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A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100

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        Happening NowA View From Inside: David Tudor at 100 Exhibition
Coming UpForest Speech and Piano: Amy Williams (piano) and Composers Inside Electronics
Coming UpTudor works for Live Electronics: Composers Inside Electronics
Coming UpCurating David Tudor: Tudor Talk (Online) with Nancy Perloff and Ron Kuivila
Coming UpRainforest & Composers Inside Electronics: Tudor Talk (Online) with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein
Coming UpDavid Tudor at Gate Hill: Tudor Talk (Online) with Mark Davenport
Coming UpPerforming with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Tudor Talk (Online) with Cunningham audio engineers

Recipient

Grant Year 2024

Grant Amount $120,000

Status Forthcoming

Updated January 12, 2026

A retrospective surveys the work of Philadelphia-born composer, performer, and sound artist David Tudor (1926–1996) through an exhibition, installations, performances, and film screenings. Tudor first rose to prominence in the early 1950s as a pianist. He began collaborating frequently with avant-garde artists like John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Pauline Oliveros, and Yoko Ono, eventually shifting away from piano performance to focus on live electronics, employing emergent technologies like tone generators and signal processors. Tudor worked with computer engineers to pioneer early AI tools for music. The project gathers Tudor’s living collaborators to perform his work, complete unfinished projects, and create new scholarship on the artist’s life and career.

The total grant amount represents project funding plus an additional 20% in unrestricted general operating support.

Primary EventsEvents & Exhibitions