For those academic fans of John White, here’s an article by Virginia Anderson in New Sound magazine, a journal from Belgrade:
http://www.newsound.org.rs/eng/content.php?clanak_casopis_broj=38
It’s free to access!
Month: February 2013
Cage Water Music in Birmingham and the World
This might be fun:
As part of the Cage hundredth birthday festivities, the Forum for Contemporary Music, Leipzig is curating the event, Cage 100,http://www.cage100.com/english/cage100/information/. One of the main strands of the event is the Water Music Project: http://www.cage100.com/english/projects/water-music-project/infoseite/. This event will occur between 8-15 March in Leipzig and in several sister cities, including Nanjing, Bologna, and Houston, Texas, where various performers will present their version of Water Music. All events will be streamed live on the Cage 100 site.
Water Music (1952) is one of Cage’s most theatrical pieces of the time, requiring not just prepared piano, but also various toys, whistles, and radio sound.
EMC founder Christopher Hobbs will spearhead the show from Birmingham, England, at the Ikon Gallery, where he will perform amidst an exhibition of the work of the Russian artist Timur Novikov. Details for this event are here: http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/757/water_music/ . It should be a fun show!
Le Witt Drawings and Epstein
We’ve been sent a useful link to Andy Lee’s rehearsal recordings of some of Paul Epstein’s Drawings (after Sol Le Witt) here: https://soundcloud.com/andyleedma . Some lovely postminimalism here, which for us sounds very American in its use of time. Anyway, enjoy!
William C. Wright music
This might be of interest to those of you in the Chicago area:
Hello to all!
I am writing to alert you to the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation’s “Break the Box” series and its opening event of 2013 — a lecture-performance celebrating the release of “The Music of William C. Wright,” a first-ever recording of the compositions of Frank Lloyd Wright’s composer-father. More information can be found here:
Hope to see you there! (And if you know of other potentially interested parties, please feel free to spread the word!)
Thanks much!
Sincerely,
–David Patterson
Producer, The Music of William C. Wright
Fizzle on Tuesday 5 February
Mike Hurley sends us the news from Birmingham. If you’re around the West Midlands, come say hey to the EMC folk (and find out what ‘objects’ Chris Hobbs decides to use)!
Hello!
Hope you can make it to Fizzle this Tuesday 5th February at The Lamp Tavern, B5 6AH.
8:30pm, £5/3
Virginia Anderson (clarinets)
Christopher Hobbs (piano, electronics, objects)
Bruce Coates (saxes)
For more info check out http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk/emc/Welcome.html and www.blambirmingham.co.uk
Thanks,
Mike