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Luella's Phonarium

by Marla Goodman & David DiGiacomo

Luella Sibylla was born with a striking ability to hear and mimic sounds. At the age of three years, she devised a system of sonic notation to document the sounds she found amusing. Later, she discovered a way to precisely capture sonic phenomena using intricate instruments of her own invention. Luella painstakingly labeled most of her specimens, but the source of some remains obscure, as do the methods she invented to capture them. She even appears to have collected voices rarely heard in modern times, like those of giants, fairies, and talking beasts. Her unique methods of sonic capture also made it possible for her to preserve the sounds of things like trees and moonlight, which you might have thought were silent.

Marla Goodman & David DiGiacomo

Marla and David live in a rambling 1930 home in Bozeman, often frequented by their daughter and son-in-law, Wren and Mike, and their grandkids, Ira and Bertie. Marla is the writer/illustrator of the Brownpaper Mouse Alphabet storybooks, coloring book and paper dolls. She also enjoys making moving dioramas and animations and studying classical Theremin. David, Marla's spouse, is a retired electrical engineer, voracious reader of science fiction and supporter of wildly creative schemes.

When not inventing wacky contraptions together, Marla and David enjoy collecting curiosities of their own. Marla collects plaid umbrellas, existentially troubled dolls, masterpiece knock-offs, valentines, 1930s neckties, clocks shaped like TVs, dollhouse miniatures, tiny houses, broom labels, and postcards. David collects electronic test equipment (particularly oscilloscopes) and technical manuals, and anthropomorphic salt and pepper shakers. For more information about Marla and her art,
visit her website.


Marla will be performing on Theremin Thursdays from 4-5pm on March 28th and April 4th and 11th at the Story Mansion.


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