Press & Events

Where people are talking about the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments:

Soundproof, ABC Radio National (a Just Radio production) (Fall 2016)

Center for New Music in San Francisco: Window Gallery exhibit, “Imaginary Mechanical Instruments” (July-August 2016)

An exhibit of historical and contemporary prints, curated by Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson. With images dating from 1618-1995, the variety of pure inventive genius on display includes excellent reproductions of JJ Grandville, Robert Fludd, and Johann Gottlob Kruger. Images from Experimental Musical Instruments Journal including Cloud 8 Archives by Hal Ramel contribute more contemporary works of fictional acoustic fantasy.

Phox Pop Magazine: “The wonderful history of made-up musical contraptions” (August 2016)

Public Domain Review: Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson, “Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments” (July 2015)

Wired Magazine: Bruce Sterling, “Who Can’t Like It?” (Dec 2015)

Faena Aleph: “The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters, which is also true in the case of music” (Aug 2015)

Obscura Magazine: Jonathan Poh, “The Joys and Wonders of ‘Fictaphones'”

Creativiteach: “Hearing the Sounds in my Brain” (Oct 2015)

Dressing the Air, The Bureau of Sensory Intelligence

Trasdós: Helena, Celdrán, “La ‘torre orquesta’, el ‘piano de gatos’… Instrumentos que nunca existieron” (Mar 2014)