Joyful Noise Presents: Molten Soundscapes

Molten glass, at its core, is memory made physical — every movement at the bench, every vibration in the room, every shift in mood absorbed and held in the hardening material. That philosophy, developed by glassblower and conceptual artist Mark Mitsuda, holds that you cannot make a beautiful object without moving beautifully at every step in between. Presented by Joyful Noise, Molten Soundscapes takes that idea as its premise: a live improvisation by Patrick Shiroishi, Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, and Shahzad Ismaily performed alongside live glassblowing by Matthew Cummings, the music and the sculpture each shaping and responding to the other in real time. The resulting work — pressed not into vinyl but into molten glass — captures not just the sound, but the temperature of the moment.