South Beach Billiards
for Secession Gallery
San Francisco, CA
1992
WORKS
San Jose, CA 1993
Wood and metal instruments made with billiard balls and cue sticks.
Installation/performance designed for South Beach Billiards in San Francisco for “Pool”, a performance event sponsored by Secession Gallery. This work consisted of both composed and improvisational music involving live and recorded acoustic instruments and sound sculptures.
![Judith and Opie Bellas activate 8-foot tall palo de lluvias (rain sticks)](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/8-ball-obligatto-sbcs-cols-cropped.jpg)
![Judith plays the wood sound column in the foreground, other performers are in the distance](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-sb-wide.jpg)
![Judith plays the cubular bells: cue sticks hung in a row from a long 2x4](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-c-bells.jpg)
!["xylophone" and triangle in performance](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-rack.jpg)
![Cubular bells: cue sticks hung in a row from a long 2x4](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-wks-c-bells.jpg)
![Palo de lluvia (rain stick): plywood, dowels, plexiglas, & billiard balls mounted to rock or spin.](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-sbs-colmn.jpg)
![Palo de lluvia (rain stick) being rocked by Judith during the performance](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/8-ball-obligatto-wks-colmn-cropped.jpg)
![Performers on stage at WORKS showing the layout of the sound sculptures and an African drum.](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/8ballwkswide-find-orig-cropped2.jpg)
![the scene after the performance](https://www.judithblankman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/8-ball-obbligato-wks-jam.jpg)