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communication. Amy (Hamouda) worked with him too. When he was with the Creative Associates in 1968 in Buffalo, he performed a Busotti piece using beans dropped in drum heads - very eerie sounds - and also a sound sculpture that Amy made which ran in the background. Good to hear from you, and keep me informed about what you are up to. - Jack John - I am forwarding the following recent communications between Bruce Orr and me and hope something connects for you. Amy (Hamouda) and I lived next door to you on Claremont, in Buffalo, in 1968-69(?) when you were with Terry Riley, George Crumb and others in the Creative Associates program and I was teaching art at SUNY College. Then I think you moved into our house when we went to Siena, Italy, for a year. Amy and I are very interested in what has evolved for you and others -Terry died recently? - John and Marge Hassell - long ago divorced? - Niles Bullinger (sp?), George Crumb, etc. I have spent the last fifteen years mainly composing, using sampled sounds and phrases set up in sequencer scores. This may surprise you, unless you happen to recall the tape loop pieces I was doing in '68. If you care to reply to this, please do. We'll be happy to hear from you. Best regards, Jack Bice To Claire Shlanahan, Dublin City University April 12, 2001 Claire - I am happy to reply, although I'm not sure what assistance I can be. However, I shall add some comments: One might think that a large body of works produced over a lifetime could somehow summarize an artist's life; but it cannot, because any life is more complex than ever can be recounted or archived. Outside the creative act, life evolves in myriad other dimensions. Making art is just a part of life, with each bit of exotic, expressive formulation, as it come into being, existing in time, idea, feeling and action - vaporous and vanishing. Each fleeting faction might be recorded in the art product, but finally it is all witnessed superficially, indirectly, incompletely by others. So, art making is private, the art a curiosity. With all of this convoluted philosophy, perhaps you will understand something of my habits: I become intrigued with an idea or perhaps an action, tool or material. I intuitively and spontaneously, without planned purpose, move things into relationships. This might be doodling with pencil on a scrap of paper, turning over a few notes or chords on a keyboard, pointing a video camera on its own monitor or attacking a large canvas with a full palette; but the results always become developed as expressive statements - aesthetic/expressive order from chaos - and usually surprising and gratifying. I think of this private act as a strange exploration of life from within myself which is inscrutable and otherwise inaccessible. I hope this helps your project. Let me know what develops. - Jack Bice |
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