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Sound for Silents 2026: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2026: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

Free Events

An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

Performances

Sound for Silents 2025: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2025: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Free Thursday Nights

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 3

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 3

Free Thursday Nights

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 2

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 2

Free Thursday Nights

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 1

Art Club: Music Sampling, Night 1

Free Thursday Nights

Sound for Silents 2024: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2024: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Screenings

32 Sounds: Film by Sam Green, Music by JD Samson

32 Sounds: Film by Sam Green, Music by JD Samson

Screenings

Zeitgeist and Friends with special guest George Lewis: The Music of George Lewis

Zeitgeist and Friends with special guest George Lewis: The Music of George Lewis

Performances

Sound for Silents 2021: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2021: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Free Thursday Nights

Films by Man Ray, Music by SQÜRL

Films by Man Ray, Music by SQÜRL

Screenings

Sound for Silents 2019: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Sound for Silents 2019: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside

Free Events

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2018

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2018

Free Thursday Nights

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

Performances

Art School: Music

Art School: Music

Talks and Lectures

Tyondai Braxton/Wordless Music Orchestra: Central Market

Tyondai Braxton/Wordless Music Orchestra: Central Market

Performances

Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra with special guest Carla Bley

Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra with special guest Carla Bley

Performances

Making Music: David Harrington

Making Music: David Harrington

Talks and Lectures

Summer Music & Movies: Sultry Nights: The Sounds of the City and the Films of Douglas Sirk

Summer Music & Movies: Sultry Nights: The Sounds of the City and the Films of Douglas Sirk

Performances

Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with yMusic

Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with yMusic

Performances

Brent Green with guest musicians: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

Brent Green with guest musicians: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

Performances

Kronos Quartet x 2: Music without Borders

Kronos Quartet x 2: Music without Borders

Performances

The Music of Ornette Coleman

The Music of Ornette Coleman

Performances

Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with yMusic: Penelope and new chamber works

Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with yMusic: Penelope and new chamber works

Performances

Music for Merce: A Two-Night Celebration

Music for Merce: A Two-Night Celebration

Performances

Making Music: Dave King

Making Music: Dave King

Talks and Lectures

Music for Parking Garages

Music for Parking Garages

Performances

The Music of Bryce Dessner

The Music of Bryce Dessner

Performances

Making Music: Alan Sparhawk from Low with choreographer Morgan Thorson

Making Music: Alan Sparhawk from Low with choreographer Morgan Thorson

Talks and Lectures

The Music of Bryce Dessner

The Music of Bryce Dessner

Performances

Making Music Series

Making Music Series

Talks and Lectures

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

Performances

Making Music Series

Making Music Series

Talks and Lectures

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2017

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside 2017

Free Events

Music + Film: Christian Marclay’s Graffiti Composition and Screen Play

Music + Film: Christian Marclay’s Graffiti Composition and Screen Play

Performances

Male Vocalists/Musicians Needed For September Garden Performance

Male Vocalists/Musicians Needed For September Garden Performance

Performances

Music for Merce: A Two-Night Celebration

Music for Merce: A Two-Night Celebration

Performances

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

FUTURITY: A Musical by the Lisps

Performances

Border Music: David Hidalgo and Marc Ribot

Border Music: David Hidalgo and Marc Ribot

Performances

Making Music with Sō Percussion

Making Music with Sō Percussion

Talks and Lectures

The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg

The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg

Exhibitions

Bill Frisell Trio: Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: The Disfarmer Project

Bill Frisell Trio: Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: The Disfarmer Project

Performances

Heroic Frenzies: The Music of Craig Taborn

Heroic Frenzies: The Music of Craig Taborn

Performances

Summer Music & Movies 2011

Summer Music & Movies 2011

Summer Music & Movies 2016: Living on Video

Summer Music & Movies 2016: Living on Video

The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg

The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg

Summer Music & Movies 2012

Summer Music & Movies 2012

Despair Be Damned: New Music and Dance from the Congo

Despair Be Damned: New Music and Dance from the Congo

Summer Music & Movies 2013: Roadways

Summer Music & Movies 2013: Roadways

Summer Music & Movies 2015: Bigger Than Life

Summer Music & Movies 2015: Bigger Than Life

Summer Music & Movies’ 30th Anniversary

Summer Music & Movies’ 30th Anniversary

Summer Music & Movies 2009

Summer Music & Movies 2009

Summer Music & Movies 2014: Playing with Time

Summer Music & Movies 2014: Playing with Time

The Music of Bryce Dessner

The Music of Bryce Dessner

Summer Music & Movies

Summer Music & Movies

Picture Music

Picture Music

Juventudes Musicales de Espana

Juventudes Musicales de Espana

University Musical Society

University Musical Society

George Music

George Music

Centre musical et chregraphique Erik Satie

Centre musical et chregraphique Erik Satie

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Collector’s Paradise: Greil Marcus on Allen Ruppersberg’s Rock ’n’ Roll Chronology

Collector’s Paradise: Greil Marcus on Allen Ruppersberg’s Rock ’n’ Roll Chronology

