Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein are founding members of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), a collaborative group formed in 1973 that has been central to the evolution and continuation of David Tudor's Rainforest…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing Postal Pieces 2.0, the second iteration of “Postal Pieces,” a concert featuring living composers in Philadelphia and beyond composing postcard-sized works inspired by James Tenney’s unorthodox set of compositions. Tenney’s “Postal Pieces,” composed between 1954 and 1971, are a series of ten concise works…
Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with Mark Davenport, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. David Tudor is largely remembered for his performances of mid-twentieth-century avant-garde piano music and his close association with John Cage, but much less is known about his personal life or the intentional artist's community he…
David Tudor's musical partnership with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company spanned nearly five decades, from the company's founding in 1953 until Tudor's death in 1996. As a founding member, Tudor served not only as a virtuoso performer of revolutionary piano works but also as an essential collaborator in shaping the company's sonic identity. Working alongside…
Bowerbird is pleased to present an online conversation with John D. S. Adams, John David Fullemann, David Meschter, and Robert E. Miller, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt. David Tudor's work with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company required not only innovative compositional thinking but also the technical expertise of skilled audio engineers…
Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams performing Morton Feldman's monumental Triadic Memories, one of the towering masterworks of late 20th-century piano literature. ABOUT THE WORK Completed in 1981 and jointly dedicated to pianists Roger Woodward and Aki Takahashi, Triadic Memories is Feldman's longest solo piano composition, lasting approximately 90 minutes. Following its first…
Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams and a performance of David Tudor's Forest Speech led by Composer Inside Electronic's Phil Edelstein with Daniel Fishkin, Michael Johnsen, Victoria Keddie, Eugene Lew, and Gianna Santucci. This concert celebrates David Tudor's dual legacy as both a revolutionary pianist and electronic music pioneer. The program opens with…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Composers Inside Electronics—Phil Edelstein, Ron Kuivila, and Michael Johnsen, with Daniel Fishkin—performing works by David Tudor. Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), formed in 1973 with David Tudor, pioneered a collaborative approach to live electronic music that treated circuits and components as instruments in themselves rather than as tools. This closing concert…
David Tudor's musical partnership with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company spanned nearly five decades, from the company's founding in 1953 until Tudor's death in 1996. As a founding member, Tudor served not only as a virtuoso performer of revolutionary piano works but also as an essential collaborator in shaping the company's sonic identity. Working alongside…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing solo and chamber music of Elliott Carter. PROGRAM: Two Thoughts About the Piano Figment V for marimba Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II Epigrams Enchanted Preludes Gra for clarinet Canon for 4 ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Anna Lim - violin Tom Kraines - cello Nic Handahl…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Audra performing an evening of music for voice and saxophone, featuring Meredith Monk’s Hocket for Two Voices, two moody folk-song arrangements by Karin Rehnqvist, Cecilia McDowall’s dramatic White Fox Woman, Thomas Kessler’s Cage-inspired Is it?, Gelsey Bell’s spacious Avatrix, and Griffin Candey’s love songs, I Shall Be Coming Back To…
**Please note: The performance starts at 2:00pm. Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Doors will open at 1:15pm. RSVPing helps us to anticipate attendance but does not guarantee entry. If you RSVP but do not check in by 1:50pm, we may give your…
**Please note: The performance starts at 7:00pm. Seating and admission to the building for the performance will be on a first come first served basis. Doors will open at 6:15pm. RSVPing helps us to anticipate attendance but does not guarantee entry. If you RSVP but do not check in by 6:50pm, we may give your…
Bowerbird is pleased to co-present Gene Coleman's program Experiments in Neuroaesthetics: Evoking Voices from Biological Systems. In the music of Giacinto Scelsi, Luigi Nono and Pauline Oliveros, and in the films of Stan Brakhage, there was a desire to reveal the “inner voices”. Working with new biodata technologies and systems, we reach a new reality,…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a morning birdwalk at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum led by Tony Croasdale interspersed with two performances by Matt Engle and Juan Castrillón. Please take note of the weather and dress accordingly with appropriate footwear. Meet at the Environmental Education Pavilion, to the right of the visitor…
Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing their program Equinox. Serving as the centerpiece for this program is Philadelphia composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s first Cantata: To One in Paradise. The poem “To One is Paradise” is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe dating from his mature poetic period that features many of the poet’s…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the NakedEye Ensemble performing a concert of music by Ben Nobuto. PROGRAM Lucid (2020) for piano and electronics Tell Me Again (2022) for piano, electronics, and film trio (for ivy house) (2024) for flute, cello, piano & electronics Love Games (2023) for six players, electronics & video Three Studies (2022)…
ONLINE RSVP's are filled. Please note: Doors for those with online RSVPs will open at 7:15pm and all others may enter at 7:30pm. We are thrilled to welcome back Laraaji, a key figure in the evolution of ambient music whose distinctive sound has been captivating listeners for decades. Philadelphia-born and New Jersey-raised, Laraaji has pursued…