September 29, 2007
Got a Cultural Kid?
If so, take them to the Art Museum tomorrow, for this performance/workshop with Eric Hall:'
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Between 1 and 4 PM this Sunday afternoon I will be presenting a child-based sound-art piece at The St. Louis Art Museum called "untitled (or not)". I have designed a sound-sculpture which involves the participants in the creation of music through interaction with Tibetan Buddhist ritual instruments, objects, and sounds (strings of temple bells, dorjes, hand-bells, a prayer wheel, prayer flags, and recordings of rag-dung trumpets and polyphonic chant), all of which are being processed by automated real-time samplers and effects, creating an open-ended collaborative composition between myself and the audience. Hopefully this will be exciting and engaging to the kids, and if they absorb some of the sounds and symbols into their subconscious and it leads to them being open to the ideas behind Buddhism later in life, then I will be gratified. While I'm certainly not a practicing Buddhist, I would never dispute the impact learning about Buddhism early in my life had on my emotional development and world view. If nothing else, it will sound very cool. And its all free and full of kids and their grown-ups being creative and immersed in art, so whats not to like?