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THE MICHIGAN DAIL'Y'
Saturday, October 18, 1969
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, October 1 8, 1969
Of
-records--
antiphony
and phonemes
7l P1TBURg 1OUSB
STEVE ELLIOT
-HEY! He sings!
-HEY! He writes what he sings!
-HEY! He plays git-tar!
-HE'S from New York! HEY!
TONIGHT, doors open at 8 p.m. Music opens at 9 p.m.
By JOE PEHRSON
Walk into a room sometime.
A rap is already underway and
words dart from here to there-
snatches of a conversation which
build until they finally weave
a train of thought. At this time
you glibly join the conversa-
tion, but are you really into
the process? Do you notice the
building blocks of words that
raise this tower of Babel and
build these ideas? Kenneth Ga-
buro, in Music for Voices and
E~:lectronic Sounds (Nonesuch
1-71199) works with words,
stacking them into thoughts.
combining fragments in a pro-
cess he calls antiphony.
Imagine one person stationed
at, each corner of a room. All
four work together to make a
coherent thought, but none are
permitted to speak in stences.
Each person has two or three
Sords of a sentence which he
repeats, words which combine
with the words of the others in
patterns, and which finally con-
vey an impression. The human
mind is able to grasp ideas and
patterns at a much quicker rate
than permitted by convernional
speech.
Words don't even have to be
used: Syllables, and phonemes,
the smallest units of language,
when presented almost random-
ly are assimilated by the mind
and, in some strange way, sense
is made out of this zap process.
McLuhan was one to recognize
this potential, and saw tech-
nology as one way to exploit the
full -power of the mind: not
only is a thought understood,
but the listener becomes a part
of the thought, completely as-
similated. Gaburo is working
with some of these concepts
musically. He is concerned with
a n t i p h o n y: juxtaposition of
words, thoughts, and sounds.
Imagine the same synthesis
of sounds, the same process in
another language, a musical
language with syntax all its
own. Music may carry the same
ideas as a spoken language; it
may have the same content, but
use: an approach which is less
logical, and at the same time
less contained. Music and at its
ultimate, mixed media, flashes
ideas in many forms. It has no
time to wait for a subject and
verb--subject. verb, and modi-
fiers are stated simultaneously
and an idea results, an idea far
richer in levels of meaning than
any approached by spoken or
written language.
Gaburo, in his series of anti-
phonies-- Pearl - White Mo-
ments, distends and fragments
spoken language. Language joins
lie other media as it evolves
from its traditional form. The
antiphony, the electric bom-
bardment of separate fragments,
exists on several levels. First is
the verbal onslaught, already
mentioned. Second is the musi-
cal bombardment, tones and
electronic fragments stated sep-
arately and simultaneously. The
third antiphony, the most im-
p~ortant for Gaburo, is a com-
bination of the first two.
Gaburo, thinking along the
lines of mixed media, wishes
to convey an idea through a
combination of the arts. Both
languages, the language of
music and the spoken language,
must be speaking the same idea.
Both are built upon one an-
other, and he must choose
sounds which combine, in anti-
phony, to present the same
meaning as the spoken sen-
tences. The electronic and in-
strumental sounds are chosen
to convey the same content and
the same emotions as the poetic
text.
Gaburo even carries his third
antiphony one step further -
the verbal sounds, the poetry,
is sung: both media are com-
bined in a single act, the song
form. Each syllable as it is sung
carries both languages and the
interplay is part of his process
of antiphony. This is perhaps
the most important idea in his
work - - he must choose elec-
tronic sounds and pitches which
contrast or complement the in-
herent sound of language.
A certain vowel sound, or
phoneme, for examlple, has .a
certain color of its own. This is
easily seen in a comparison of
languages. The color of the
English language, for example.
is quite different from that of
French or the Scandinavian lan-
guages. The sounds are dif-
ferent, and the particular
sounds in any one language
may be complemented electro-
nically. This, of course, has very
little to do with the actual
meaning of a language, but it
is one of the first attempts to
coreleate electronic sound and
pitch with the sound fabric of
a spoken language.
Gaburo is both poet and mu-
sician. He avoids classification
and is working against the type
of specialization in the arts
which destroys successful at-
tempts at mixed media. He is
concerned with total effect, em-
phasizing both the separate
qualities of poetic and musical
thought and elements common
to these different arts. He sees
all art as means to the -ame
end-communication, and under-
stands the power implicit in the
combination of different media.
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