Plus shorts with music by Terry Riley and Morton Subotnick. About to celebrate his eightieth birthday, composer Lou Harrison is still a fount of ecstatic, youthful energy. His willingness to explore new musical forms, to enter other cultures looking for inspiration, persists to this day. Eric Marin's jubilant portrait "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create" captures Harrison at home in the Santa Cruz mountains and in concert with his gamelan group. The ever-effervescent composer talks about his formative musical interests and the early influence of Henry Cowell, from whom he discovered the possibilities of percussive musics. Sometime later, Harrison came upon Harry Partch's book Genesis of a Music and soon immersed himself in what he calls "the arts of tuning." Virgil Thomson, John Cage, and Harrison's partner Bill Colvig broaden this artful mix of music and memories. The composer's lifelong work with instrument building found its ultimate expression in the construction of a gamelan ensemble. Among these multi-timbred instruments, Harrison seems attuned and at peace.-Steve Seid (27.5 mins, 16mm, From the director) Followed by: Corridor (Standish Lawder, U.S., 1970). Complex superimpositions of an abstracted hallway are intensified by Terry Riley's electronic soundtrack. Stroboscopic effects and a ghostlike female figure add to the dislocation. (22 mins, B&W, 16mm, PFA Collection) Hungers (Ed Emshwiller, Morton Subotnick, U.S., 1988). An electronic opera by Morton Subotnick about our basic hungers-food, love, sex, and power-with Joan La Barbara singing in the midst of digital space. (28 mins, Color, 3/4" video, From EAI)