TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents Andrew Deutsch & Ann Hamilton: The First Line (Sounds for Drawing) on view at the museum from October 9 through October 31, 2010. Andrew Deutsch & Ann Hamilton: The First Line (Sounds for Drawing) is the culmination of a decade-long exchange between the two artists; a forum for public participation and an experimental drawing project. Inspired by an observation Ann Hamilton made that the soothing, sweeping sounds of her pencil and hand moving across the surface of the paper while drawing seemed akin to the lyrical cadences of overlapping whispering voices, Andrew Deutsch positioned microphones close to her body as she chanted almost unintelligibly and drew (the graphite work seen here above the drafting table). Now the focus of this interactive installation, the original recordings were filtered and remixed to create soundtracks for drawing. Striving for a deeper engagement wit