The Hoboken Historical Museum is pleased to present “Modern Cave Sounds,” a concert at Sybil’s Cave Park, on Saturday, May 21 at 4:30pm. Internationally acclaimed innovative composers, musicians and instrument inventors Bill Brovold and Jay Kreimer will bring their musical experiment in cave acoustics to Hoboken in a concert open to all. Guests may want to bring a blanket or chairs. Admission is free, donations to support the musicians are appreciated. This concert follows a free, family-friendly Instrument-Making Workshop Bill and Jay will be giving at Sybil’s Cave from 2:00 – 3:30.

Sybil’s Cave is the oldest manmade structure in Hoboken, created in 1832 by the Stevens Family as a folly on their property that contained a natural spring. It is on the north end of Sinatra Drive, where 8th Street would be if it extended that far.

Bill Brovold is a composer, instrument builder, visual artist and educator. While still a student at The School of Visual Arts he was beginning to make soundtracks for performance artists and film makers. In the 1980s, he was involved in New York’s “Downtown” music scene (while living in Hoboken for a spell!), and has collaborated with an array of artists around the world. His recordings have been released by John Zorn’s Tzadik label, The Knitting Factory, Cuneiform and many others. He has been a teaching artist in many different New York City public elementary and middle schools, working with both visual and sound art. Discover more at his Bandcamp page here.

Jay Kreimer is a musical instrument inventor, improvising composer, and poly-artist. He has performed on his instruments across North America and Europe and in China and India. Collaborative installations with textile artist Wendy Weiss have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US and Canada. Much of his work develops through collaboration. Response to materials at hand, including sound as material, runs through all of his work. The aesthetic of his collaborators functions as material in his work flow. His collaborative bent is central to his approach to teaching workshops on instrument invention, performance, and listening. He was recently awarded a Fulbright senior research fellowship to make original instruments from local materials in India.