Douglas Henderson Music for 100 Carpenters at The Boiler, Pierogi Gallery.

Music for 100 Carpenters is a theatrical surround sound work enlisting 100 skilled and unskilled workers. Prying at Stockhausens line between rhythm and timbre, 100 hammers, 100 sawhorses and some 10,000 nails of varying sizes are brought to bear. Under the guidance of a job supervisor hundreds of hammer blows become waves of tonal murmur threaded with rustlings of nails in bags and occasional snarls of righteous indignation. Toolbelts, sweat and lunchboxes are part of the score. The sensual reality of the piece finally evades the meanings and structures it invokes.

Douglas Henderson, 2009: 

Brooklyn and Berlin-based sound artist Douglas Henderson has an extensive history in installation, performance and music composition. He has presented works at the Whitney Museum at Altria, Dance Theater Workshop, and PS122 in New York and at Inventionen and daadgalerie in Berlin, among many others. Recent awards include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Individual Artist grant and the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin residency. He received his PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University and recently chaired the Sound Art Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has collaborated for many years with choreographers including Meg Stuart and DD Dorvillier and received a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award. His sound sculptures and installations have been exhibited in solo and group shows from New York City to Seoul, South Korea. His current work, Music for 100 Carpenters, is being generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Performance (MAP) fund. This exhibition is co-curated by David Scher with assistance from Roulette, Studio 40 and Studio G; video by Jason Cacioppo.

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