But for composer Pauchi Sasaki, the aesthetic goes deeper – it is a way to express humanity. She has since developed the concept into the “speaker dress,” a shoulder-to-knee wall of 100 speakers the size found on shelf stereos, and made it an instrument itself. She performed on speaker dress as she recently premiered her latest piece, “GAMA XVI,” in the presence of Glass at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The speaker dress does not in itself have an acoustic capacity; it is connected to programming by Sasaki. Glass credited his own musical relationship in the 1960s with sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar as critical to his career.

Source: The Express Tribune December 19, 2017 07:36 UTC