Site and Sound -- February 2009

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Bill Fontana: Spiraling Echoes
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Artist Bill Fontana discusses his sound sculpture installation Spiraling Echoes, which plays San Francisco's city hall like a musical instrument, using specially-designed lasers to bounce ambient sounds off the walls.

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New Langton Arts: Every Sound You Can Imagine
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Sam Spivak discusses New Langton Arts' February 2009 exhibition, Every Sound You Can Imagine, a collection of musical scores.

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Robert Shimshak: Collector
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Robert Shimshak discusses his interest in collecting art in general and musical notations in particular. Shimshak's collection makes up a large part of New Langton Arts' February 2009 Every Sound You Can Imagine exhibition. The show includes musical notations by John Cage, Fred Frith, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Riley and many more.

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Educator Guide
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Download the Educator Guide for this episode at kqed.org/gallerycrawl.

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In February 2009, GALLERY CRAWL visits with Bill Fontana as he puts the finishing touches on his sound installation SPIRALING ECHOES, which essentially uses San Francisco City Hall as a musical instrument, shooting ultrasonic beams of bird, underwater and city street sounds off the walls of the building's rotunda. A few blocks away, New Langton Arts, a gallery known for its cultivation of innovative contemporary art, most particularly performance and time-based media, launches EVERY SOUND YOU CAN IMAGINE, an exhibition of musical scores. Robert Shimshak, the co-curator of the show and the art collector whose work anchors it, explains the connection between musical notation and visual art.

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