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...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
...Harp and Ely's education in computers actually began when Bob Harp, a onetime engineer at the California Institute of Technology and an inveterate high-tech tinkerer on weekends, proposed that the two try to market a memory board, which stores information, that he had designed in his spare time. With $6,000 they bought inventory and printing materials and started assembling the boards in the Harp home. Styrofoam packing materials were stored in a downstairs shower; the dining room became a testing area...
...simplicity, simplicity, simplicity," in one character's words--is admirably carried out in the play's staging. The stage and props are unembellished, and the action unceremoniously set off from the audience by some well-placed mattresses. The lighting is unobtrusive, and the music--fine accompaniment by piano and harp--is rather low-key for a musical...
...turn of the century. To compare such objects with their European responses, at this late date, is to enter a strange chamber of mirrors: we now tend to see African art in terms of cubism; one musical instrument in a glass case at the Met, a Zaire harp, is quite simply a cubist guitar plucked out of Picasso's paint of 1915 and materialized in three dimensions. Primitivism owes its prestige, in the West, to modernism...
...pons is scored for three groups, arranged in a large rectangle. An instrumental ensemble of 24 musicians sits on a raised platform in the center, facing the conductor. Stationed symmetrically around the room are six soloists, also on platforms, playing two pianos, electric organ, harp, cimbalom, vibraphone and xylophone, with each instrument wired for sound. A half-dozen technicians operate a bank of machines on ground level behind the conductor. The most important is the advanced 4X computer developed at IRCAM that can alter and transform live musical sounds with a speed that allows it to function as effectively...