Multimedia performance to be played in Old Cabell Friday night
University Music Professor Matthew Burtner will premiere his new multimedia electroacoustic theatre work this Friday night at 8:15 in Old Cabell Hall.
The piece called "Ukiuq Tulugaq" or "Winter Raven" was inspired by Burtner's early childhood in a small village near the Arctic Ocean.
The composition combines the elements of voice, instrumentals, electronics, dance, video projections, and theatre to portray the environmental change from fall into winter.
This 90-minute, three-act composition metaphorically relates to an Inuit creation story.In order to explain the seasonal change from fall to winter, the story says that the Raven, Tulugaq, creates the world from snow.
The Virginia Center for Computer Music is producing the event, which will be conducted by Music Professor Michael Slon.
Oklahoma State University decides to maintain an open forum for chalking
Chalkings written by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Association upset many students at Oklahoma State University just before Spring Break.
The university's gay rights organization wrote certain messages like "queer lane" and "straight lane" in bicycle lanes and then switched the labels every 10 feet.
The OSU administration issued a statement saying, "If you're going to limit bad speech you have to limit good speech, too."
Associate General Counsel for OSU Scott Fern said that even though the chalkings are protected by the first amendment, OSU does not have to allow chalkings at all.
For constitutionally protected speech, OSU can designate areas on campus as open, limited, or closed forums.
OSU does not have a specific area designated as an open forum but decided to allow the chalkings.
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