Join curator Dustin Hurt and Ron Kuivila for a guided tour through the archival materials, collaborative networks, and historical traces that shape David Tudor: A View From Inside. The tour examines how photographs, programs, letters, and recordings situate Tudor's practice within specific times, places, and relationships. Moving through the gallery's timeline, Hurt will discuss how…
Starting in the mid-1960s, David Tudor made up a homemade electronic music by following his ears and his all-absorbing mind. He wanted new instruments and began a unique self-education which embraced Brazilian hobby mags, engineering journals, and countless trips to junk surplus outlets. His musical methods were as idiosyncratic as the tools he constructed. This…
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,…
David Tudor: A View From Inside celebrates the life, work, and legacy of David Tudor (1926–1996), a Philadelphia-born pioneer of experimental music and sound art, on the centenary of his birth in 2026. Over the course of his career, Tudor treated sound not as something merely to be played, but as something to be set…