Join curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt for a guided tour of David Tudor: A View From Inside, exploring the exhibition’s guiding principles, curatorial approach, and installation design.
Nakai and Hurt will lead visitors through the gallery to discuss how they’ve approached presenting Tudor’s practice—the decisions behind grouping instruments, displaying circuit diagrams alongside performance documentation, and contextualizing Tudor’s work within broader histories of experimental music, collaborative art-making, and electronic sound. The curators will share insights into the process of working with nearly 100 electronic instruments and components, as well as the challenges and discoveries that shaped the exhibition.

The tour will address key themes including Tudor’s methodology of patient calibration and material listening, his dissolution of traditional roles between performer and composer, and the exhibition’s effort to make visible the often-hidden labor of building, testing, and maintaining performance systems.
Free admission. No registration required.

This event is part of A VIEW FROM INSIDE: DAVID TUDOR AT 100, an exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery from January 15 to March 21, 2026.

Major support for A View from Inside has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
with additional support from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.