Monday November 25 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
The gallery will be transformed into a musical instrument where the location in the gallery will determine what the performers and audience hear. The audience will move through the space in order to hear the instrument from their personal perspective as a piece of music is spontaneously developed through the interaction of the physical space, sine waves and pedalsteel guitar. The space will be tuned and actuated by Max Lorenzen.
Sine waves by Max Lorenzen
Bob Hoffnar will play pedalsteel
Guest artists pending
Pedal steel guitarist Bob Hoffnar relocated to Austin from NYC in 2009 and has since become a major contributor to Austin’s cultural landscape. Originally from Silver Springs, Maryland, Hoffnar graduated from Purchase Conservatory of Music in 1998 with a BFA in Composition that included private studies with Richard Cameron Wolf. Further private studies included time with such musical luminaries as Lamonte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, and Ernest Tubb’s steel player Buddy Charleton. Bob currently runs Liminal Sound Series — a live concert performance series dedicated to the commissioning of new works and collaborations between visionary composers and Austin-based musicians and performers.
Recent Commissions:
- Soundtrack for Buster Keaton’s “My Wife's Relations” performed live at the Paramount Theater Austin, TX
- Music for Stuart Hyatt’s “Field Works, Glen Rose Formation”
- “Mr Salamander #3”, using the Hayward Tuning Vine
- Soundtrack for Edison’s Frankenstein performed live at The Blanton Museum Austin, TX
Current ongoing collaborations and projects include:
- Improvisations with Janie Cowan
- Composer Robin Hayward (Berlin)
- Spatial Prismatic Active Listening: a sound sculpture system developed with Max Lorenzen - Projects, workshops and new commissions at Princeton University, 2020
Max Lorenzen is an audio engineer in Lockhart, TX where he runs the mixing and mastering studio, Rare Ear. Originally from Summersville, West Virginia, he graduated from American University in 2009 with a BA in Audio Production. Since moving to Central Texas in 2013, Max has become a fixture in the Austin recording community. Engineering alongside producers Danny Reisch, Jim Eno, Steve Berlin, David Boyle, Chico Jones and Bob Hoffnar. His engineering, mixing, and mastering credits span across genres which include recordings by Brown Whörnet, Christeene, Tele Novella, The Octopus Project, Star Parks, Shearwater, Spoon, Marmalakes, Mike and the Moonpies, and Pure X. Max also produces experimental electronic music as Max Religion.