Vic Rawlings is a musician, instrument builder, sound installation artist, and filmmaker. Visiting artist residencies include CalArts, Oberlin Conservatory, MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan, as well as homeless shelters, correctional facilities, and primary and secondary schools. He co-directed the feature-length film Linefork (Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab), an immersive observational documentary offering a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of Smithsonian Folkways banjo legend Lee Sexton and his wife, Opal, in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky, which has been presented at festivals on four continents. Rawlings foregrounds the use of time in sonic improvisation, has performed works by Cage, Stockhausen, and Cardew, and has worked directly with 20th/21st century composers Alvin Lucier, Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger, and Christian Wolff. He has performed throughout North America and Europe at venues including The Stone, Jordan Hall, The Gardner Museum, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Festival appearances include Victoriaville (Quebec), Musique Action (France), and Vision (NYC). Collaborators include Seijiro Murayama, Greg Kelley, Tim Feeney, Jake Meginsky, Ikue Mori, and many others. Labels include Grob, RRR, Sedimental, Absurd, Boxmedia, Rykodisc, and Full Spectrum. He teaches on the Performance Faculty of Amherst College and Smith College.