Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Sonic Shadows
- Artist name
-
Bill Fontana
- Date created
- 2010
- Classification
- installation
- Medium
- sound sculpture [twelve-channel live sound installation with ten accelerometers, eight loudspeakers, four ultrasonic emitters on pan-tilt heads]
- Dimensions
- dimensions variable
- Date acquired
- 2011
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Commissioned by the San Francsico Museum of Modern Art Purchase through a gift of Nancy and Steven Oliver, Wendy Webster and Stuart Davidson, and the Accessions Committee Fund - Copyright
- © Bill Fontana
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2011.227
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
As he creates his unique sound sculptures, artist Bill Fontana finds inspiration in his physical setting and the philosophies of musical composition and found art.
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