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Arts & Entertainment
'the North Texas Daily
Page 5
Thursday, February 24,1983
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NT composers plan unusual stage to surprise audience
Free experimental music concert will present slides, dancers in Intermedia Theater
By DENISE KOHN
Staff Writer
A free experimental music concert,
“Incidcncc/Reflcction,” featuring
slides and dancers, will he performed at
8:15 p in. Monday in the Intermedia
Theater.
Debra Chang, Honolulu, Hawaii, grad-
uate student, and Jon Meinecke, Lubbock
graduate student, composed the music for
the concert. The presentation is part of
the "Gallery” series sponsored by the
NT Center for Electronic Music and
Intermedia.
The audience is asked to sit on the
floor for the performance, and, Chang
said, people may want to bring pillows
to sit on. Chairs will be provided in the
back for people who are too uncomfort-
able sitting on the floor.
HAVING THE AUDIENCE seated
on the floor will give the concert a more
relaxed atmosphere, she said. "We’re not
planning to use the stage in the usual
way. It’ll be a surprise.”
The pieces arc linked together in their
themes and concepts, Meinecke said.
“There is an imagery throughout of per-
ceiving things from different perspectives.
We wanted to make a concept rather than
have a segmented program.”
“Parallax," composed by Chang, is
based on music from a gamelan, the na-
tive orchestra of Indonesia. Gamelans do
not have violins or cellos, she said, but
arc primarily composed of gongs and other
percussion instruments.
Chang earned an undergraduate degree
in cthnomusicology, the study of world
music, from the University of Hawaii.
By using a digital synthesizer, she
invented her own instruments similar to
the instruments of a gamelan, she said.
“I TOOK THE structure of the gam-
clan and changed it to be my own. ” TWU
students James D’Aigle, Laurie Zerkin
and Marguerite Johnson will dance dur-
ing the piece. A parallax is the change
in an object’s position as a result of a
different viewpoint, and, Chang said, the
dancers will help to express this theme.
The only other computer-generated
piece in the concert is Meineckc’s ' Re-
cursions: Palindrome and Canon." Mel-
odies arc generated by the computer, ana-
lyzed and then added to the computer's
data base.
Chang and Meinecke collaborated on
the composition of "Mirror." which is
based on the poem with the same title
' by Sylvia Plath.
"In ’Mirror,’ Plath talks about seeing
reality in a way we don’t usually think
of," Meinecke said. "The music also
expresses the ideas between truth and mis-
conceptions." The poem is read, so the
piece is not like a song, Chang said.
“WE USED IMPROVISATION not
as an end, but as a means in our collab
oration." Meinecke said "In a sense,
we’re always in collaboration. We bounce
ideas off one another and talk about our
work together. It's more of a collabora-
tion of spirit than technicalities."
"Dravati" is a piece featuring Denton
graduate student Nancy King and Denton
senior Mark Roberson on the viola.
Mciecke composed the piece in 1980 and
said it may have a different sytle from
his more latest works.
"It's an evolution and growth process,
but is not necccssarily better or worse.
I’m not the same person I was three weeks
ago." He said art is a self-alteration.
"Making art changes us."
Meinecke doesn't consider the concert
a computer-music concert. "It’s an
intermedia concert, an integrated musi-
cal and visual experience," he said.
HE SAID THERE are many miscon-
ceptions about using computers to com
pose music. "A computer is a tool for
the composer The machine didn't write
the music.”
Using computers in composition is not
a value judgement, he said. "It's an aid.
a tool for the process of composition."
Chang and Meinecke said they don't
have time to become nervous about the
performance of their pieces. "We’re usu-
ally involved in the performance and are
not part of the audience. We don't get a
chance to feel removed," Chang said.
Art gallery to feature contemporary Japanese metalwork
By WENDE HILDEBRANDT
Daily Reporter
T he NT Art Gallery will host "Kyoto Met-
al: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese
Art Metalwork" from March 4 to March 31.
Dr. Harlan Butt, art faculty member and
organizer of the exhibition, said it (the exhi-
bition) is the largest ever to come to NT.
“Kyoto Metal" will be on exhibit in muse-
ums and galleries throughout the United States
during the remainder of 1983 and early part
The exhibition features 50 metal objects by
43 craftsmen who are natives of Kyoto. Ja-
pan, Butt said. Butt has spent more than two
years putting the exhibition together.
The exhibition is supported by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commis-
sion on the Arts, the city of Kyoto and NT.
