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San Francisco Design

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Cleveland, OH

Posted:

October 04, 2012

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BILL FONTANA

Tel 415-***-****, Fax 415-***-****

Email: abox85@r.postjobfree.com

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, 1947

Resides: San Francisco

Education: New School for Social Research, New York, B.A. 1970

Cleveland Institute of Music, 1967

John Carroll University, Cleveland, 1965-67

Awards: Prix Ars Electronica, 2009, Linz, Golden Nica Award in the Digiital Music Category

Fellowships: Y Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant, 2007

Y Artadia 2005 San Francisco Bay Area Award

Y Research Fellowship,Arts Council of England, 2004-2005

Y Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1990-91

Y John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1986-87

Y US/Japan Fellowship, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, 1985-86

Y Berliner K nstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1983-84

Y Composers Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979

Web Site: www.resoundings.org

Teaching: University of Birmingham, UK, Department of Electro-Acoustic Music, 2004-2005

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne ( 2000 to 2003)

San Francisco Art Institute, 1995-1997

Sorbonne, Paris (1994-95)

Gallery: Haunch of Venison, London

Selected Commissions and Sound Sculptures:

a Tyne Soundings, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art and Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, 2009

a Spiraling Echoes, San Francisco Art Commission, 2009

a Speeds ot Time, Tate Britain, London, 2008

a Objective Sound, Western Bridge, Seattle, 2007

a Panoramic Echoes, Madison Square Park, New York, 2007

a Harmonic Bridge, Tate Modern, London, 2006

a Sound Lines, Dark Arches in Leeds, 2005

a Speeds of Tiime, Palace of Westminster, London, 2004

a Primal Soundings, Leeds City Gallery and Contemporary Art Society, 2004

a Speeds of Time, BBC, London, 2003

a Falling Echoes, Creative Time, New York, 2002

a Acoustical Visions of Venice, 48th Venice Biennale, 1999

a Wave Memories, Trafalgar Square, National Maritime Museum, London, 1999

a Time Fountain, Fundaci Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, & Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1995

a Sound Island, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1994

a Soundbridge Cologne - Kyoto, 1993 - simultaneously installed in Cologne and Kyoto at the Museum Ludwig and National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto

a Vertical Water, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991

a Landscape Soundings, Vienna Festival, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1990

a Sound Sculptures through the Golden Gate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1987

a Entfernte Z ge (Distant Trains), Berliner K nstlerprogramm des DAAD, West Berlin, 1984

a Oscillating Steel Grids along the Brooklyn Bridge, World Trade Center and Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1983

a Sound Recycling Sculpture, Akademie der K nste, West Berlin and Mus e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, s1980

a Sound Sculpture with Resonators, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1978

a Kirribilli Wharf, Australian Broadcasting Corp and Sydney Opera House, 1977

Selected Permanent Installations and Works in Collections

a Sonic Passage, San Antonio River Foundation,San Antonio, Texas, 2009

a Acoustic Journey, Cultural Mile Project, Enschede, the Netherlands, 2009

a Pigeon Soundings, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany, 2007

a Objective Sound, Western Bridge, Bill and Ruth True Foundation, Seattle, 2007

a Spiraling Sound Axis, Weatherspoon Art Museum,, University of North Carolina Greeensboro, 2007

a Natural Song Lines, Kent County Courthouse, Providence, Rhode Island, 2007

a Primal Soundings, Leeds City Gallery and Contemporary Art Society, 2004

a Musical Information Network Lyon, Lyon Tramway Line 1, 2001

a Echo Phases, Simeon Properties Emeryville Tech Center, Emeryville, CA 2000

a Wave Phases at Chesil Beach, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K., 1999

a Sound Sculpture with a Sequence of Level Crossings, 1982/1997, digitally remastered eight-channel installation, collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

a Wave Trains, 1996, M lheimer Br cke subway station, Colgone, Germany

a Earth Tones, 1992, Oliver Ranch, Sonoma County, CA

Selected Environmental Sund Recording and Sound Design Projects:

Sound Design for a pavilion designed by Foster and Partners for London Architecture Week in 2008

Sonic Landscaping, NBBJ Design, Seattle, 2004-2006

Ants, Sounds of the Rainforest of Trinidad and Army Ant Habitats, California Academy of Science, 2004

Antigone, Dusseldorf Schauspiel Haus, 2002

Sounds of the British Coast, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England, 1997 to 1999

Sounds of the Old City of Jerusalem, DAAD Berlin, 1995 to 1996

Australian Rainforests, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1988

Farallon Island Soundscapes, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 1988

Sounds of Hawaii, Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu, 1986

Acoustic Journey, An Investigation of Traditional Japanese Sounds on the Verge of Extinction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, 1985

Rainforests of Thailands, Jungle World Exhibit, New York Zoological Society, 1984

Soundscapes, 365 Four Minute Radio Programs on Environmental Sound, National Public Radio, 1982 to 1983

Wild California, Natural Sounds of California, Oakland Museum Natural Sciences Department,

1979

Australian Sound Studies, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1973 to 1978

Selected Bibliography:

Alan Riding, OThe Sound Artist Bill Fontana Amplifies the Tate ModernOs Millennium BridgeO, New York Times and International Herald Tribune, June 20, 2006

J?ran Rudi, OFrom a Musical Point of View, the World is Musical at any Given MomentO an Interview with Bill Fontana, Journal of Organized Sound, Volume 10.2, Cambridge University Press, 2005

Robert Riley, OBill Fontana Speeds of TimeO, Haunch of Venison, London, 2005

Julian Crowley, Interview with Bill Fontana, The Wire, London, April,2004

Mary Blume, "Portrait of Bill Fontana," International Herald Tribune, July 9, 1994

Bill Fontana, The Relocation of Ambient Sound, Leonardo Volume 20 # 2, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1987 and republished in Volume 41, Issue 2, 2008

John Rockwell, "Sound Island," New York Times, June 18, 1994

John Hanhardt, Heidi Grundmann, and Werner Fenz, Landscape Soundings, Vienna Festival, Vienna, 1990

Bill Fontana References:

Sheena Wagstaff

Chief Curator

Tate Modern

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