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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...
...while clearly interested ahead of time in the art involved in setting up an exhibit in a museum, Rabinowitch endows each piece with enough enduring personality to deserve lingering attention. Here sits one, a misshapen manhole or new-fangled stop-watch, whose scratches and smoothness vie with the bold, geometric chords that stretch across its center. There sits another, a pueblo for dormice, whose precise measurements and truncated top make one wonder what is suggested or what might possibly be missing...
...course, a cynic might dismiss the whole lot as blueprints for futuristic or retro college dormitory facilities across the nation: the pieces almost all resemble architectural scale models, with the grand, misguided feel of an architect's imagination gone amok Furthermore, the room used to exhibit the pieces seems inexplicably gloomy at times and is somewhat inconve niently catalogued...