In many ways, Soundlab is the most recent manifestation of an older tradition of experimentation with electronic music, dating back at least to Sun Ra in the 1950's.
With more than 100 works, from early etchings to more recent drawings on computer and iPad, it's a reminder of the 76-year-old's constant experimentation.
Forty New Zealand female rabbits of approximately 5 kg and 11 months old were chosen as experimentation animals.
To bridge gaps in the trail of evidence, Ms. Hodson uses the logic of dance technique, her scholar's knowledge of the choreographer's stylistic proclivities, exhaustive experimentation and old-fashioned intuition.
To gain entry, Anna first had to send an erotic essay and a photo of herself to One Leg Up's founder, a husky-voiced, 33-year-old proselytizer for sexual experimentation who goes by the name Palagia.
However, with four songs alone clocking in at 40 minutes, The Final Frontier becomes less an exercise in experimentation than old-fashioned endurance, and the hushed-intro-bombastic-chorus dynamic begins to grate a little.
Animals were acclimatized to the vivarium for at least 4 weeks, and were 12 to 16 weeks old at the beginning of experimentation (in any given experiment, all animals were of the same age), average weight was 260 g for males and 175 g for females.
"Agon" here recaptures its old sense of difficulty, risk, experimentation.
At the end of his life, Payne comes full circle, back from the avant-garde experimentation to the old songs -- to make the first song, taps, the last song.
Silly Symphonies such as The Goddess of Spring (1934) and The Old Mill (1937) served as experimentation grounds for new techniques such as the animation of realistic human figures, special effects animation, the use of the multiplane camera, an invention which split animation artwork layers into several planes, allowing the camera to appear to move dimensionally through an animated scene.
