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...Jazzman Herbie Hancock's Beverly Hills house, a brand-new $2,800 Arp 2600 three-oscillator synthesizer sits right next to his Butsudan altar. "There are no miracles in Buddhism, but chanting has never failed," says Herbie. "You can do it if you have a problem, or if you want something to happen or not happen. It's you you are chanting to. It's just like adding fire to yourself." Hancock began chanting two years ago. As a convert to the Buddhist sect known in the U.S. as Nichiren Shoshu of America, he would light...
...first result was Wonder's 1972 album Music of My Mind, in which he showed complex new textures with the Moog and Arp synthesizers and a fresh repose in his love ballads. He had just married Syreeta Wright, a Motown secretary, and they collaborated on the lead song, Love Having You Around ("And when the day is through/ Nothin' to do, just sit around groovin' with you"). Alas, the groovin' lasted only 1½ years. Stevie and Syreeta are now divorced...
...this return to unadorned simplicity, not the least of which is crime. "Very few people wear diamonds now. The crime rate won't permit it," says Jane Norris, proprietress of Manhattan's Sculpture to Wear, which features the work of such masters as Calder, Picasso, Jean Arp and Man Ray as well as younger artists in its expensive ($50 to $3,500) collection. Her competitor Cynthia Bhaget of Amulets & Talismans agrees: "What's the sense of having diamonds if you have to keep them in the vault all the time?" Another factor in the diamond...
...ARP Synthesizer Concert, Hearst Lounge, B.U. 3:30, Feb. 18. Free...
...like Playboy femlins in the Korova milk bar, serve as tables or dispense mescaline-laced milk from their nipples. They are, in fact, close parodies of the fetishistic furniture-sculpture of Allen Jones. The living room of the Cat Lady, whom Protagonist Alex (Malcolm McDowell) murders with an immense Arp-like sculpture of a phallus, is decked with the kind of garish, routinely erotic paintings that have infested Pop-art consciousness in recent years...