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Intermedia. Hypermedia and the Sublime.
Lecture on the Weather:
John Cage in Buffalo
January 23 – February 14, 2010
John Toth
"Chance Chants for John Cage, (1984-2010) 1:05.
Composed by John Toth.
Realized by John Malinowski, at the Burchfield penney art center. Speaker, amplif ier, microphone, and one die.
John Toth’s Chance Chants for John Cage is an installation and composition for
interactive performance using chance operations. This performance installation
uses the human voice aided by a microphone and power amplifier to activate a die
to roll and bounce across a speaker cone until the performer runs out of breath. Once the die has stopped the performer uses the random number on the resting
die to reset the volume and tone on the power amplifier and as the number for
a second vocalization. This process is repeated six times and pays homage to
the chance operation procedures that were indicative of the creation process that
permutated the collaborative artworks of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
"Magnetic Reversal, #9," 1984 4:07, restaged in Nov 2009.
Conceived after attending a performance by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns and David Tudor at Center Theater in Buffalo, NY in 1984.
Magnetic Reversal, high definition HD video. Recorded in 2009 using a dice that is evocative of the chance operations of John Cage who influenced this work from the 1980’s. The red marble loosely suggests the pure form of modernism that is also indicative of my work in the 1980’s.
John Toth
"Magnetic Reversal / 446543245144," 1984 4:11.
Magnetic Reversal is an intermedia artwork that was conceived in 1984. The sound source for this composition used a Teac 4 track tape recorder as an instrument. The outputs of tracks one and two directly placed into the inputs of tracks three and four can only produce a sound loop. Sounds were produced by manipulating the volume outputs of tracks one and two in relation to the volume inputs of tracks three and four. The resulting feedback produced unexpected rhythms and frequencies with the slightest variations in out/input manipulations. To visualize the relationship of magnetism on particles I used a horizontal speaker as a magnetic generator and variety of bouncing objects; steel bearings, ping-pong balls, marbles and dice.
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