Sean Russell Hallowell

Sean Russell Hallowell is a composer and video artist from Occidental, California. His time-based art synthesizes experimental techniques developed from hand-built circuitry with a cosmic perspective on music as conduit of physical and metaphysical energy. Multimedia works, concert pieces and fixed-media compositions of his have been premiered at art festivals across the US as well as internationally. His art is inspired by the affordances of outmoded media technologies, such as analog audiotape and cathode-ray tube televisions. Through them, he explores phenomenologies of time in relation to the fourfold arts of number that Medieval European philosophers called the quadrivium — i.e. music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. He holds degrees in music from Brown University (BA) and Columbia University (PhD), where he studied Medieval music theory and composition.