Vic Rawlings

Vic Rawlings  is a musician, instrument builder, sound installation artist, filmmaker, and freelance teacher based in western Massachusetts. Rawlings is active as an electroacoustic musician, most often using an amplified/prepared cello and an electronic instrument of his own design and build. Visiting artist/teaching residencies have included Oberlin Conservatory, MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan. His teaching interests include listening actions, collective sound-based improvisation, and electroacoustic instrument building, as well as more conventional forms of music (electric and acoustic guitar/banjo/mandolin) ranging widely in style.