A special 10-foot sound cube will be in the Kenneth Goldman Lounge of the Duffield Hall atrium Thursday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., offering a unique, multichannel immersive sound environment.

The MorrowSound Cube, a 3-D sound system that creates a totally enveloping sound world, has recently returned from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Italy, where it was a featured exhibit.

In the afternoon of March 30, the New York City-based sound artist and designer Charlie Morrow will demonstrate the cube for students in the course Playing With Space and Time. Morrow is a visiting lecturer for this new course, which is funded through a Faculty Innovation in Teaching award, a provost initiative.

Sound is one of the topics that students in Playing With Space and Time are exploring. The culmination of their work will be the creation of online galleries for public viewing. To access these virtual exhibits, visitors will be given a complimentary CD containing software and instructions.

"In comparison to a conventional work of music, sound art is made in order to signal a new listening experience, one that is often more active or interactive, and one that implies a multidisciplinary approach," said Morrow. "Works of sound artists play on the fringes of our often-unconscious aural experience of a world dominated by the visual. Sound art sculpts sound in space and time, reacts to environments and reshapes them, and frames ambient 'found' sound, altering our concepts of space, time, music and noise."

Morrow is a conceptualist -- and maple syrup maker -- whose music work ranges over many styles and forms, from events for media and public spaces to commercial soundtracks, new media productions, museum installations and programming for broadcast and festivals. Assembling expert project groups, Morrow employs a collaborative style that fuses arts, artists and environment. Technological expertise creates the basis for a significant portion of his work, much of which utilizes a combination of the newest and very old technologies.

Additional information on Morrow is available at http://www.cmorrow.com/. To arrange a specific time to meet with the artist, contact Cornell Theory Center outreach manager Margaret Corbit at corbitm@tc.cornell.edu or professor of art Barry Perlus at bap8@cornell.edu.