Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Essay about "The Science & Snares of Statistics" [Sept. 8] reminds me of an observation by Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941), himself a player of the game: "The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases...
...next to the players of their segments, urging them on) were all Stockhausen disciples who went to Darmstadt specifically to work with him. This year's workshop concerts were also dominated by Stockhausen creations, especially Microphonie I, in which rubber suction cups, an electric massager, ice-cube tongs and wineglasses were scraped against a huge gong, while the resulting sounds were processed by two microphones, two electronic filters and a potentiometer...
Salvation in a Sugar Cube. The front ranks of the avant-garde are rapidly expanding. Stan VanDerBeek, Gregory vlarkopoulos, Bruce Conner, Robert Breer, Ed Emshwiller and Harry Smith have all done work of a high order. An even newer and no less gifted generation of moviemakers-Ben Van Meter, Ken Jacobs, Bruce Baillie-is rising with a whir. Romantic, rebellious and vaguely worried, the new boys come on like strangers in a world they never scripted. Some of them celebrate the horrors of modern life. They exhibit America as an air-conditioned cemetery for the walking dead...
Some of them, attempting to find salvation in a sugar cube, make something called "psychedelic cinema." Their intention is to reproduce on the screen what they see while they are in the acid bag. Even farther out is something called "expanded cinema" or "mixed-media environments," a sort of avant-garde circus in which movies, theater, recorded music, kinetic sculpture and light paintings are fused into a single engulfing experience...
...from neutral. Smith says: "I think of my things as being stable, down-to-earth, ordinary in a sense. I don't want them to be 'An Experience.' " But he is willing to play the game of associating them with experiences. The 6-ft. steel cube known as Die, he explains, can refer to a matrix or mold, but it is also an imperative. In fact, he built it after having been injured in an auto accident, partly to express his rage with the world...