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New Langton Arts

February 5 - March 1, 2009

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1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Every Sound You Can Imagine Karlheinz Stockhausen, Form Scheme from Cosmic Pulses 2006-2007
Member and Press Preview: Thursday, February 5, 6-7pm Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 7-9pm (admission free) Performance schedule and ticket information to be announced at www.newlangtonarts.org Features 85 works by 70 composers and artists including: William Basinski, Wallace Berman, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Bruce Conner, Alvin Curran, Paul Dresher, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Ryoji Ikeda, György Ligeti, Christian Marclay, Barry McGee, Phill Niblock, Carsten Nikolai, Raster-Noton, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Steve Roden, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick, Miko Vainio, Stephen Vitiello, Iannis Xenakis, and many more. Every Sound You Can Imagine at New Langton Arts samples a wide array of notational strategies and explores the cross-fertilization between musicians and visual artists, revealing the vital connections between experimental sound art and cutting-edge visual art. In addition, Langton presents rare and never-before-heard tapes from its archive by musicians, performers, poets, and visual artists, some of whom are also featured in the exhibition, including Alvin Curran, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Wadada Leo Smith. The exhibition will also include an accompanying program of performance and selected videos. Schedule and ticket information will be posted on wwww.newlangtonarts.org as it becomes available and will also be announced through Langton's email list. The exhibition is guest curated by Christoph Cox and collector Robert Shimshak. Christoph Cox is a critic, theorist, and curator of art and music who writes regularly in Artforum. Every Sound You Can Imagine was organized and shown at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.