This installation is created with the space of the Diapason Gallery in mind. The space is divided into two parts: a large public room (with a piano inherently implying sound), and a more intimate private room. The sound-views, of these two spaces, are different and consequently, their potentiality for communication is also distinct. They represent two different artificial points on a continuum. A visual artist may talk in terms of still-life (large room) and portraits (small room.) Clearly, we look differently at, and listen differently to a variety of objects in diverse spaces. One possible description of this variance is one where outside we attend to sounds in more general terms following the contour of large musical objects, attempting to identify cues that will represent the whole. And inside, in gradation, we listen with a greater attention to detail while focusing our ears on the makeup of a single sound-event. Our ability to concentrate our ears, at any given situation, on a single sound within a large canvass of sounds, is enhanced by the space. This installation may use and arrange sounds in a fashion that is informed by these considerations.

Amnon Wolman composes in varied styles and for diversified forces of musicians grounded in a essential interest in experimentation and a belief that music as an art-form expresses many dissimilar ideas of beauty. His interest in technology guides him, in recent years, to manipulating the spatial placement of speakers and using them as musical instruments, tp pursuing the interaction between live performers and technology, and to a collaboration with performers inÊ creation of pieces as equal partners. His catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different ensembles, film music, and music for theater and dance.Ê His recently premiered pieces include "Picnic Site" used for a choreography by Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton for the Lyon Biannale in September 2003, "End Divided Road" for Flute and electronics for Mario Carolli at the TRAIETTORIE Festival in Parma Italy also in September 2003, "Cruising Prohibited when Lights Flashing" for the Gay Gotham Chorus at the Greenwich House, NY, "her mind moves upon silence", for harpsichord and electronic sounds, for Vivienne Spiteri in Toronto, both premiered in October 2003. Amnon was recently appointed as a professor of composition at the Conservatory of Music, and the Director of the Center for Computer Music, at Brooklyn College, as well as at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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