For its 2015–16 season, The Drawing Center has developed two multi-evening events for its newly renovated galleries that demonstrate the institution’s increased focus on the intersections between drawing, sound, and performance-based art. Interspersed between major exhibitions, Drawing Sound brings commissions of new work to The Drawing Center’s space and builds upon the institution’s recent explorations of drawing and music in the work of Iannis Xenakis and William Engelen. Billy Martin and String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris) curate the two Drawing Sound performances in July and September of 2015, respectively.

Part II: String Noise

For the second part of Drawing Sound this fall, String Noise are curating a three-night event, featuring different performers each night.

Night 1 - September 11, 2015 7:30pm

Alvin Lucier (composer)

Ben Manley (sound engineer)

Performing BIRD AND PERSON DYNING (1975) and Music for Snar Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)

Conrad Harris (violin, from String Noise)

Performing TAPPER (2004)

NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS, a documentary by Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder on

Lucier, plays in The Lab gallery.

Night 2 - September 12, 2015 7:30pm

Greg Saunier (composer)

Curt Sydnor (pianist)

Performing the US premiere of Opera, Quasi Fortississimo, and a new hour-long work for piano, composed by Greg Saunier, performed by Curt Sydnor.

Followed by Les Bon Hommes: William Kuehn of Rainer Maria (drums), Deron Pulley (bass), and Greg Saunier (guitar & vocals)

Night 3 - September 13, 2015 7:30pm

Jad Fair (guitar)

Lumberob (aka Rob Erickson)

Performing a series of songs and vocal electronics, alongside projections of Fair’s paper cuttings

Throughout the three-day event, Echoic Memory, a site-specific sound piece by artist and composer Spencer Topel, is installed in the Drawing Room.

An episode on Jad Fair, by Hardly Sound, a documentary TV series focusing on Texas underground music and artists, plays in The Lab gallery.

Image: Jad Fair. Photo by Jutta Brandt.