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Program directors have also planned an exhibit of Native American history, both at Harvard and in the state of Massachusetts as a whole, to be on display in the Widener Library Rotunda throughout April...
...Sonic Jigsaw," as the name might suggest, is just the type of adventurous project the OFA loves to fund; it received one of the largest grants, $500. Coordinated by the student group EMBRYO (Experimental Music BRing Your Own)," Sonic Jigsaw" is an interactive exhibit in which participants will become "noise artists," as they play with various experimental disguised sounds. People will be able to select sections of sound and modulate those sounds, while they move the noise from chaos to one individual harmony...
...common sound, such as applause, and then bury that sound under various electronic mutations with the help of a surge machine. The original sound will then slowly, over the course of the composition, be revealed and become identifiable. A minimum of five such pieces will be offered in the exhibit, and participants will be able to freeze sections of these individual compositions and then combine any number of them in order to create a sound of their own. Costanza-Chock explains, "It is all about collage, taking pieces from different places and then putting them together in different ways...
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version." Exhibit A is the author of that gloomy sentence: Frank McCourt, 66, a retired New York City public school teacher who was born in Depression-racked Brooklyn but spent his formative years in the dank slums of Limerick...
...years ago were not up to our modern standards, but no excavations of that time were. Compared with the work of his contemporaries, De Morgan's excavations were certainly outstanding. De Morgan was a pioneer in the study of the prehistory of Egypt before the Pharaohs. Next year an exhibit at the Louvre will retrace his career. ANNIE CAUBET, General Conservator Department of Eastern Antiquities Louvre Museum Paris