CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
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Larry Funk/KANSAN
Morton Subotnick, contemporary music composer and professor at the California Institute of the Arts, rehearses on his Buchla 400 synthesizer. His performance last night in Murphy Hall was part of the 1984 Symposium of Contemporary Music in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Bill calls for buckling up children
From Staff and Wire Reports
TOPEKA — The House yesterday tentatively approved a bill that would require parents who transport children under 4 years old in the front seat of the car to have a child passenger restraining device.
Parents found guilty of not using the safety device for their young children
court costs would be waived if the parents later proved they had purchased an approved restraining system.
Current Kansas law requires a safety restraining system for children under 2 years old, but does not provide for aReply.
The House is expected to take a final vote on the measure today.
that she expected the measure to pass the House today.
She said that 31 children 3 years old and younger had died on Kansas roads from 1981 to 1983 and that "none were restrained by a safety device."
of the 44 states that have passed laws concerning child passenger safety, she said, only three, including five, have no penalty for violations.
Composer combines lighting electronics for unique concert
Two television screens, supported by stereo amplifiers, flicker brightly in the front of a darkened auditorium.
By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
The screens serve as bookends for a large network of entangled grey and blue dots.
To the right of the stage stands a tall, thin woman, hunched over, playing a black electronic piccolo and reading a book on music from the composer, Morton Subotnick.
Behind two long wooden tables, with his arms stretched out above a maze of knobs and switches, sit Subotnick, an adult in an orange shirt and a pencil clutched between his teeth.
As the stage lights reflect off his damp forehead, his eyes grow wild behind his silver wire-framed glasses. He's a pale face with a shrill of the electronic piccolo reacts
with the flashy visual display on the two television screens.
The composition is titled "Parallel Lines," and is a suite for piccolo, synthesizer and "electric ghost score" performed by flutist Dorothy Stone and Subotnick, the composer, arranger and composer of the Buchla 400 synthesizer computer.
The 50-year-old composer first became famous on the West Coast studying under avant-garde musicians Leon Krichner and Darius Milhaud.
He is now a visiting professor in music composition for the University of Maryland, the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University.
"The Music of Morton Subotnick," performed last night in Swarthowton Reital Hall in Murphy Hall, is far from the mainstream of contemporary music, but Subotnick said that his music was very easy to handle.
"I think it would be fair to say that a person who finds this music strange is
in the minority of the educated people who have tried to find out what is going on in life," he said.
"The sound is controlled by a digital computer, programmed differently for every piece so that the gestural quality is altered in each one," he said.
"It's not a controversy; it's up to the audience to accept the fact that we're running on it."
"A certain instrument is amplified through the three modules of sound pitch, loudness and the location of sound between two speakers," he said.
"Parallel Lines" is one of Subnicktin's most recent examples of making what he calls ghost pieces — a technique that only Subnicktin can explain.
Thus the digital program produces its own set of attacks and rhythms, adding another dimension to the sound of the instrument or voice.
The computer also produces on television monitors a visual display of
Cardarella's autopsy gives few clues
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An autopsy conducted yesterday on the body of Anthony J. "Tiger" Cardarella offered little to explain the death of the businessman who authorities said had links to the city's organized crime mob.
By United Press International
The Jackson County Medical Examiner's office issued a terse statement saying Cardarella's death was due to asphyxiation, but did not say how or why.
indicate when the results would be announced.
The family planned private funeral services.
The body of the 58-year-old man was found Monday in the trunk of his luxury car during a routine search of the vehicle, which had been impounded at the city lot.
Cardarella had been missing 17 days family members said. He had not been reported missing, one of his sons explained, because it was not unusual
for him to be out of town for days at a time.
Police spokesman Sgt. Jim TREEce said Cardarella's body was found about 11 a.m. Monday by Phillip Cardarella and police officers during the search of the car. The car had been towed by a city truck Sunday night on a complaint by ABF Freight System Inc., which reported the car had been illegally parked on its property for several days, Treece said.