Hot Shop Music translates glassblowing technique to music.

Combining the ways glassblowers communicate technical information with compositional conventions in jazz and new music, Matt McAllister and Charlie Manion wrote a modular score following Pearl Dick’s glassblowing and performed it with a chamber orchestra at Firebird Community Arts in September of 2021.

Featuring musicians Matt McAllister, Chihsuan Yang, Wyatt Waddell, Marcus Reese, and Artie Black, conducted by Charlie Manion

The first iteration of this performance, similarly featuring a live, adaptive musical accompaniment to a blown glass demonstration, occurred at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio in 2017