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Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, Dreyblatt is deputy director of the visual arts section at the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He was Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022. One of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka. His early activities in music and performance included the albums "Nodal Excitation", "Propellers In Love" and the opera project "Who's Who in Central and East Europe 1933”.

Transmission, 2021; Time: Variable 25-35 min.

Amplified upright bass prepared with music wire and mechanical transducer including sine waves tuned in the Dreyblatt tuning system; along with real-time audio processing and software control.

Nodal Excitation, 1979-2022, Time: 20-25 min.

In development since 1979, Nodal Excitation is performed with an amplified upright electric bass prepared with unwound music wire, in order to excite the higher overtones with a percussive rhythmic technique for exciting chords of overtones above the fundamental.