BOG WORKS:
John  Driscoll Instruments @ Washington Project for the Arts

BOG WORKS:  John Driscoll Instruments @ Washington Project for the Arts

1975 – Friday, August 15
BOG WORKS
Presented by Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Admission $2.00
John Driscoll, Electronic Composer/Musician
Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company

Home-Made Speakers and Dance Program:
Installation performance with John Driscoll, electronic composer/musician/sculptor, with Maida Withers Dance Construction Company in the open theater space of Washington Project for the Arts, 1227 G Street N.W., Washington, DC, in the large, open, 3rd Floor  performance space.

Bog Works features an installation of six diverse home-made loudspeakers (audio) hanging by ropes that extend high in the room to the arched roof ceiling and hang close to the floor through the large renovated WPA space, Washington, DC.  Two battery operated lights are hung from the ceiling and available for dancers to manipulate along with the loudspeakers. John, located on the floor in the center of the open space, is surrounded by the audience in the very large open space.

Bog Works – Music:   Bog Works music, written and performed by John Driscoll, is an electronic/acoustical sound environment which utilizes a number of specifically constructed speakers, electronic speed-controlled tape machines and home-built circuitry for simultaneously modifying tape signals. John Driscoll, composer-musician.

Bog Works – Dance:  MWDCCo dancers: Maida Withers, John Bailey, Brook Andrews, JoAnn Sellars, Betty Tittsworth are skilled and innovative improvisors.  Bog Works began with dancers wearing battery operated lights.  The dancers open script accommodates physical interaction with the audience, other dancers, and the rope installation.   Two battery operated lights hang on ropes that swing, turn on and off, focus on walls, audience members, other dancers.

Bog Works – a fascinating, unusual auditory and light spectacle.
Dancers move among the loudspeakers and the audience, interacting with the space and the sound generated by John’s electronic music.  The hanging speakers put sound into motion (i.e. ropes swing back and forth, wind up and whirl as unwind). Dancers are also lighting designers by choosing to move the hanging battery-operated lights, turning them off and on, spotlighting other dancers, the audience, the composer, and the walls as well as actively swinging and  rotating the lights. The audience is free to move to new locations in the space to hear the sounds in a new way.

Additional Music Performance:
Music, Three in a Row, an electronic composition by Paul DeMarinis for custom-built electronic switching modules.  These modules are played as a musical instrument by the switching of electronically generated and concrete sounds.  Music by Paul De Marinis and John Driscoll.

John Driscoll / 1975:  (BFA, MFA) John has been involved in sculpture, dance, film making puppetry, air conditioning and intermedia.  His present work with electronic systems for sound, movement and visuals include UNDER THE PUTTING GREEN, a two-year work in progress, and BOG WORKS.  John Driscoll, DCCo composer/musician, is presently performing with Pbnumbral Raincoast, David Tudor, and Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company.”  https://maidadance.com/collaborators/john-driscoll/

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