Musician and multimedia artist Gordon Monahan has created works ranging from piano compositions to loudspeaker installations since the late '70s. He played in rock bands for several years, starting in the late '60s. From the mid-'70s th...
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First performed in 1982, this piece uses 9 sine/square wave oscillators broadcast over 3 loudspeakers that are...
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Recorded in the former WC Wood Refrigerator factory. The piano plays the music, but the piano is not being pla...
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Long piano strings are attached at one end to a chimney and the other end to the wooden roof of several storag...
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A theremin antenna made of flexible wire is mechanized so that it swings spastically as a chaotic pendulum. Th...
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Documentation of performance using an interactive theremin to control a mechanical sound installation consisti...
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Spontaneously Harmonious in Certain kinds of Weather documents Monahan s 1996 installation at Singuhr-Hoergale...
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Mechanical sound sculpture that is part medieval weapon and part vintage audio system. A catapult throws a lou...
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A whirlpool is created in a plexiglas cylinder by pumping water through the cylinder. 8 piano strings are atta...
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At the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, May 2009....
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Swinging speakers make music at Nut Blanche 2009 where me pal Gordon Monahan had set up an acoustic event at M...
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Gordon Monahan uses fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesi...
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A PIANO LISTENING TO ITSELF -- CHOPIN CHORD Sześć długich strun fortepianu zwieszonych z wieży Zamku Królewski...
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Naturally occurring voltages in lemons are used as signal controllers for an audio synthesizer. conceived & de...
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SUSPENDED Eine Performance mit einer Triangelkonstruktion von Akemi Takeya in Kooperation mit dem kanadischen ...
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John Kilduff of Let s Paint TV does his version of the Beatles song Hey Jude . Performed live with the Electri...
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Lauren Chin performing in Gordon Monahan s Space Becomes the Instrument , a 12-hour performance at Massey Hall...
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Boota is a syllabically rearranged version of the song Taboo . I changed the order of the syllables to ersatz ...
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Installation performance by Gordon Monahan at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, presented by the DAAD Inventione...
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Sound installation by Gordon Monahan installed at the City Hall Fountain, Kitchener, Ontario, for the Open Ear...
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Toddler Body plays the Emotion Organ opening reception at the Women s Art Resource Centre. June 17 2010. Also ...
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A steel and glass box is placed in front of a fireplace so that an airtight fitting is achieved. Naturally-occ...
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Short film celebrating John Cage Shot at the opening of the exhibition MEMBRA DISJECTA FOR JOHN CAGE: Wanting ...
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On April 29, 2011 Songmasters and PJ Clarke s hosted the True Love Ways event in NYC, which celebrated the gen...
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La Forza Del Destino on a Gordon Player Piano. My kid s first attempt at a real video :)...
