Join us on Wednesday, April 30 from 7-11pm at Mason Exhibitions Arlington for Noise Awareness Day!

Noise Awareness taps into and exposes the unconventional and vibrant side of our student community.  Noise Awareness this year will be in conversation with the current art exhibition on view, Nothing Personal: A Collaboration in Black and White.

AVT 374  (Dr. Thomas Stanley) instructs students in the multiple contexts in which sound art can be presented, including live performance. The gallery welcomes Music Research Strategist Marshall Trammell in workshop-performance process involving first training the attendees in improvised performance and the interpretation of graphical scores. Then students from AVT 374 will use Trammell’s pre-prepared 2’ x 2’ foam-core boards to conduct a blended ensemble featuring Trammell, Dr. Stanley and students (a vocalist and electronic musicians).

Professor Brian Davis' Advanced Sculpture class will present a series of interactive, touch-sensitive cast cement sculptures that respond to human contact with sound. When touched, each object triggers audio—potentially including recordings of its own making and other non-musical sounds—that have been collaboratively composed and layered by students from both Davis’s and Stanley’s classes.