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Noise cabinet

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photo courtesy of Capitol Modern and LVRG

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Events

Program 1:

“a bridge to becoming”

Leilehua Lanzilotti


Gahlord Dewald

January 17, 2026 at 2 pm
Capitol Modern: The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
250 South Hotel Street, Honolulu HI 96813
Free Admission

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Program 2:

“Second nature”

Christopher Stark


the conleys

June 13, 2026 at 2 pm
Capitol Modern: The Hawaiʻi State Art Museum
250 South Hotel Street, Honolulu HI 96813
Free Admission

*please note that due to the No Kings March, this event has been rescheduled for the above date

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About

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Noise Cabinet is a forward leaning concert series created for listeners with openness and curiosity.  Featuring several thoughtfully curated concerts, the series explores a wide spectrum of sound, from solo works and chamber music to free improvisations and electro-acoustic compositions. 

Noise Cabinet is proud to partner with Capitol Modern: The Hawai’i State Art Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii and is curated by Clara Kim.

The name Noise Cabinet takes its inspiration from 16th-century curiosity cabinets.  The term originally referred to a room designated for collecting and showcasing rarities such as a shark’s tooth or a hawk’s claw, foreign plants or portraits.  Curiosity cabinets were reflections of their curators; as a result, it was less important that they were scientifically true than being marked with a sense of the curious, marvelous, and mystical.

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PRESS

Featured on Hawaiʻi Public Radioʻs “The Conversation” with DW Gibson:

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Featured on FLUX Fridays:

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    East | West

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