5. JUNE 5

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM

What instruments stood out?

Were there any that didn't sound like they looked?

What are some basic ways for humans to make sounds?

How are the mechanisms of musical instruments related to the human body?

How are the forms of musical instruments related to the human body?

What happens when you add frets to an instrument? Is the human voice fretted?

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed" (Antoine Lavoisier). How related to composing? To new media. 

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BOZAR [Palestine]

Describe the Palestine show using three separate adjectives. What formal elements made it seem so?

What was the relationship between the palestine installation and the Horta architecture? Try to describe the relationship specifically.

Is the Palestine exhibit related to surrealism and Magritte? How?

How did the sound change the show? how did the architectural configuration (with rooms off a center circle) change the show?

What is high art? Low art? What was the relationship of this installation to the two?

Anything else?