Maria Finkelmeier is a percussionist, composer, new media artist, and Associate Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship at Berklee College of Music. She transformed Fenway Park into a percussive playground and turned the Roebling Bridge into a sound and light instrument. She's used AI to investigate gender bias through music and performed at iconic global venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Her cutting-edge work has been featured in the Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, and on WGBH and CBS, among others. She is the Founder of experimental music, art, and technology studio, MF Dynamics, and is also a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Allison Tanenhaus' work has been showcased in 26 countries via installations, festivals, music videos, live performances, and guerrilla street art. Highlights include the ICA Store at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Museum of Science Planetarium, “Empowered Women Empower Women,” and the Alternative Power 100 by shesaid.so and Patreon, among others.
What’s the frequency of our city? What’s your daily rhythm? Are we all on the same wavelength, living in sync in the neighborhoods we call home?
FREQUENCIES is a crowdsourced video mural featuring the sights and sounds of a community, sourced directly from the people who call it home. Filtered through and remixed by Allison Tanenhaus (glitch artist) and Maria Finkelmeier (sound artist), the result becomes a joyful, celebratory experience lifting up the everyday beauty of our surroundings.