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Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City
New York City

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, 1953) is an American
United States

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 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditation music improvisational music....
, La Monte Young
La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young is an United States composer and musician.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalism composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich....
, Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma....
 and media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka
Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s.Steina was born in Reykjav?k, Iceland and trained as a classical musician before receiving a scholarship at the Prague Conservatory in 1959....
. He has been based in Berlin
Berlin

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, Germany
Germany

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 since 1984. In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der K?nste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick I of Prussia as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas....
, Berlin).

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.






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Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, 1953) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditation music improvisational music....
, La Monte Young
La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young is an United States composer and musician.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalism composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich....
, Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma....
 and media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka
Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka and Woody Vasulka are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s.Steina was born in Reykjav?k, Iceland and trained as a classical musician before receiving a scholarship at the Prague Conservatory in 1959....
. He has been based in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 since 1984. In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der K?nste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick I of Prussia as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas....
, Berlin).

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. "Dreyblatt's project, maintains its edge--and its importance for the rethinking of identity, history, culture, and memory--by refusing to retreat from or transcend... ...public, archival traces." - Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College
Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, to be in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachu...
.

Among the second generation of New York minimal
Minimalist music

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
 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 harmonic
Harmonic

In acoustics and telecommunication, a harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the Signalling that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency....
s, and thus just intonation
Just intonation

In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequency of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series ....
, played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified bass, and other modified and conventional instruments which he specially tuned
Tuning

Tuning can refer to:*Musical tuning**Guitar tunings**Piano tuning*Radio tuning: see tuner*Tuning properties of neurons: see neuronal tuning...
. He originally used a steady pulse
Pulse

In medicine, a person's pulse is the throbbing of their artery. It can be palpated in any place that allows for an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck , at the wrist , behind the knee , on the inside of the elbow , and near the ankle joint ....
 provided by the bow
Bow (music)

In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones....
ing motion on his bass (placing his music in the minimal
Minimalist music

Minimalist music is an originally American genre of experimental music or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonance and dissonance, steady pulse , stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrase or smaller units such as Figure , Motif , and Cell ....
 category), but he eventually added many more instruments and more rhythm
Rhythm

Rhythm is the variation of the length and accentuation of a series of sounds or other events....
ic variety.

In 1998 he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

Dreyblatt's mother, Lucille Wallenrod
Lucille Wallenrod

Lucille Wallenrod was a Long Island woman artists who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Freeport, Long Island. She studied at the W.P.A. Art Class , Nassau Art League , the American Artists School , and with Sol Wilson at the Art Students League of New York ....
 (1918-1998), was a painter.

Publications

  • "Who’s Who in Central & East Europe 1933, Eine Reise in den Text", Gerhard Wolf Janus Press, Berlin 1995 (German)
  • "From the Archives", Stadtgalerie Saarbücken / Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2003 (German and English)
  • "Inschriften/Inscriptions", Jewish Museum, Frankfurt 2005 (German and English)
  • "Innocent Questions", Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2006 (Norwegian and English)


Discography
  • “Resonant Relations”, Cantaloupe Music, CD, 2008
  • “Live at Federal Hall”, Table of the Elements
    Table of the Elements

    Table of the Elements is an United States record label. It concentrates on re-released and specially-recorded experimental music, including many of the great avant garde musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — John Cale, Tony Conrad and La Monte Young, for instance — as well as lesser-known artists such as Loren Ma...
    , CD, 2006
  • “Lapse”, Table of the Elements
    Table of the Elements

    Table of the Elements is an United States record label. It concentrates on re-released and specially-recorded experimental music, including many of the great avant garde musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — John Cale, Tony Conrad and La Monte Young, for instance — as well as lesser-known artists such as Loren Ma...
    , LP, 2004
  • “The Adding Machine”, Cantaloupe Music, CD, 2002
  • “Escalator” on “Renegade Heaven”, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cantaloupe Music, CD, 2000
  • “The Sound of One String – Previously Unreleased Live Recordings 1979-1992”, Table of the Elements, CD, 1998
  • “Nodal Excitation”, Dexter’s Cigar, Drag City
    Drag City

    Drag City may refer to:*A Drag City from Jan & Dean's 1963 album of the same name*An Drag City Records...
    , CD; 1998
  • “Animal Magnetism”, Tzadik Records
    Tzadik Records

    Tzadik Records is a record label based in New York City specialising in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by the eclectic composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995 in music; Zorn is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases....
    , CD
  • “a haymisch groove”, Extraplatte, Vienna, CD, 1994
  • “Propellers in Love”, and “High Life” , Hat Art Records, CD, 1986
  • Nodal Excitation, India Navigation Records, LP, 1982


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