Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt is an American media artist and composer. He studied with the Vasulkas when they taught at the University at Buffalo, and Steina claims him as her first student. In addition to the Vasulkas, he studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier. 

His artistic practice of the last forty years has ranged from media installations, public art works, and interactive artistic research projects. Dreyblatt's artworks often explore themes of memory and history, and his engagement with archival materials is both a method and a subject of his creative practice. His work frequently involves the manipulation of archival documents, lists, and other historical artifacts, which he recontextualizes to highlight the layers of meaning embedded within them in multidimensional installations. 

At the same time, Dreyblatt has continued to develop his unique work in composition and music performance. Known for his innovative approach to composition and sound, Dreyblatt's compositional process is deeply rooted in the exploration of the harmonic series. His music employs his own reduced version of just intonation, which involves tuning intervals only to pure ratios of the harmonic series, creating a unique harmonic landscape which deviates from traditional systems. He has exhibited and performed in numerous galleries, museums, and public spaces. 

Dreyblatt has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984, where he is currently the Vice-Director of the Visual Arts Section of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and was Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022.