array

If I stand by one knothole on a wooden floor in an arena, and talk just about the one knothole I will miss the whole array. The community context of which the knothole is a part.

As I look through the materials of Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen I find plenty of calendar dates for meetings, workshops, classes, and the like. Basically, knotholes.

There was a book Dad kept around the house when I was growing up called Sound Sculpture. Dad's metal works were on pages 68 to 79. Complete with photos and text. There was one other guy in the book whose music I had listened to. Harry Partch. His album was called the "Delusion of Fury." I can't remember if it was Dad or me that checked it out from Link Library. I loved the click clacks, violin whines and low chanting. It was an orchestra of hand built instruments Partch made himself and the whole album was amazing. Listen to it here    https://youtu.be/io9PKmm0kn8  and the staging of the performance here https://youtu.be/TKU0KBivZ7c.

As an organizer, I now realize that Dad's work was not done in a vacuum. Indeed many curious folks were experimenting with steel and funny-looking contraptions, pushing the boundaries of art and music. Just like Harry Partch had done. The book that was a trophy at our house was assembled and authored by John Grayson of Vancouver, Canada.

According to Grayson, Doris Shadbolt and Tony Emery of the Vancouver Art Gallery arranged the Sound Sculpture exhibit which involved most of the artists described in the book. He credited David Rosenboom, Joan Costello, and Stuart Calder.

Thanks to Mr. Grayson and his associates the discoveries of Marxie got to be shared around the world. From the Table of Contents one can see the bigger net, the great catch of Grayson, and the folks who like Marxie were fascinated and captivated by the sounds they created.

Dad was 53 years old when the book came out. I was a freshman at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. My brother was at Seward Senior High School. Sound Sculptures was published in 1975 by the Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada.

Contents:
Part 1: Essays on Sound Sculpture
BERNARD BASCHET
Structures Sonores
FRANCOIS BASCHET
Structures Sonores and the Future
A.VILLEMINOT
Sketches of Large Scale Baschet Sound Sculptures
HARRY BERTOIA
Sound Sculptures
ALLAN KAPROW
Animation: Stephan Von Huene's Sound Sculpture
STEPHAN VON HUENE
Photo Albums
DAVID JACOBS
Notebook
REINHOLD PIEPER MARXHAUSEN
Variations on the Theme for Listening to Door Knobs
CHARLES MATTOX
The Evolution of My Audio-Kinetic Sculptures

Part 2: Heritages and Attitudes
Introduction
HARRY PARTCH
Monophonic Just Intonation (excerpted)
HARRY PARTCH
No Barriers
LOU HARRISON
Lou Harrion's Music Primer (excerpted)
GYORGY KEPES
The New Landscape in Art and Science (excerpted)
R. MURRAY SCHAFER
The Graphics of Musical Thought

Part 3: Future Directions
Introduction
DAVID ROSENBOOM
Vancouver Piece
WALTER WRIGHT
Videotape kitchen Notes
DAVID ROTHENBERG
Visual Music - A New Art Form
JOHN CHOWING
The Simulation of Moving Sound Sources (excerpted)
Corporeal Sound Sculpture
COREY FISCHER
Transitions
JOHN GRAYSON
A Sound Awareness Workshop

Part 4: Practical Projects and Possibilities
WILLIAM COLVIG
A Western Gamelan
PAUL EARLS
Sounding Space: Drawing Room Music
IVOR DARREG
The Amplifying Clavichord
TONY PRICE
A Musical Carillon
A Concert of Factory Sirens and Steam Whistels
LUIS FRANGELLA
Rain Music 2: A Large Scale Environmental Sound Sculpture
MAX DEAN
A Sound Activated Sound Sculpture
Sound Sewage
Selected Readings
A Request to Sound Sculptors/ Photo Credits

About the Author:
John Grayson is a sound sculptor, university lecturer, experimental theatre producer, and farmer. He also occasionally produces television programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Over the years he has organized and conducted numerous workshops, seminars, international conferences and exhibitions for a diverse range of institutions in such areas as: the theatre arts; perceptual awareness; computer art systems; sound sculpture; expanded music systems; and various facets of music education. He is currently the Managing Director of the Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada.
 

For more images from that book, CLICK on https://www.google.com/search?q=john+grayson,+1975,+Sound+Sculpture&biw=1024&bih=710&noj=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=MANWVbfIBcndsAW86YCgBg&ved=0CB4QsAQ, accessed May 15, 2015.

(photo of Vancouver Art Gallery awning by Melissa Baker, http://vanartgallery.bc.ca/about-us/about-us.html, accessed May 15, 2015)
(Marxhausen pages, courtesy of http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/15235454616/reinhold-pieper-marxhausen-1922-2011-was-an, Accessed May 15, 2015)