15th annual interactive audio arts festival
The Goethe-Institut Washington and Austrian Cultural Forum Washington support the visit of thereminist and composer
Dorit Chrysler for a workshop at the Hirshhorn Museum during the Sound Scene Festival.
About the Festival
Sound Scene is an annual, free, and interactive audio arts festival organized by the DC Listening Lounge, an audio collective of Washington, DC-based sound artists and enthusiasts. Sound Scene celebrates sound through audio art installations, live performances of dance, music, and spoken word, or small group workshops. Since 2016, Sound Scene has been hosted by the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and is presented as a two-day full museum takeover.
About the Artist
Dorit Chrysler was born in Graz, Austria, and resides in Berlin and New York. She is a composer, sound artist, and theremin virtuoso. Chrysler is co-founder of the New York Theremin Society and founded Dame Electric Festival, which focuses on female pioneers of electronic music. Since her first encounter with the theremin, Chrysler has mastered the instrument, and is considered one of the pioneers of its popularization, with numerous international performances and collaborations in art and media.
In addition to a number of record releases, Chrysler creates video art and music for film, TV, and theater. She has performed several times with the San Francisco Symphony, as well as in venues such as Lincoln Center and the Vienna Konzerthaus. Commissioned works include compositions for the Venice Biennale, MoMA, Knightsbridge Foundation, Paris Cultural Ministry, Wiener Festwochen, and Steirischer Herbst. Her soundscapes are part of video works in collections at the Guggenheim, Brooklyn, and Louisiana Museums. In 2021, Chrysler received a sound commission from MoMA. Her film work includes "HBO: Going Clear" and composing the soundtrack of "M" for David Schalko. During her residencies at Pionierworks, Brooklyn, and the Gaite Lyrique in Paris, Chrysler founded "L'Ecole Theremine," an international platform for learning the theremin.
About Dorit's Workshop
Trust in your wishes. They have more strength than you may realize. Several theremin instruments will interact with the "Wish Tree" - an installation by Yoko Ono. Positioned in the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden, the movement of the sculpture's tree branches and hanging paper sheets containing wishes, will be translated into sound, creating a sonic dialogue between natural elements, hope, sculpture and electromagnetic fields.
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