Acting as a metronomic accent amidst a room of otherwise subtle sounds, New York - based artist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler's newly commissioned work
using piano wires crisscrosses the gallery, periodically struck by mechanical beaters.
It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element of boys» books» for that's the moment when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief of research, leans his
piano stool back against the wall of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could
use their radio equipment, a wrap of canvas around a chicken -
wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.