Digging in the Archives: Alan Rath

Viewpoints: Alan Rath

on view at the

Walker Art Center

July 21 - September 29, 1991

Digging in the Archives: John Cage, Williams Mix

John Cage

Williams Mix for magnetic tape

1952

manuscript excerpt

pencil on graph paper, 8.5 x 11 inches

signed in pencil

This is a work for eight tracks of 1/4” magnetic tape. The score is a pattern for the cutting and splicing of sounds recorded on tape. Its rhythmic structure is 5-6-16-3-11-5. Sounds fall into 6 categories: A (city sounds), B (country sounds), C (electronic sounds), D (manually produced sounds), E (wind produced sounds), and F ("small" sounds, requiring amplification). Pitch, timbre, and loudness are notated as well. Approximately 600 recordings are necessary to make a version of this piece. The compositional means were I Ching chance operations. Cage made a realization of the work in 1952/53 (starting in May 1952) with the assistance of Earle Brown, Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, Ben Johnston, and others. Duration: 4 minutes.

Digging in the Archives: Charlotte Moorman

Charlotte Moorman:

From Weaponry to Livingry, A Performance at Art Chicago,1984

The title for Moorman's performance is based on an article by Buckminster Fuller 

written in 1983.

Photographs by Cal Kowal

Photograph by Peter Moore

Paul Laffoley Exhibition Review in City Beat

Steven Rosen reviewed the Paul Laffoley exhibition, The Life and Death of Elvis Presley: A Suite in this week's City Beat.

http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-30765-art_shook_up.html

Photograph by Chris Gomien

Albert Paley Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

American Metal: The Art of Albert Paley is now on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. through September 28, 2014.  Go to the following link for Susan Stamberg's npr interview with the artist from todays' Morning Edition.

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/22/333596118/with-swirls-of-steel-these-sculptures-mark-the-passage-of-people-and-time

Exhibition Review Including Ann Hamilton's Photographs at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, Ohio

A review of the exhibition Unknown: Pictures of Strangers by Steven Litt for The Plain Dealer :

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2014/07/a_captivating_transformer_stat.html

Ann Hamilton at the Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio

Ann Hamilton

ONEEVERYONE in "UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers"
June  27-September 20, 2014
Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio