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SUMMARY:Screening of ASSEMBLAGE
DESCRIPTION:Assemblage is a recently rediscovered lost film featuring Merce Cunningham and his early dance company: Carolyn Brown\, Sandra Neels\, Valda Setterfield\, Meg Harper\, Susana Hayman-Chaffey\, Jeff Slayton\, Chase Robinson\, and Mel Wong. A collaboration with director and former dancer Richard Moore\, Assemblage features Cunningham dancing with his company in a public happening in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square in November 1968. Cunningham’s riveting performance–conceived from the beginning as a dance staged for the camera–is amplified by Moore’s astonishing special effects and a soundtrack by John Cage\, David Tudor and Gordon Mumma. Rediscovered after Cunningham’s death\, Assemblage was transferred from 16mm and colorized by artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas\, himself a longtime collaborator of Cunningham’s. \nCunningham and his company spent three weeks rehearsing and filming on location in fall 1968\, creating what Moore described as “movement modules.” From these sequences\, Moore and film editor Bill Yahraus crafted a motion picture collage of overlapping movements and moments\, which occur sometimes in fragmented film windows\, sometimes within ingenious superimposed planes. To create the breathtaking hallucinatory collision of filmed dances\, Moore used extensive optical illusion and process photography; dancers were filmed as silhouettes and superimposed on different backgrounds. Assemblage serves as a testament to Cunningham’s groundbreaking investigations of dance and movement within the virtual spaces of film. \n  \nPresented with International House Philadelphia
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/screening-of-assemblage/
LOCATION:International House\, 3701 Chestnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104
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SUMMARY:Kevin Drumm + Jason Lescalleet
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT \nBowerbird\, Philly Sound Forum\, and International House Philadelphia are proud to present Kevin Drumm (in his first ever Philadelphia appearance) and Jason Lescalleet\, in celebratation of the recent release of their epic double CD ‘The Abyss’ on Erstwhile Records. \nIn addition to the duo of Drumm and Lescalleet\, the evening will also feature Trophy Tape\, a project curated and directed by Lescalleet; featuring videos by Aaron Dilloway\, Ellen Frances\, Annie Feldmeier Adams\, Justin Meyers\, Antony Milton\, C. Spencer Yeh\, Olivia Block\, Adel Souto\, Neil Young Cloaca\, Todd Deal\, Jubal Brown\, Heidi Alasuvanto\, and Robert Beatty. 13 pieces corresponding with songs from the first disc of his crucial “Songs About Nothing” 2CD on Erstwhile. Ranging from the abstract to the startlingly direct. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nAvant-garde tabletop guitarist Kevin Drumm was born and raised in 1970 in South Holland\, IL\, playing in a handful of rock bands before relocating to Chicago in 1991 to work at the city’s Board of Trade. He soon began his experiments with prepared guitar\, applying objects including magnets\, binder clips\, chains\, a violin bow and even toenail clippers to distort the instrument’s sound; in time Drumm befriended a number of members of Chicago’s growing improv community\, including Jim O’Rourke (with whom he served in Brise-Glace\, additionally contributing to Gastr del Sol’s Upgrade and Afterlife album and Ken Vandermark. In late 1997 Drumm made his solo debut with a self-titled (Perdition Plastics) and has released superb duo records with Taku Sugimoto (Sonoris)\, Axel Dorner\, Martin Tetreault (both Erstwhile) and Ralf Wehowsky (Selektion). His chameleon-like presence has been documented on a number of projects\, each revealing new facets of his wide-ranging and unique talents on both guitar and electronics. Drumm seamlessly melds the worlds of acoustic and electronic sound\, occasionally teetering on the edge of silence\, yet always remaining impeccably musical. Kevin Drumm has recorded and performed with Phill Niblock\, Tony Conrad\, Jim O’Rourke\, MIMEO\, Mats Gustafsson\, John Butcher\, Thomas Ankersmit\, Taku Sugimoto and many others. \n  \nJason Lescalleet (b. 1968 in Worcester MA) explores a sound world that occupies a space between noise\, contemporary composition\, and minimal electronics. Using decidedly primitive tactics and equipment his work focuses on microscopic audio detail set awash in exaggerated and exploited site-specific acoustics. In the past two decades\, Lescalleet has gradually and painstakingly compiled a compelling discography on notable labels such as Erstwhile\, RRR\, Intransitive Recordings\, Kye\, Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon\, Hanson Records\, Chondritic Sound\, and most recently via his own Glistening Examples imprint. He has collaborated with Graham Lambkin\, Phill Niblock\, Joe Colley\, John Hudak\, Rafael Toral\, Thomas Ankersmit\, Ron Lessard (as Due Process)\, and CM Von Hausswolff\, among others\, and during this time he’s built a solid reputation for delivering a visceral live experience in concert. He currently lives in Maine\, where he works and operates the Glistening Examples publishing label and the Glistening Labs studio for audio recording and mastering services.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/kevin-drumm-jason-lescalleet/
LOCATION:International House\, 3701 Chestnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104
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SUMMARY:Meetings: Pauline Oliveros\, Christian Wolff\, Keith Rowe\, and Michael Pisaro
