Trimpin’s Mini-Klompen

November 8-12, 10 am – midnight

Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 Lobby

(theater ticket required for access)

This installation by Trimpin consists of dozens of wooden clogs with electric hammers in each one. The piece is a percussion sculpture that plays scores composed on a computer by the artist.

A sound sculptor, composer, engineer and inventor, Trimpin has been hailed in New York’s Village Voice as “a genius at circuitry and machinery as well as acoustics and musical structure [who] manufactures orchestras that play themselves.” A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional instruments, he has developed ways of playing everything from giant marimbas to stacks of electric guitars via computer.

In 1997, Trimpin received both a MacArthur “Genius” Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his creative investigations of acoustic music in spatial relationship.

Play the Mini-Klompen with Trimpin!

Saturday, November 12, 3:00-4:00 PM and 6:00-6:30 PM, Edwards Grand Palace Lobby

Before and after the 4:00 PM screening of the feature film, Trimpin: The Sound of Invention!, the artist Trimpin will demonstrate the Mini-Klompen installation (part of the festival’s Cinema on the Verge series), a percussion sculpture made of dozens of wooden clogs. He will also talk about and answer questions about his “Sextet for Laptop Percussion” (on view at One Allen Center November 7-11) and other inventions seen in the documentary about his work.