SIGHT + SOUND

 SIGHT+SOUND ACTIVITIES WILL BE HELD IN THE BARN


elliot bergman

“peace bells”

Elliot Bergman will create a site-specific installation of his peace bells and sound sculptures in the chapel. For the past few years, Bergman has been melting down guns and bullet casings and transforming them into peace bells or sound vessels. He will be performing on these instruments with long-time collaborator Erik Hall. The music created ranges from meditative and trance-like, to a raucous, maximalist, gamelan-inspired freak out.

Elliot Bergman is a musician and visual artist living in Los Angeles. Since studying jazz, composition, and gamelan music at the University of Michigan, he has been an active part of the creative music scenes in Brooklyn and Chicago, while touring extensively with groups including Wild Belle, NOMO, Iron and Wine, and His Name is Alive. Elliot’s musical and visual art practices are uniquely intertwined: he often builds the instruments that form the basis for many of the compositions in Wild Belle and NOMO—electrified variations on the African mbira. Indulging his interest in metal work, he has been producing bronze sound vessels and sound sculptures since 2012.

elliot-bergman.com @elliotbergman

PERFORMANCES SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1PM & 3PM