Wild Man, Iconoclast, Dreamer: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part 2)

Wild Man, Iconoclast, Dreamer: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part 2)

Introducing LOOP: A New Kind of Jazz Magazine from Jason Moran

Introducing LOOP: A New Kind of Jazz Magazine from Jason Moran

The Past Pointing to the Future: Bill Frisell on the Bad Plus

The Past Pointing to the Future: Bill Frisell on the Bad Plus

Improvising Movement Music

Improvising Movement Music

Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: The Disfarmer Project

Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: The Disfarmer Project

Music Videos and TV Commercials

Music Videos and TV Commercials

Music of the Spheres

Music of the Spheres

Brian Eno: Musician and Beyond

Brian Eno: Musician and Beyond

Lee: Music Videos

Lee: Music Videos

Hawaiian Musical Performances , 1941-1948

Hawaiian Musical Performances , 1941-1948

Alive from Off-Center: Show 107: A Personal History of the American Theater; & 108: Artists Music Videos

Alive from Off-Center: Show 107: A Personal History of the American Theater; & 108: Artists Music Videos

Sweet Music

Sweet Music

The Saddest Music in the World: clips

The Saddest Music in the World: clips

Partizan Entertainment Compilation Reel: Music Videos by Michel Gondry

Partizan Entertainment Compilation Reel: Music Videos by Michel Gondry

Partizan Entertainment : Music Videos by Michel Gondry: Bjork “Human Behaviour”

Partizan Entertainment : Music Videos by Michel Gondry: Bjork “Human Behaviour”

Hollywood Rhythm: The Paramount Musical Shorts, Volume 1

Hollywood Rhythm: The Paramount Musical Shorts, Volume 1

The Music of Regret

The Music of Regret

Alive from off Center: Artist’s Music Videos 108

Alive from off Center: Artist’s Music Videos 108

music from the edge of the allegheny plateau

music from the edge of the allegheny plateau

This Land is Your Music (film score for Sound for Silents)

This Land is Your Music (film score for Sound for Silents)

Correspondence: Music for a Common World

Correspondence: Music for a Common World

Music Room

Music Room

Lexikonzeichnung, Bremer Stadmusikanten (Lexicon Drawing, Bremen Town Musicians)

Lexikonzeichnung, Bremer Stadmusikanten (Lexicon Drawing, Bremen Town Musicians)

People Eating, a Cat, & Musicians

People Eating, a Cat, & Musicians

Requiem for Five Deceased Musical Performance Works

Requiem for Five Deceased Musical Performance Works

Music from the Death Factory

Music from the Death Factory

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Be In Music Videos?

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Be In Music Videos?

costume for Music Walk with Dancers

costume for Music Walk with Dancers

Perhaps the opportunity to feel the music of trees comes only once...

Perhaps the opportunity to feel the music of trees comes only once...

La langue Verte et la Cuite: Etude Gastrophonique sur la Marmytriologie Musiculinaire

La langue Verte et la Cuite: Etude Gastrophonique sur la Marmytriologie Musiculinaire

Poster for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

Poster for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

Ticket for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto, July 20, 1964 (one of Three Kyoto Events)

Ticket for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto, July 20, 1964 (one of Three Kyoto Events)

Program for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

Program for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

Program for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

Program for Contemporary American Avant-Garde Music Concert: Insound and Instructure, Yamaichi Hall, Kyoto

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: University Musical Society February 12-13, 1999

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: University Musical Society February 12-13, 1999

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Opus 96/97 Centre Musical et Chorégraphique Érik Satie

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Opus 96/97 Centre Musical et Chorégraphique Érik Satie

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Brooklyn Academy of Music January 5 - 16, 1970

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Brooklyn Academy of Music January 5 - 16, 1970

poster for Feldman/Brown: Music for Orchestra and Chorus

poster for Feldman/Brown: Music for Orchestra and Chorus

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Piazza San Marco Event 35° festival internazionale di musica contemporanei September 14, 1972

poster for Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Piazza San Marco Event 35° festival internazionale di musica contemporanei September 14, 1972

Making Music

Making Music

Musica Madre

Musica Madre

Fontana Mix; Material for Tape Music of that Title

Fontana Mix; Material for Tape Music of that Title

Credo in us: Music for the Dance Which was Made by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman

Credo in us: Music for the Dance Which was Made by Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman

Water Music

Water Music

Music for J.S. Bach

Music for J.S. Bach

Music for Long Point

Music for Long Point

Ray Johnsons A Musics

Ray Johnsons A Musics

Musik als Grün Op. 51, Nr. 4 aus Zwei Fluxus-Objekte (Music as Green Op.51, Nr. 4 from Two Fluxus Objects)

Musik als Grün Op. 51, Nr. 4 aus Zwei Fluxus-Objekte (Music as Green Op.51, Nr. 4 from Two Fluxus Objects)

