Trimpin’s Sextet for Laptop Percussion

November 7-11, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
November 12, 7:00 am – 1:00 pm

One Allen Center

Trimpin’s Sextet for Laptop Percussion uses six of the artist’s clunky, defunct Apple laptops, outfitted with wooden drumsticks, in a pay-to-play installation that uses electronics to control the analog sounds of drumsticks.

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!

(theater ticket required for access)

See Trimpin: The Sound of Invention on Saturday, November 12, at 4:00 PM in Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24.

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.