Bill Fontana
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Within Vinony's link graph, Bill Fontana is referenced by 22 other articles, and connects out to sound art, New York City and music.
Vinony files it under 1947 births, 20th-century American classical composers and 20th-century American male composers.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1947
- Works
- 1
Top works
- West Coast visions
- Klangskulpturen, Metropolis Köln
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1945-10-28
- Active to
- 2020-08-06
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 735
- Total plays
- 3,842
Tags
Bill Fontana (born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 25, 1947) is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art. Fontana attended New School for Social Research in New York and studied both music and philosophy. He traveled to Australia, and also stayed in Japan and Germany composing. Fontana began writing sound sculptures in 1976. In a career spanning 30 years, Fontana’s sound sculptures use the urban environment as a living source of musical information <a href="https://www.last.f
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Family name
- Fontana
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- The New School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- documenta 8
- Field of work
- sound art
- Official website
- resoundings.org
- Image
- Prix Ars Electronical 2013 21 Bill Fontana.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1947-01-01
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- has works in the collection
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Bill Fontana, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
