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Pasadena Arts Council
65 South Grand Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
www.pasadenaartscouncil.org

EVENT(S):

KC COLE AND DAVID POLITZER IN CONVERSATION: Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Caltech
Free Admission
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
7:00pm

K.C. Cole, a longtime science writer for the Los Angeles Times and currently with USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, will engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the creation of ideas and the sources of inspiration for the next generation of physicists with Caltech’s David Politzer, the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics and 2004 Nobel Laureate. Cole’s latest book, "Something Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up," is a memoir/biography of her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, the self-proclaimed "uncle" of the atomic bomb and founder of San Francisco's world-renowned "museum of awareness," the Exploratorium.

ALCANCES: Ahmanson Auditorium, Art Center College of Design
Free Admission
Friday, November 6, 2009
7:30pm

Bruno Louchouarn’s newest full-length work will be performed by acclaimed pianist Vicki Ray and the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. Louchouarn, also a cognitive scientist, calls the work Alcances (“Reaches” in Spanish) referring to “the far reaches of the mind.” The 40-minute work explores music as a creative extension of the mind in constant evolution, employing musical tools from simple artifacts such as bowls to complex instruments such as the marimba and piano. The relationship of this piece to “origins” is informed by research on the evolution of the human faculty of imagination and creativity mediated by tools and instruments as extensions of the body and mind. It also refers to the fact that musical material itself becomes an artifact that undergoes an evolutionary process in history. This special commission is presented by Pasadena Arts Council to complement the exhibition TOOLS in Art Center’s Williamson Gallery; the Gallery will be open before and after the performance.