Join us for snacks, beverages, and the premiere of our dynamic winter show. The Exhibition runs through March 21, 2026.

A View from Inside: David Tudor at 100 celebrates the life, work, and legacy of David Tudor (1926–1996), a Philadelphia-born pioneer of experimental music and sound art. Tudor transformed the possibilities of sound by merging audio technology, tone generators, signal processors, loudspeakers, and electric circuits into instruments of radical invention.


Tudor first gained prominence in the early 1950s as a virtuoso pianist, championing new works by John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. By the 1960s, he shifted from performance at the keyboard to creating live electronic compositions. His projects pushed the boundaries of art and technology: Bandoneon! at Experiments in Art and Technology’s 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering (1966); the immersive sound installation for the Pepsi Pavilion at the 1970 Osaka World Expo; and Rainforest IV(1973), a seminal work in which found objects became both sound sources and resonators, realized in collaboration with Composers Inside Electronics. From 1953 until his death, Tudor worked closely with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and in the 1990s he collaborated with engineers at Intel on the Neural Network Synthesizer, a technology that anticipated current AI systems by decades.

Curated by You Nakai and Dustin Hurt.

Bowerbird is pleased to present a free screening of Bandoneon! (a combine), a documentary about David Tudor’s groundbreaking 1966 performance, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Julie Martin.

Bandoneon! was Tudor’s first full concert work as a composer, performed as part of 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering—a legendary collaboration between ten New York artists and thirty engineers from Bell Telephone Laboratories. Tudor played the bandoneon as input into a complex sound and visual modification system that moved sound between speakers and controlled lights and video images, animating the entire 69th Regiment Armory space. This documentary reconstructs the original performance through archival film and vintage photographs, featuring interviews with the performers, engineers, and Tudor’s fellow composers. The film offers rare insight into one of the most ambitious experiments in live electronic performance and interdisciplinary collaboration of the 1960s. Julie Martin, who directed the film and co-founded Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) with Billy Klüver, will discuss the project and answer questions following the screening.

Our first-year dance ensemble students delve into dynamic and heartfelt movement, presenting work that captivates and inspires. This concert will showcase choreography from Valerie Ifill and Sydney Donovan, alongside student artists, spanning a diverse range of dance styles.   

See an exciting evening of dance featuring new works from Dr. Miriam Giguere, Jennifer Morley, Kareem Goodwin, and Alexis Curiel, alongside student choreographers. This concert honors the creativity and bold exploration of both emerging and established artists, using expressive movement to forge powerful connections between performance and audience. 

9:30 am Registration/Check in

"Resonance and Renewal: A Celebration in Sound" 
As winter settles in, the Drexel Concert Band offers an invigorating program of works that reflect on legacy, innovation, and the shared experience of live music. This concert showcases the ensemble’s versatility through masterworks and contemporary gems that celebrate the enduring vitality of the wind band tradition. 

Join us for the Chamber Strings Winter Concert at the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, please reserve your tickets here.

rough a grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Culture, The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery present exhibit Tudor (1926 – 1996) - A View from Inside: David Tudor will perform as part of this exhibit

Join us for the Percussion Ensemble Winter Concert at the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here. 

Join us for the Fusion Band & Rock Ensemble Winter Concert at the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, register for tickets here.

Join us for the Mediterranean Ensemble Winter Concert at the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.