Title

Linearity

Year

1968

Instrumentation

a video work for harp & live electronics;

Notes

A television piece for Harp and Live Electronics (1968) created as a part of the Rockefeller Foundation's inquiry into the artistic capacities of broadcast television. Beverly Bellows, harp, music and video concepts by the composer

Reviews

"Linearity was composed during the heyday of San Francisco public television, ...when it was a truly generative force in Bay Area arts. Its creation was part of a Rockefeller-sponsored interdisciplinary project exploring the role television might play in active collaboration with other, established, art forms. ...the fluid poetry of its black and white imagery ... suggested 19th century engravings — electronic engravings. A harp was chosen because of the vertical linearity of its strings..."
—Howard Hersh

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