Letter from the President / Contents
Music faculty Ulrich Krieger performed his underwater composition Aquacoustica inside the CalArts pool this past March. Aided by faculty colleague Clay Chaplin (Music mfa 99), who manned the sound board and computer topside, Krieger, a certified scuba diver, plunged in and played cymbals, metal plates, Chinese stress balls, a Tupperware box and a plastic didgeridoo underwater for more than an hour, with the resulting music emanating from submerged hydrophones and audible only in the pool. “People have no directional hearing underwater,� Krieger said, adding that sound also travels four times faster in water than through air.