Arnold Dreyblatt's Nodal Excitation (1979) recorded live in September 2012 at a performance from Brooklyn's  ISSUE Project Room.

Arnold Dreyblatt’s notes on this solo work for his amplified "excited strings" acoustic bass:

"In the spring of 1979, I was approached to perform at a downtown performance festival in New York. I had been developing a repertoire of isolated percussive and bowed attacks, and these evolved into a continuous rhythmic technique in which I could excite chords of overtones above the fundamental."

"The performance considers the location and influence of the acoustic Nodal Regions as identified on #12 and #11 unwound music wire stretched on an acoustic double bass body (40.5" speaking length). The integrity of a fundamental vibration is maintained for both strings at all times; all movement of pitch occurs in the overtone structure. A shorter speaking length is never created through "stopping" or "fretting" techniques. Rather, harmonic, partial vibrations are calculated, coaxed, and are occasionally isolated at the nodes of the string."

Arnold Dreyblatt (born in New York City, 1953) is a composer, performer and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Among the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. As he began his music in the late 1970's in New York, he invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and system of tuning and in addition has formed and led numerous ensembles under the title The Orchestra of Excited Strings. In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently Professor for Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel.

This podcast was produced in collaboration with the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery, operating at artonair.org

Arnold Dreyblatt, "Nodal Excitation" Live at ISSUE 9/2012

Boiler Room x First World Records w/ Souleance (LIVE), Yosi Horikawa (LIVE), Comfort Fit (LIVE) & Gilla.

[Broadcasted on 19th September 2013]

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Yosi Harikawa LIVE in the Boiler Room

On March 15th, Vivian Chui, Curatorial Assistant at Pioneer Works brought Manal Kahi, CEO of Eat Offbeat into our studio for an informative discussion about how both organizations hope to help refugees in New York City and across the world. 

Eat Offbeat serves meals conceived and prepared by refugees who now call New York City home.Their menus are hand-prepared by their chefs, who marry centuries-old culinary traditions with their personal touch as newly trained professional chefs. In a single meal, you can enjoy dishes from four or five different countries and regions that, even in New York City, are off-the-beaten path recipes new to most. The meals are layered with generous flavors developed with a judicious hand and, by nature, are very accommodating to a wide variety of dietary needs.

Pioneer Works and Eat Offbeat are teaming up for their March Supper Club on Tuesday the 21st for the first in the series this year. Eat Offbeat, a culinary project comprised of refugees resettled in New York. was founded by siblings Manal and Wissam Kahi in 2015, and is advised by Chief Culinary Officer Juan Suarez de Lezo, an alumnus of esteemed Michelin-starred restaurants Per Se, El Bulli and Mugaritz. 
 
A percentage of ticket sales from this evening will go towards supporting Eat Offbeat’s mission as they continue to empower and employ refugees from around the world to deliver home-style, authentic meals. The seated dinner adjacent to WORK by E.S.P. TV, directed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan, will provide a unique opportunity to take in the artists’ first institutional solo exhibition in the United States. The Supper Club will coincide with WORK’s final week on view.

Pioneer Works : : Clocktower.org

Pioneer Works Supper Club: Eat Offbeat

Clocktower Productions is an art production institution working in the visual arts, performance, music, and radio. Founded in 1972 in Lower Manhattan by MoMA PS1 Founder Alanna Heiss, Clocktower is the oldest alternative art project in New York. 

Pioneer Works Supper Club: Eat Offbeat

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