–1992, (Table of the Elements, 1998)
  • "Escalator" on Renegade Heaven, Bang on a Can All-Stars, (Cantaloupe, 2000)
  • The Adding Machine, (Cantaloupe, 2002)
  • Lapse, (Table of the Elements, 2004)
  • Live at Federal Hall, (Table of the Elements, 2006)
  • Resonant Relations, (Cantaloupe, 2008)
  • Appalachian Excitation, with Megafaun (Northern Spy, 2013)

References[]

  1. ^ "Arnold Dreyblatt". Berliner Festspiele. February 2014.
  2. ^ "LUX 03: Lapse – Arnold Dreyblatt". LUX. Comune di Città Sant’Angelo, Fondazione Pescarabruzzo. 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Freerix, Michael (October 2014). "Arnold Dreyblatt". Perfect Sound Forever (magazine).
  4. ^ M.A. Theses in Ethnomusicology and Composition, Wesleyan University. Department of Music. Dreyblatt, Arnold, 1982. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
  5. ^ Layne, Joslyn. "Arnold Dreyblatt". AllMusic.com.
  6. ^ Hopscotch Music Festival Lineup Archived 2012-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun at Ecstatic Music Festival

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