Music For Everyman

Music For Everyman

Composition Musicale 1

Composition Musicale 1

Music Expanded

Music Expanded

Water Music

Water Music

Water Music

Water Music

Water Music

Water Music

Lilium musicum

Lilium musicum

Rafts for Listening to Chamber Music from The Planet as a Festival Series

Rafts for Listening to Chamber Music from The Planet as a Festival Series

Jazz Musician

Jazz Musician

Poster for New Music Media

Poster for New Music Media

Poster for Exhibition, New Music Media at Shihbuya Parco

Poster for Exhibition, New Music Media at Shihbuya Parco

Poster for Events: "Two Weeks of Literature, Music & Theater"

Poster for Events: "Two Weeks of Literature, Music & Theater"

Poster for Music Today for Seibu Theater

Poster for Music Today for Seibu Theater

Poster for Music Today for Seibu Theater

Poster for Music Today for Seibu Theater

Poster for New Music Media

Poster for New Music Media

Street Musician

Street Musician

It Makes Us Who We Are: Tomeka Reid and Damon Locks on Musical Improvisation, from Jazz to Punk Rock and Beyond

It Makes Us Who We Are: Tomeka Reid and Damon Locks on Musical Improvisation, from Jazz to Punk Rock and Beyond

Walker Art Center's Summer Music & Movies Evolves into Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside featuring a Live Score by Marijuana Deathsquads

Walker Art Center's Summer Music & Movies Evolves into Sound for Silents: Film + Music Commission on the Walker Hillside featuring a Live Score by Marijuana Deathsquads

Walker Art Center and the SPCO's Liquid Music Series Present Co-Commission and World Premiere, Composer and Musician Rafiq Bhatia's Breaking English with Visual Art from Michael Cina and Hal Lovemelt, and Ian Chang's Spiritual Leader

Walker Art Center and the SPCO's Liquid Music Series Present Co-Commission and World Premiere, Composer and Musician Rafiq Bhatia's Breaking English with Visual Art from Michael Cina and Hal Lovemelt, and Ian Chang's Spiritual Leader

Kevin Jerome Everson: music from the edge of the allegheny plateau

Kevin Jerome Everson: music from the edge of the allegheny plateau

Border Crossings: Bridging Music and Movements with Makaya McCraven

Border Crossings: Bridging Music and Movements with Makaya McCraven

Watch: The Staves and yMusic Perform "The Way Is Read"

Watch: The Staves and yMusic Perform "The Way Is Read"

Films as a Place for Black Joy

Films as a Place for Black Joy

Uncovered 004: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich’s The Sun Still Burns Here

Uncovered 004: Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich’s The Sun Still Burns Here

Henry Threadgill: The Code Is Never Fully Cracked

Henry Threadgill: The Code Is Never Fully Cracked

The Source of Sound: Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on Working with Ate9

The Source of Sound: Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on Working with Ate9

Perfume Genius, Andrew J.S., and Kate Wallich Discuss the Design of The Sun Still Burns Here

Perfume Genius, Andrew J.S., and Kate Wallich Discuss the Design of The Sun Still Burns Here

Jlin Makes her Twin Cities debut with n!=3 (Permutation of Three)

Jlin Makes her Twin Cities debut with n!=3 (Permutation of Three)

Visionary, Mensch, Dude: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part I)

Visionary, Mensch, Dude: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part I)

Soundtracks for 2020: Twin Cities Musicians on Scoring Experimental Films

Soundtracks for 2020: Twin Cities Musicians on Scoring Experimental Films

Oozing with Cool: Minnesota Music Legend Tony Glover at the Walker

Oozing with Cool: Minnesota Music Legend Tony Glover at the Walker

Daymé Arocena: For the Cuban Music of Today

Daymé Arocena: For the Cuban Music of Today

Uncovered 002: Fever Ray, Country Music, Mouse on Mars

Uncovered 002: Fever Ray, Country Music, Mouse on Mars

Investigating the Magnetic Field that Drew the Staves and yMusic to Eau Claire

Investigating the Magnetic Field that Drew the Staves and yMusic to Eau Claire

Program Notes for An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

Program Notes for An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

Program Notes for Zeitgeist and Friends: The Music of George Lewis

Program Notes for Zeitgeist and Friends: The Music of George Lewis

Sound For Silents: Film + Music On The Walker Hillside, Featuring Singer-Songwriter Pieta Brown

Sound For Silents: Film + Music On The Walker Hillside, Featuring Singer-Songwriter Pieta Brown

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside, Featuring Artist/Producer FPA

Sound for Silents: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside, Featuring Artist/Producer FPA

Walker Publishes Living Collections Catalogue, Volume IV Creative Black Music at the Walker: Selections from the Archives

Walker Publishes Living Collections Catalogue, Volume IV Creative Black Music at the Walker: Selections from the Archives

February Free First Saturday features Snowshoe Sculpture Garden Tours, Sweater Art-Making and Music Workshop, plus Walker Shop Pop-Up

February Free First Saturday features Snowshoe Sculpture Garden Tours, Sweater Art-Making and Music Workshop, plus Walker Shop Pop-Up