Sound Museum

Right now

Before we go anyplace else

I want you to go with me to a special place, that i know

It's a museum

But, it isn't an ordinary museum

It's a very abstract museum in which they show sound paintings

If you can say that you show sound

But, i don't see why you can't

But, here we are in this corridor

Some of the most beautiful works of art are here

Here's one, right here

This is by a very fine young artist

Here, let me turn it on

That sold for two thousand dollars

Makes a lot of money, actually, doing these things

But now i'd like to turn your attention to this work by an artist who is a

World war one veteran

Actually i don't feet that this, for me, says what he intended itto say

And yet there are those who listen to it and it says a great deal to them

Well here, i'll turn it on and you'll see what i mean

You can see that he uses limited color range, of course that's understandable

I'm glad that it's here, though

But, enough of that lets go on to the next work i want you to see

Now this is a sound painting, that is indicative of the neurotic feeling of our time

The artist is very young, shows great promise, and i'm glad that the work is exhibited here

Let me turn this painting on

I think you can see my point, now the artist that did this, fortunately, is under seditives at the

Moment and we expect that his later work will be much calmer and quieter

But we do like to give these young neurotic artists a chance

And so i'm glad that the museum has been big about the whole thing, if it were

But, lets go on because there's one work here that's been done by jonnes cunningham

This is a professer from another country ,actually, but his work is reveared here

We have quite a few of his works, but this particular one i want you to listen to very carefully

Because it has an exquisite sense of rythym

This is a young man who has six children, and it's amazing to me that he can

Turn out this kind of work at home, with the children around

But he says that they help him

If you'll read it, cunningham says "dedicated to my six children"

Well here, i'll turn it on and you can hear it for yourself

It's just beautiful

Yes, that is one work that the museum should well be proud of

However, i would like to have you come with me now and we'll open this black door at the end of

The corridor, here

I won't be able to keep it open very long, and i think you'll understand why

Here, i'll open it, like this, just a crack, and you listen

See what i mean?

I'll close the door

There's a reason it's black

Here, let me open up this door

It's just covered with beautiful colors

And, we'll hear what's on the other side of this door