Page Two 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. "EXQUISITE DELICIOUS COMEDY!" --Detroit News TON IGHT at 8:00 P.M.! "LIKE CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES!" Ann Arbor News MAT. SUN. at 2:30 P,.M.! Ba(111(4of (Cantada The National Ballet of Canada las review will appear in Sunday's Da Daily Official Bulletini S.TI'UIDAY, OCTOBER 18 General Notices WoodrOw Wilson FleUowships: Fit- culty are reminded that the nom- ination deadline is October 20. Letters postmarked Oct. 20 wil be accepted. They should include field of study, local address and phone number of students nominated. Send to Prof. Otto Gra , Dept. of German, 1079 Frieze. Senate Assembly: Mlon, Oct. 20,:i 15 p.m., Rackhamn Amphitheater. Agnda: 1. Consideration of minutes of regular imeeting of Sept. 15 and special meeting of Sept. 29: 2. Announcements a n d Comumn nica tions: 3. ROTC - Final re- port of the Academic Affairs Comm. 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