San Francisco sound artist, instrument builder and composer Walter Kitundu, best known for his phonoharp, which makes the common record player a stringed instrument, was named a MacArthur Fellow on ...

If you're waiting to fly out of the redone Terminal 2 at SFO, you might be tempted to sit down on Walter Kitundu's xylophone bench and tap out the six-note chorus to "Leaving on a Jet Plane." This is ...

“I aspire to get to that place where everything is kind of new, where I’mresponding to things in new ways and discovering what the potential of theinstrument is.”— Walter Kitundu Since the late 1990s, ...

Kitundu is a musician tinkerer who is best known as the creator of the Phonoharp, a series of stringed instruments built around record players. This Blue Steel String 1200 Phonoharp, for instance, is ...

Walter Kitundu is a multi-media artist at the Exploratorium. He creates some of the fascinating exhibits that challenge our minds, and his. "I think I have a restless curiosity; it's not that I get ...

WALTER KITUNDU HAD his camera focused on a hummingbird in San Francisco’s Alta Plaza Park when a red-tail hawk flew over him. Intrigued, he returned to the park a few more times to look for the bird. ...