Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt (born 1953) is an American composer, performance artist and visual artist from the second generation of New York minimal composers. His musical compositions are usually based on just intonation harmonics that he performs by a bowing technique he developed for his modified double bass and other modified and conventional instruments which he specially tunes. In his installations, performances and media works, Dreyblatt creates complex textual and spatial metaphors for memory which serves as a media discourse on recollection and the archive. His installations, public artworks and performances have been exhibited and staged extensively in Europe. Biography Arnold Dreyblatt was born in 1953 in New York City. His mother, Lucille Wallenrod (1918–1998), was a painter. Dreyblatt started his studies at Wesleyan University in the 1970s. He transferred to the Center for Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young and Alvin Lucier (at Wesleyan University), and new media art with Steina and Woody Vasulka. Dreyblatt originally used a steady pulse provided by the bowing motion on his double bass (placing his music in the