Arnold Dreyblatt – Waterworks 2024

Arnold Dreyblatt, live at the Waterworks 2024 festival in Boston, Massachusetts, April 26, 2024

Arnold Dreyblatt is an American media artist and composer who has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. One of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka. He has charted his own unique course in composition and music performance, inventing a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning. Often characterized as one of the more rock-oriented of the American minimalists, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground base of fans for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his "Orchestra of Excited Strings".

Video: Wenhua Shi and Nick Stevens
Video Editing: Wenhua Shi
Audio recording & mix: Matthew Azevedo

Presented by Non-Event with the support of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, WZBC, Newton Cultural Council, Boston Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Goethe-Institut Boston, Oedipus Foundation, Café Fixe, Streetcar Beer & Wine, and Digital Soup.