Thadeus Frazier-Reed: Oud
Oud is an exhibition of 2025–26 Artist-in-Residence Thadeus Frazier-Reed's Starfield system—an array of small sound and light objects suspended from the ceiling of the gallery space.
Each object makes its own localized sound, amplified through various materials, like wood and metal and is independently controlled by an autonomous computer-controlled system allowing for dynamic exploration of timbre, spatialization, and movement across the field of sound making devices. The audience is invited to wander around the exhibition space, making choices about their point of view as the installation performs itself in real-time.
Join us for an artist performance and talk on Friday, Jan. 9.
Exhibition hours:
Sat., Jan. 10, noon-5pm
Sun., Jan. 11, noon-5pm
Each object makes its own localized sound, amplified through various materials, like wood and metal and is independently controlled by an autonomous computer-controlled system allowing for dynamic exploration of timbre, spatialization, and movement across the field of sound making devices. The audience is invited to wander around the exhibition space, making choices about their point of view as the installation performs itself in real-time.
Join us for an artist performance and talk on Friday, Jan. 9.
Exhibition hours:
Sat., Jan. 10, noon-5pm
Sun., Jan. 11, noon-5pm
Thadeus Frazier-Reed
Thadeus Frazier-Reed is a composer, instrument designer, and creative technologist exploring the effects of movement, dynamic and stochastic processes, error, and instrument form on sound creation. He is interested in the ways in which the time, place, and audience change the context and content of a composition and uses these variables to explore emergent behavior of complex systems with simple rules. He views each new instrument design as an opportunity to discover the unique voice of that instrument.