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innovative instruments reviewed in philadelphia weekly

July 12th, 1995

Musical Objects/Sculptural Sound: Strange music fills Nexus this month. It flows irregularly from the cone of frozen pebbles dripping into Mineko Grimmer's North American Woods-Ash. It rattles from the forest of more than 20 whimsically floral sculptures Dan Senn has scattered on the floor. It rings from the pots and pans deftly played by Wm. Houck in his Wearever Blues AV Black Box. Most of the sculpture in the Innovative Instruments exhibit can be played by gallery visitors, though some pieces are presented with recordings which give an idea of how they might sound. It's amusing to compare Robert Roesch's severely angular Moonharp to Cynthia Norton's loopy Bread Badmitton Blues Rackets. In a video recording her performance on one of her sculpture/instruments, Norton (in the persona of Ninne Naive) is refreshingly unpretentious--as is the best work in this small show. Thru July 28 at Nexus, 137 N. Second St. --Gerald Brown
– Philadelphia Weekly

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