A cello performance in conversation with Trimpin’s Ambiente432
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
Video Filmed By: Kristin Becker
Edited By: Sabrina Hoenes
Special Thanks To: Ruth Boden, Associate Professor, School of Music
The Art & Healing Program is a partnership between the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and Pullman Regional Hospital
Dr. Ruth Boden is an Associate Professor in the School of Music at Washington State University where she teaches cello, bass, music theory and coordinates the chamber music program. Dr. Boden holds a B.M. and M.M. in cello performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a D.M.A. from the University of Alabama.
Trimpin’s Ambiente432 is a sound sculpture comprised of 12 motion-responsive resonator horns suspended from the ceiling and organized in strategic configurations, Ambiente432 is tuned precisely to 432Hz. Known as Verdi’s ‘A’, this vibration frequency recurs in the tuning of ancient Tibetan singing bowls, Stradivarius instruments, and 20th century physicist W. O. Schumann calculated the Earth’s rhythms at a cycle close to the fundamental frequency of 432Hz.