Marshall Yaeger's background in science and media art includes a U.S. and British patent on the "Kaleidoplex," the first improvement to the projecting kaleidoscope since its invention. He performed with his invention at New York's Bottom Line in a program starring Claude Bolling and flutist Ransom Wilson, who performed four concerts with the Kaleidoplex in a Frank Becker work for flute and synthesizer. The concerts were repeated on the West Coast in San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. In 2001, videotapes of the Kaleidoplex, as well as projections from the machine itself, formed the visual centerpieces of an award-presentation special event at the Whitney Museum.

 

To date, Marshall Yaeger has created mixed Kaleidoplex media art for eight DVD albums of organ music under the SEEmusicDVD label. Selected pieces from his albums have become one of the most popular attractions on "Classic Arts Showcase," appearing regularly on more than 400 stations throughout America.

For several years, Marshall Yaeger was the curator of the art collection of Adelaide de Menil.

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Marshall Yaeger was a Head Writer of CBS's "The Secret Storm"; co-produced the original New York off-Broadway production of Umabatha: The Zulu MacBeth; wrote more than 100 reviews for OOBR, the Off-Off-Broadway Review; and, during 2003, as "Mark Hunter," was the editor of The Hampton Sheet.

 

More than a dozen of his plays were produced at the Actors Studio, Performing Arts of Woodstock, the HB Playwrights Foundation (in plays directed by Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen, starring-among others-Christine Lahti), the Provincetown Playhouse, the Carter Theatre, and the 42nd Street Workshop.

 

As a book author, Marshall Yaeger has published Microplays, Volumes I & II (short plays that were used as texts in acting classes throughout the United States), Harmonic Mandala (a guide to the psychological powers of his invention, the Kaleidoplex), Acting Well (with Roy Scheider: a guide to discovering one's personal "Fountain of Youth"), Acting Well to Age Well (the Second Edition), and Virgil Fox (The Dish), the definitive biography of the most successful organist in history.

 

In the music field, Marshall Yaeger provided the concepts for many record albums (including the title of Paul Winter's best-selling album On Common Ground and most recently, the title and concept for Cameron Carpenter's Pictures at an Exhibition), and became a member of ASCAP after the lyrics he wrote for the patriotic song "I Love America" were recorded by Centerline Records. He has been a career consultant to many distinguished performers (such as Earl Wild, Eartha Kitt and Paul Winter), and conceived and co-founded The Albert Schweitzer Music Award - the most important recognition of humanitarianism given to performing musicians. (Winners include Isaac Stern, Catherine Dunham, Van Cliburn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Bernstein, José Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and Anna Moffo.) He also conceived and co-founded the Frank Lloyd Wright Creativity Award, last presented (posthumously) to Buckminster Fuller by Olgivanna Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West.

 

As president of The Creo Society, he independently raised more than $1 million on behalf of Elizabeth Taylor for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR). He co-produced many large fund-raising special events including the first Rockefeller University "Founders Ball" (which he conceived and named); "Dancing for Life," featuring 13 leading ballet and dance companies; the Twentieth Anniversary production of Hair - the only paid benefit event ever held in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations (which raised more than a half-million dollars for UNICEF and the Society's charitable programs); as well as a private concert series, "The Bach-Gesellschaft of New York," which was broadcast over American Public Radio.

 

A graduate of the University of California-Berkeley with a major in theatre arts, Marshall Yaeger also attended UC-Los Angeles and UC-Santa Barbara, where he was a tutorial student of Aldous Huxley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mensa.

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The Kaleidoplex™ Light Organ was invented in the 1970s as an optical projector to accompany live music improvisatorially. Whereas the common kaleidoscope (invented in 1816 by Sir David Brewster) divides an image into 6-12 "slices," the Kaleidoplex fragments an image into no less than 64 segments, and sometimes as many as 4,096 images, all traveling in different directions, "fractalizing" the music. As the noted, late pianist Samuel Lipman put it, "the Kaleidoplex infuses classical discipline into modern music and liberated autonomy into classical music."

The basic design of the patented optical invention was to project the image of a kaleidoscope through a second (and sometimes, a third) kaleidoscope, creating a complex image of beauty and harmonious symmetry. Digital electronics made precise calculations possible to accompany recorded musical performances exactly to the beat, with 1/2 second precision.

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