Rich O'Donnell
drummer/electric dreamer
•BRUXISM, SeeSaw Drumming + Kyma, Schlafly Tap Room, 2/25/2016
•Parabolic Dance played on 4 tympani bowls, 2 metal, 2 fiberglass with transducers at base.
Same sound played thru each bowl produces spacial panning and shimmerng harmonics
not possible with speakers. Part of INSIDE/OUTSIDE at HEARding Cats Kerr Foundation STL 3/13
video by Brett Underwood.
•SeeSaw drumming at Philip Gelb's In the Mood for Food Series, Oakland CA 2011
•Junk Yard Drummer for X-P.O.E Anima(l) with Kelsey LaPointe at Lemp Historic Brewery (5/0
•Chinese Culture Days Chinese music instrument exhibit at Missouri Botanical Garden (5/02)
•Termite Music, installation/performance environment with large wood sails & electronic feedback sourced by its surroundings...if a termite could hear! with Anna Lum (6 Washington University Gallery of Art/New Music Circle
•Shadow Dancing, laser installation at Washington University Gallery of Art (10/93) a laser controlled
musical instrument, audience activated.
•Numbers 1 & 2 with Mike Murphy and Recent Video Sculpture by Nam June Paik at The Forum (01/92)
•Fire and Ice, 3 major pieces for electronics, lights and George Greenamyer's ice sculpture at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12/90,12/91,12/92)
•Black Horn with Blane DeSt.Croix, installation artist and Anne Patz, choreographer at The Forum (1990)
•Trephonia, sound sculpture with Bill Severson & Sandy Schultz, installed in Plano, TX (1988)
•Sun Worshipper too, an outdoor sunlight controlled installation, stereo electronic music instrument, broadcasting sound through two wind torqued copper sails active for 6 months at Grand Blvd. and Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO (1984)
•Sun Worshipper sunlight controlled electronic instrument, outdoor environmental piece at Missouri Botanical Garden (7/82)
•Midnight Carnival Large multimedia event from 10 pm till 2 am in a 24 block area of downtown St. Louis, created and produced by O’Donnell as part of New Music Circle’s BHAM celebration; 80 –100K people attended. Electronic music by LeJaren Hiller (7/3-4/76)
•No Single Thing Abides an environment of videospace projections and electronic music, Tom Hamiltonand O’Donnell music; Dave Sanders and Morey Gers video. (6/15-7/4/76)
past installations • solos •