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...inability to transmit student opinion to the administration, despite Mrs. Bunting's religious attendance at the often deadly boring meetings. It is hard to see in what mysterious ways a smaller student government could enliven these meetings; it is impossible to see how a difference in size is gong to aid communication with the administration...
...reproducing equipment. John Cage's Variations II required Pianist David Tudor to clip microphones at various points on his Steinway and to overtune them so that the amplifier-produced squawl and squawk become part of the composition; in Mikrophonie I. Karlheinz Stockhausen attached two microphones to an oversized gong, which was then hit with a variety of materials to produce a 26-minute submersion in audible chaos...
...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...
...Gong Guru. Old Jim swings in other ways. He took LSD before it was fashionable. He digs for relics in Yucatan, goes on three-day fasts. Wearing wrap-around shades on his eyes, and with a cigarette holder between his teeth, he drives his silver Ferrari "as fast as I can everywhere I go, playing little tunes on the gears." For solace, he retreats to his 22-room Spanish villa atop Beverly Hills, sits cross-legged on a leopard-skin pillow, drops his head, closes his eyes, and bongs away on four Japanese gongs and a large hollow log from...
...lights in the Freshman Union dimmed. A gong sounded. Two girls minced to the center of the balcony, high above the yelling fans. Then, as the strains of "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" filled the dining hall, and the lights went back on, the girls unfurled a huge banner saying "The Temptations...