Visible Music (The Score as a Sore to be Rubbed)

William Hellermann is a composer who was based in New York City from 1962 to 1991 who now lives in upstate New York. His visual scores and music sculptures have been exhibited widely, including at The Kitchen, PS1, The Drawing Center, Franklin Furnace, Emily Harvey Gallery, as well as the Soundings show at the Neuberger Museum, the Synesthesia show at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Minimalismo show at the Museo Reina Sofia, and most recently in Notations 21: Breaking the Boundaries at the Chelsea Art Museum. He is currently co-director of The DownTown Ensemble and Editor of The Calendar for New Music. Hellermann has been a performing member of the Sounds out of Silent Spaces group and the Medicine Show Theater Ensemble. He has been curator of sound at PS1 and of performances at the Alternative Museum and The Clocktower. In addition, he curated the first show devoted to sound art, The Sound Art Show at the Sculpture Center, in 1983. Among the composer's many awards is the Prix de Rome at the American Academy.