Make Music Day

2024 Listings: Friday, June 21st

Brenda Hutchinson and dailybell

Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist. Through her work with large-scale experiments in socially based improvisations and interactions, Brenda has developed a body of work based on a perspective about performing with the public and non-artists through personal, reciprocal engagement with listening and sounding. In 2008, Brenda began dailybell, an ongoing aspirational project, dedicated to the observation of the sun EVERY time it crosses the horizon and to sharing the awareness of that moment with others through the ringing of bells. These bellringing events have ranged from solo affairs to large public gatherings. As major planetary events, the Solstices and Equinoxes have included the largest groups of people including several previous river crossings from Governors Island (Equinox) to large (pre-Covid) indoor Solstice celebrations (Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA.

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