Richard A Waters Resume

Education

1965 M.F.A., Painting and drawing, California College of Arts and
Crafts, Oakland, CA
1961 B.S., Painting, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
1954 High School. Columbia Military Academy, Columbia, TN

Summary of Qualifications

• 30 years creating and marketing fine arts and sonic crafts. Producing a large body of work using a wide range of materials in painting, sculpture, graphics, musical inventions and recordings.
• Extensive exhibit and performance record in galleries, museums, and concert halls.
• Developed a series of musical inventions into a successful cottage industry.
• Taught and lectured on the college level. Experience in setting up & directing art departments.
• Musical inventions are being used in symphonies, Jazz, New, & World Music and performance art as well as many movie and TV sound tracks..
• Served as Arts/Crafts Coordinator for the American Bamboo Society. Initiated and developed the Use or Utility code for the various varieties of bamboo for the American Bamboo Society. This code is being carried on today by others. Visit the ABS web site and look at the "Source List" to see this code.

Professional Teaching Experience

1966 Taught painting theory at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS.
1967-9 Sausalito Art Center, Sausalito, CA, raised funds via the Sausalito Art Festival to equipped the sculpture department. Purchased equipment, hired instructors, set up classes, and taught classes in “Found Art and Junk Sculpture”, “Kinetic Sculpture”, “Sound Sculpture”.
1980-90 Guest lecturer: San Francisco State College (series), Sonoma State U., Cotati, CA.(series and performances), Rohnert Park, CA, Lawrence Hall of Science, U. of CA, Berkeley, CA. “Exploratorium” (series), San Francisco, CA, Center for Music Experiment, U. C., La Jolla, CA

Performance

1968-1995 performed in 5 music ensembles —“Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band” performing New Music, “Listen” a Jazz fusion band, “SEAMS” = “Sonoma Electro Acoustic Music Society” performing New Music, “Totem” a mixed jazz/new music + theater ensemble, “C-SIDE” =(California Sonic Instrument Designers Ensemble) performing new music on new musical inventions and sound devices, & “Petite Mal” playing electro/acoustic New Music in the following places: Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA, Palace of Fine Arts (museum), San Francisco, CA, Center for World Music, San Francisco, CA, The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA., Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, “1750 Arch St.”, Berkeley, CA, Julia Morgan Center for the Arts, Berkeley, CA, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Musical Saw Festival, Santa Cruz, CA, Sonoma State U., Rohnert Park, CA, Santa Rosa Jr. College, Santa Rosa, CA. “Exploratorium”, San Francisco, CA. Grace Cathedral, “Save the Whale” concert, San Francisco, CA.

Exhibited Art - Painting, Sculpture & Instruments

"All Hawaii" exhibit, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hi. 2003.

1966 present. - Coral Gables Museum of Art, Coral Gables, FL, Schramm Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, “Whistle Stop” Gallery, Ocean Springs, MS, Renwich Art Gallery( Smithsonian Institute), Washington, D.C., Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA, Sonic Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, Braille Institute, Los Angeles, CA, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Walnut Creek Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, “80 Langton St.”, San Francisco, Ca., Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, Chico State Art Gallery, Chico, CA, Dr. Janssen's Bamboo Seminars, Hilo, HI.

One Man Shows

1965-present. Schramn Art Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Biloxi Art Gallery, Biloxi, MS, Palo Alto, CA, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, Santa Rosa Jr. .College, Santa Rosa, CA.

Recordings & Radio

1969 to 2000. “I Want to Live” album, “One” & “Hole in the Sky” (2 albums) with the Gravity Adjusters.
“Listen” (won album of the year in the greater San Francisco Bay Area-1973),
Public radio, KPFA, Berkeley, CA, “Midnight Special”,
public radio, San Diego, CA, “Sounds of Science” CBS, NYC, NY
“World Seizure” and “Levitation” cassettes with the “Petite Mal” Ensemble.
Recorded 3 pieces for the publication + cassette “Experimental Musical Instruments”.
Two CDs with Tom Waits, “Moanin’ Parade” and “Swarm Warnings”.
“Water Dreams” CD, Richard Waters and Friends, 2000.
Recorded sound tracks for movies: “Mr. President”.
remake of “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers”,
short on death “Dewdrop”.

Television and Movie Documentaries

1980-1985. Walnut Creek, CA, interview about sonic sculptures.
Public television, Rohnert Park, Ca., studio interview about multi-media art directions.
Public television, San Francisco, CA, “Art Notes”. interview and demonstration.
Movie documentary, “Celestial & Wave - The Musical Instruments of Richard Waters”.

Collectors and Musicians

Aerosmith, Todd Barton, James Colburn, David Darling, Chip Dunbar,
Karen Elaine, Reinhard Flatischler, Bert Turetsky, Mickey Hart, Mel
Graves, Kitaro, Chris Lamb, George Marsh, Robert Minden, Luis Peralta,
Percussive Arts Society, Tom Waits, Emil Richards, Lalo Schiffrin, Tom
Scott, Dave Grusin, and Glen Velez.

Publications

1995 - “Bamboo, The Musical Grass” 3 part article on a wide range of information on bamboo - growing/harvesting/curing/preserving, working, and making musical instruments in “Experimental Musical Instruments”.
1984 - “Percussive Notes” official publication of the national Percussive Arts Society (PAS). “Looking and listening into the future” - a projected view of the development of acoustic, musical instruments into the next century and beyond.
1985-1995 “Experimental Musical Instruments” (periodical) articles on Waterphones, superball mallets, enharmonic partials
1996 - “Bamboo and Music” an overview of acoustic bamboo instruments for “Experimental Musical Instruments”.
1997 - “Journeys to the East” An account of attending the International Bamboo Workshop in Anji, China for the American Bamboo Society.

Inter Species Communication

1967-1975 Designed Waterphone (pat. no. 3896696). Used successfully to call whales and other cetacean. Commissions by Green Peace, Save the Whale, and Project Jonah (New Zealand).
1977 With whales and dolphin in Magnalena Bay, Baja Mexico using sonic sculptures and musical instruments for film project.

Grants and Awards

1977 - Ford Foundation Research Grant, University of CA at La Jolla, CA, Center for Music Experiment.
Artist in the Schools (grant). Designed music/art curriculum for preschool programs. Taught master classes to preschool staff, Sonoma County, CA,
1965 Lytton Award in painting - $1000. Oakland, CA.

Instruments on Movie/TV Sound tracks

“Star Trek” (music by Jerry GoldSmith), “The Man Who Skied Down Mt. Everest”, “Poltergeist”, The Wide World of Animals - “Calling Orcas”, The “Kung Fu” TV. series, “Alien Nation” - movie and TV. series, “The Young Guns”, “Bugsy”, “Powder”, “No Place to Hide”, “Truman”, “Mystery Men”, “The Matrix”, “The Three Ghosts of Christmas”, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and many others..