SoundSpace! An interview with musician Steve Parker
On the heels of a very successful presentation of Musicircus, part of The Blanton’s SoundSpace music series, Aimee Chang, Manager of Public Programs, sits down to talk with Steve Parker, organizer of...
View ArticleIt’s Bach: A Popular Program Returns in 2013
As the Blanton’s PR and Marketing Coordinator, I have the privilege of working with many different people across the museum and out in the community to promote our programs and exhibitions. A native...
View ArticlePart 1: SoundSpace at the Blanton Performer Profiles
A host of creative-types and musicians from all corners of Austin’s artistic community brought together by organizer Steven Parker, a Blanton artist in residence, collaborate on SoundSpace, a popular...
View ArticlePart 2: SoundSpace at the Blanton Performer Profiles
Austin360.com recently called SoundSpace at the Blanton “the most successful new music event in the city.” The fifth installment of the popular music series, SoundSpace: Post-Classical on Sunday, March...
View ArticleThe Museum as a Site for Creativity
Museums can be locations for inspiration and creation. Of course we all know that museums function as repositories for creative works from decades and centuries ago, but at the Blanton, we try to...
View ArticleLook, Listen, Learn..The Blanton’s New Midday Music Series
What do two Bach cantatas have to do with a plate of grapes? This Tuesday at noon, for the inaugural performance of the Blanton’s Midday Music Series, we will be taking some time to look—and to...
View ArticleMusic In the Time of Maximilian I
On Thursday, November 21st, Sara Hessel, Music Director at Classical 89.5 KMFA and host and producer of their Ancient Voices program, will give a Perspectives Gallery Talk on music in the age of...
View ArticleA musical and visual experience in “The Nearest Air”
Music is a great source of inspiration for artist Waltercio Caldas, and with it he encourages us to engage with his current exhibition at the Blanton in a whole new way. The artist provided the museum...
View ArticleMeet the Musicians of SoundSpace
This Sunday at 2pm, the Blanton is excited to present SoundSpace, a visual and sonic experience with musical performances throughout the museum. In a recent article in the Austin American-Statesman,...
View ArticleSummer Midday Music Series at the Blanton
To kick off our summer Midday Music Series, Kress Interpretive Fellow Natalie Zeldin provides a look at what to expect from this monthly musical event. Picture the scene: It’s a Tuesday afternoon and...
View ArticleAn Interview with Peter Stopschinski, curator of Beat the Rush
Composer and musician Peter Stopschinski is the current curator of Beat the Rush, the Blanton’s innovative monthly music series held as part of Third Thursday programming. In a recent interview with...
View ArticleMeet the Musicians of SoundSpace: Sound Construction
This Sunday at 2pm, the Blanton is excited to present the eighth installment of SoundSpace, an immersive visual and sonic experience with musical performances throughout the museum. In a recent article...
View ArticleTo Be Young, Gifted and Black: The Civil Rights Legacy of Nina Simone
They called her the “High Priestess of Soul.” Her voice was so rich, so anguished, and hypnotic that she could fill you—completely overwhelm you—with the spirit of pride and unparalleled struggle....
View ArticleMusic for Meatyard
The Blanton’s award-winning music series, SoundSpace, returns this Sunday with its latest installment, SoundSpace: Musical Outsiders. This program features several new works of music that have been...
View ArticleListening to Everything All the Time: The Music of Pauline Oliveros
What are you listening to right now? Doom metal? Beethoven’s Fifth? Afro-Cuban hip-hop? Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” on repeat? There’s no single right answer to this question, but there is a wrong...
View ArticleBring Your Own Boombox: Mobile Music at the Blanton
Kids born in the 21st century won’t remember a time when music wasn’t mobile—a time when we encountered music almost exclusively through objects in our living rooms. But the rise of the boombox in the...
View ArticleSoft on the verses, loud on the choruses: The Blanton Mixtape Project by the...
For those just joining us: as part of our current exhibition Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, we asked folks to send us playlists of their favorite 90s jams, so we could record them onto cassette...
View ArticleSoundSpace: In Memoriam
The avant-garde French composer Pierre Boulez died on January 5 of this year. He was 90 years old, and had retired from public life, so while many of us admired his innovative electronic music, as well...
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