Butt, who joined NT in 1976 after earning
degrees in metalwork from Tyler School of
Art and Southern Illinois University, went to
Japan in 1979 and was awarded a fellowship
grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts. He spent six months there as one of five
Americans selected for a program funded by
the NEA, the Japan-United States Friendship
Commission and the Agency for Cultural Af-
fairs in Japan.
Fascinated by Kyoto and the craftsmen lie
met there, Butt got the idea for an exhibition
of their work in the United States. He returned
to Kyoto for two months last summer under a
faculty research grant from NT and set up the
exhibition.
Butt visited Kyoto artisans and city officials.
and he exhibited his own work in a Kyoto
gallery and appeared on Japanese television
to discuss the upcoming show with Japanese
artists.
Butt said some of the pieces are the result
of artists' collaboration, a rare practice in the
United States, while other works in the ex-
hibit are credited to a single artisan.
All the pieces in the exhibition are function-
al. he said. It includes kettles, incense burn-
ers. bowls, trays and vases. Some of the pieces
were used in tea ceremonies. "It's a very
unique ceremony which represents purity, tran-
quility and peace," Butt said.
After the presentation at NT, the exhibit
will be presented at North Carolina State Uni-
versity; The University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor; the National Ornamental Metals Mu-
seum in Memphis, Tenn.: Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale; Parsons School of
Design, New York; the Japanese-American Cul-
tural and Community Center. Los Angeles;
and the Museum of History and Industry,
Seattle.
‘ RBL bands play rock Thursday, folk Friday
Two bands highlight this week's Rock Bottom
Lounge schedule.
Schwantz Lafantz, a Denton group, is scheduled
to play tonight from 9 p.m. to midnight, and Tish
Hinojosa, a Red River, N.M., group will perform
Friday from 9 p.m. to midnight. Cover charge for
each night is SI. Beth Taylor, RBL manager, said
Wednesday.
Ed Loftis, band leader and piano player for
Schwantz Lefantz, describes the bund's music as
"original, sort of educated rock."
Other members of the band include Randy Leago
on saxophone, Steve Canter on bass, Dennis Evans
on guitar, and Doug Frantz on drums.
Tish Hinojosa will be accompanied by Dave Magill
on guitar, piano and vocals and Craig Barker on bass
and vocals. T he trio includes original music, folk
music, familiar country and pop music in its
performances.
Hinojosa was recognized by the Kerrville Folk Fes-
tival for her original compositions in 1979. and she
performed in the main concert of the festival. She
was a winner of the New Folk Songwriters’
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lectures, gives workshops
By DENISE KOHN
Staff Writer
Watercolorist Sondra Freckelton will
present a free lecture and show slides of
her works at 8 p.m. Friday in Art Build-
ing 223 as part of the NT Fine Arts Series.
In addition to her lecture, Freckelton
will speak to students in watercolor classes
and hold watercolor workshops.
Freckelton’s painting is realistic and
almost photographic. Rob Erdlc of the
art department said. "But she deals with
realism observed through the eyes of the
artist as opposed to the camera."
Freckelton is a graduate of the Art In-
stitute of Chicago. She has had one-person
exhibitions at San Francisco's Bcrgeruen
Gallery and the Allan Frumkin Gallery
in Chicago. Her works have been dis-
played in group shows at New York City's
Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney
Museum of Modern Art.
Her subjects are humble, Erdlc said.
"They’re everyday, usual matter."
Freckelton paints still lifes and landscapes.
Her works emphasize imagery over proc-
ess, he said.
"The imagery is the first thing that
hits you in her paintings. You're not as
concerned with how she docs it." Her
works have a pristine and glowing qual-
ity, he said. "She suppresses evidence
of the artist's hand. Her works arc
illusionistie renderings, but they appear
to be almost real."
Erdlc said the scale and brilliance of
her imagery distinguishes her from other
watercolorists. "There is not a lot of de-
tail in her backgrounds. The detail is sim-
ply implied."
Freckelton is committed to watercolor
as her primary means of expression. "She
began using sculpture," Erdlc said, "but
there were certain things she wanted to
say that couldn't be done in sculpture."
There is a sensibility in watercolor as
a medium, he said. "She uses the me-
dium to show an amazing light and
brilliance."
Every artist runs workshops different-
ly, said Erdle, but she'll probably work
and discuss with students how they
pcrcieve the objects in their own paint-
ings. “She's a very down-to-earth per-
son and is easy to work with."
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