Dale Sherrard provides unique perspective on the art of listening. Dale is an experimental composer, sonic sculptor and sound designer. He teaches sound design as adjunct assistant professor of Sonic Arts in the Media Arts Program at the University of Montana. He holds a master's degree in sound from The Milton Avery Graduate Program at Bard College in New York. His work ranges in various formats including gallery and museum installation, orchestrated performance, avant opera, scores for film and modern dance and studio recordings for playback. Recent works have exhibited in Missoula, Montana and in Austria and also include a series of student orchestra phonography pieces performed locally. Collaborations include work with Italian sculptor and animator Luca Buvoli and as sound designer and co-composer that premiered at The Mattress Factory in Pittsburg, Penn., and was shown at New York's MOMA in January 2009. He has also collaborated with choreographers Ani Weinstein and Anya Cloud in New York.

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