DESCRIPTION: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 is perhaps the most open of Cages Number Pieces. Offering no other directives than a series of time brackets\, Four6 invites its players to individually choose and number 12 sounds that they are willing to make\, and to begin and end them sometime during a set of fixed durations. As each performer has no knowledge of the others sounds beforehand\, the result is unexpected and magical. \nIn addition to this quartet\, Rowe and Wolff will perform a rare duo and Michael Pisaro will be joined by Philadelphian’s Jesse Kudler\, Ian Fraser\, and Reed Rosenberg to perform various “miniatures” by Cage.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/meetings-pauline-oliveros-christian-wolff-keith-rowe-and-michael-pisaro/
LOCATION:International House\, 3701 Chestnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104
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SUMMARY:AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS
DESCRIPTION:ENSEMBLE NOAMNESIA:\nGene Coleman\, bass clarinet\nJason Calloway\, cello\nMarina Peterson\, cello\nEvan Lipson\, bass\nAlban Bailly\, guitar / accordion\nDustin Hurt\, trumpet / accordion \nAelita: Queen of Mars is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker\nYakov Protazanov made at Mezhrabpom-Rus Film Studio and released in\n1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. For its\nshowing at the I-House on February 9th\, the film will be presented\nwith live music created by Philadelphia composer Gene Coleman and\nperformed by Ensemble Noamnesia. The ensemble will feature Anthony Jay Ptak\nplaying the Thermin\, an electronic instrument invented in the early 20th century\,\nwhich many people are familiar with from its use in science fiction movie\nsoundtracks of the 1950s. \nThough one focus of the story is on the daily lives of a group of\npeople during the post-World War I Soviet Union\, the enduring\nimportance of the film comes from its early science fiction elements.\nIt primarily tells of a young man\, Loss\, traveling to Mars in a rocket\nship\, where he leads a popular uprising against the king\, with the\nsupport of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him (after\nwatching him through a telescope). Probably the first full-length\nmovie about space travel\, the most notable part of the film remains\nthe constructivist Martian sets and costumes designed by Aleksandra\nEkster. Their influence can be seen in a number of later films\,\nincluding the Flash Gordon serials and probably Fritz Lang’s\nMetropolis. While very popular at first\, the film later fell out of\nfavor with the Soviet government and was thus very difficult to see\nuntil after the Cold War period.\ \nGene Coleman is a composer\, musician and artistic director. He has\ncreated over 50 works for various instrumentation\, often-using complex\nnotations and improvisation in the same score. Innovative use of sound\nmakes Coleman\, both as a composer and as a performer\, an artist who\nseeks a synthesis between what is called noise and what is called\nmusic. Since 2001 his work has focused on globalization and music’s\nrelationship with architecture and video. He studied painting\, music\nand film making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, where\nhis principle teachers included legendary experimental film artists\nStan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr. \nEnsemble Noamnesia is a group of musicians playing new and\nexperimental music. Founded by composer Gene Coleman in Chicago in\n1987\, the group now consists of about 10 musicians who work on a\nproject-by-project basis in Philadelphia\, Chicago and New York. Many\nof the players come from a classical music background\, but are equally\nversed in new types of interpretation and sound production\, as well as\nimprovisation. Over the years a stellar cast of international guest\nartists have worked with them\, including Jim O’Rourke\, Helmut\nLachenmann\, Otomo Yoshihide\, Luc Ferrari\, George Crumb and many\nothers. The group is devoted to playing music that invites new ways of listening. \nAnthony Jay Ptak is an artist and a composer born in Brooklyn\, New York in 1970. He grew up near the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the RCA Radio Central testing facility. An inviolable autodidacticist\, he has studied with Tony Conrad\, Paul Sharits\, Lydia Kavina\, and Herbert Br¸n\, and had technical consultations with Robert Moog. He performed at the First International Theremin Festival. He has been a guest theremin artist under directorScott Wyatt at the historic Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000. He was appointed visiting researcher in 2001\, and participated in the C4A Computing for the Arts initiative for Fine and Applied Arts at UIUC. He taught sound art and musique concrËte for new media artists at the School of Art and Design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has presented at Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)\, School of the Art Institute\, Chicago Cultural Center\, St. Louis Art Museum\, Krannert Art Museum\, FFMUP Princeton University\, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, New Jersey\, Roulette Intermedium\, The Kitchen\, and Issue Project Room in New York. He was first introduced to the theremin in 1987 by improviser Eric Ross . He began playing an etherwave theremin kit 0017 in 1995. A. J. Ptak is a founding member of the New York Theremin Society . He currently resides in New York City. More at: http://axoxnxs.com
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/aelita-queen-of-mars/
LOCATION:International House\, 3701 Chestnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104
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