Arnold Dreyblatt is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. In 2007, Dreyblatt is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and is the Vice-Director of the Visual Arts Section. He was Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022. Dreyblatt studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and media art with Woody and Steina Vasulka. 

His artistic practice of the last 30 years has ranged from large staged multi-day performances ("The Memory Projects", 1995-2001), involved installations (such as "From the Archives", 1999; "The Wunderblock", 2000; "Turntable History", 2009) and lenticular wall works (such as "Ephemeris Epigraphica", 2006 and “Writing Cage", 2012) as well as interactive artistic research projects such as “Performing the Black Mountain Archive” (2015) at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art. At the same time he has continued to develop his unique work in composition and music performance.

Playlist :

Arnold Dreyblatt & Paul Panhuysen : Synsonic Batterie (Duo Geloso - Black Truffle - 2022)

Arnold Dreyblatt, The Orchestra Of Excited Strings : Nodal Excitation (Nodal Excitation - Drag City - 2015)

Arnold Dreyblatt And The Orchestra Of Excited Strings : Animal Magnetism (Animal Magnetism - Tzadik - 1995)

Arnold Dreyblatt & Megafaun : Home Hat Placement (Appalachian Excitation - Northern Spy - 2013)

Arnold Dreyblatt : Beginnings (Who's Who In Central & East Europe 1933 - Tzadik - 2010)

Arnold Dreyblatt And The Orchestra Of Excited Strings : Odd & Even (Propellers In Love - Künstlerhaus Bethanien  - 1986)

Arnold Dreyblatt, The Orchestra Of Excited Strings : Meantime (The Adding Machine - Cantaloupe Music - 2002)

Arnold Dreyblatt @ les ateliers claus 10-09-2019 © Laurent Orseau