Bowerbird

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → Taking advantage of the unique character of each instrument, members of Philadelphias venerable Network for New Music perform solos from Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958 - 59), offering a broad sampling instrumental timbres and compositional styles. These works will be performed in tandem with the choreographed movements…

Utilizing modular synthesizer, computer, drum kit and motorized percussive objects Vida and Keszler play an ecstatic form of electro-acoustic music. Ben Vida is a Brooklyn based composer, improviser and sound artist. He produces compositions that use analog and digital synthesizing technologies and focus on aural phenomena and sound localization. Ben has released over twenty records…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → JOHN CAGE'S SONG BOOKS performed by Ne(x)tworks Ne(x)tworks Joan La Barbara - voice Shelley Burgon - harp Yves Dharamraj - cello Miguel Frasconi - glass Stephen Gosling - piano; Ariana Kim - violin Christopher McIntyre - trombone, laptop As with many of Cage's works, Song Books is indeterminate with…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → As with many of Cage's works, Song Books is indeterminate with regard to performance. In order to highlight the immense and open possibilities of the score, Cage: Beyond Silence offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience multiple versions of this work, further inviting audiences to engage with the ephemeral…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → ABOUT THE EVENT Pushing the boundaries of instrumental performance techniques and electro-acoustic sound production, the New England-based seven-member ensemble The BSC offers a bold interpretation of Cage’s Song Books. Ripe with texts by Thoreau, Satie, Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller and Merce Cunningham, this performance will fill the beautiful acoustic space…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → As with many of Cage's works, Song Books is indeterminate with regard to performance. In order to highlight the immense and open possibilities of the score, Cage: Beyond Silence offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience multiple versions of this work, further inviting audiences to engage with the ephemeral…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → • Variations I (1958) performed by Christopher Colucci and Jorge Cousineau • Variations II (1961) performed by Nate Wooley and Susan Alcorn • Variations III (1962) performed by Bonnie Jones and Jesse Kudler With vastly open and indeterminate scores and happenings, Variations I – VIII (1958 – 1967) is…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → Pianist Margaret Leng Tan returns for a performance of one of John Cage’s most important works, Sonatas and Interludes (1946 – 48). Percussive and rhythmic, Sonatas and Interludes is a collection of twenty pieces - sixteen sonatas and four more freely structured interludes - composed for prepared piano, a…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → Relache, longtime champions of Cages music in Philadelphia, present an interactive and multimedia evening including Hymnkus (co-commissioned by Relache in 1986), Lecture on the Weather, the vocal work Litany for the Whale, and a brand new arrangement of Apartment House 1776, a worked based on early American fuguing tunes.

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → "One7" (1990), for a solo performer, was written to celebrate the birthday of Cages friend Pauline Oliveros. It is one of a few Number Pieces in which there is no specific content whatsoever other than the time brackets. Cage instructs his performer to fill the brackets by any means…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → The internationally acclaimed JACK Quartet performs three of Cages late works for string quartet, Music for Four (1984), Four (1989) and the exceptionally rarely heard Five3 (1991) for string quartet and trombone. Unlike the chaotic, multi-centered works of the 1960s and 70s, these pieces reflect a more restrained and…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → A once in a lifetime event. Four preeminent post-Cagean composer-performers join together on the stage for a performance of Cages Four6 (1992), a work dedicated to musician and composer Pauline Oliveros on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday. Scored for a quartet with any way of producing sounds, Four6…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → New Yorks Either / OR performs three of Cages final works, Four3 (scored for one or two pianos, twelve rain sticks, violin or oscillator and silence) and Two6 (for violin and piano), both based on a chance-derived score called Extended Lullaby, based on Erik Saties Vexations, as well as…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → Curtis 20/21 and the Curtis Percussion Studio present a portrait of John Cage. The program will focus exclusively on his percussion works from the 1940s, including Third Construction, Amores, Living Room Music, In a Landscape, and arrangements of his Sonatas and Interludes, interspersed with video recorded interview segments with…

Part of Cage: Beyond Silence → Laurel Karlik Sheehan gave the Canadian premiere of Two2 with Jack Behrens in 1990. Rob Haskins is a respected Cage expert and scholar. Together they bring an authority and expertise to this performance of Two2.