Gallery Crawl

Site and Sound -- February 2009

View Gallery Crawl video featuring the February 2009 installation of Bill Fontana's Spiraling Echoes at San Francisco City Hall and an interview with art collector Robert Shimshak, whose collection of musical scores anchors New Langton Arts' Every Sound You Can Imagine exhibition.

In February 2009, Gallery Crawl visits with Bill Fontana as he puts the finishing touches on his sound installation Spiraling Echoes, which essentially uses San Francisco City Hall as a musical instrument, shooting ultrasonic beams of bird, underwater and city street sounds off the walls of the building's rotunda. A few blocks away, New Langton Arts, a gallery known for its cultivation of innovative contemporary art, most particularly performance and time-based media, launches Every Sound You Can Imagine, an exhibition of musical scores. Robert Shimshak, the co-curator of the show and the art collector whose work anchors it, explains the connection between musical notation and visual art.

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Featured Exhibitions:

San Francisco City Hall

In February 2009, the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art in City Hall program commissioned Spiraling Echoes, a new piece of sound sculpture by artist Bill Fontana.

New Langton Arts

In February 2009, New Langton Arts launches Every Sound You Can Imagine, an exhibition of musical scores by 70 composers and artists.

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