Monday, January 16th, 2012
Tickets to all of the events during the 2012 Avant Music Festival – February 10-18, 2012 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) – are now on sale.
http://avantmedia.org/tickets/
Presale tickets are $12 general, $8 for students, with no fees for buying online. Tickets at the door will be $15/$10 so buy early and save!
The Third Annual Avant Music Festival celebrates John Cage’s 100th birthday, and the 100th anniversary of Pierrot Lunaire in addition to new evenings of work by Eve Beglarian, Randy Gibson, and Jenny Olivia Johnson. Click through to read the full lineup of events »
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
We’ve just uploaded a little Preview video of the 2012 Avant Music Festival featuring Eve Beglarian, John Cage, Randy Gibson, and Jenny Olivia Johnson.
This video is part of the Kickstarter campaign that culminates in a live preview performance on December 19th.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
February 12th, 2011, starting at 8PM at The Wild Project, NYC (195 East 3rd Street @ Avenue B)
The Cage program this year is perhaps the one I’m most proud of being able to put together. Megan and I have assembled what I hope will be a really fun night.
The concert will open with the lovely Vicky Chow performing Cage’s beautiful early piano pieces Dream and In A Landscape, and will close with William Lang and myself performing one of the last pieces Cage ever wrote, and a personal favorite, 1991′s stunningly minimal and sparse Two5.
In between will be a truly monumental musicircus performance of Cage’s exhaustive vocal/theatrical compendium; 1970′s Song Books as interpreted by the avant-garde vocal ensemble Ekmeles with Vicky Chow playing Music for Piano 4-19 and me reading from Indeterminacy.
The entire performance is being chance determined. The total duration of the performance was determined using the i-ching. Festival lighting designer Kryssy Wright is creating six “looks” for the lighting that will be chance-determined by audience members at the opening of the concert. I have used the i-ching to determine how many and which of the 90 stories from Indeterminacy will be read, and the positioning on stage of every single Solo for Voice has been chance-determined, and is not being revealed to the performers as a whole, only individually. Each performer will know where they need to go, but not what may, or may not, be going on around them. The members of Ekmeles have not discussed with each other which solos they are performing, and the ephemeral nature of these sorts of performances is extremely exciting.
When I put together a night of Cage’s music, something that was so inspirational to me early on, I try to read Cage’s instructions as carefully as possible, and follow them to their letter as closely as possible. Through the use of chance operations, and particularly this year, getting the audience involved in the determinations, we are able to really capture the anarchic, playful, but incredibly specific attitude that so typified Cage’s philosophy.
I hope to see you there – Randy
Visit our Facebook Event for this evening here
Special Thanks to John Cage.Info for piece and date information
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
We are proud to announce the full schedule for the second annual Avant Music Festival, five nights of music from the evolving avant-garde, February 11th-19th at Wild Project in New York City. Curated by minimal composer and Avant Media artistic director, Randy Gibson and experimental vocalist Megan Schubert, the festival presents the works of Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Randy Gibson, Reiko Füting, and Nils Vigeland as interpreted by some of the most talented young musicians in New York. All performances will start at 8PM at Wild Project – 195 East 3rd Street.
The full list of performances is as follows:
- Friday 2/11/2011 – The World Premiere of a new version of Randy Gibson’s Apparitions of The Four Pillars
- Saturday 2/12/2011 – An evening of works by John Cage featuring Vicky Chow, Ekmeles, and William Lang
- Thursday 2/17/2011 – Duets by Reiko Füting and Nils Vigeland
- Friday 2/18/2011 – The New York Premiere of Georges Aperghis’ opera Sextuor: L’origine des Espèces
- Saturday 2/19/2011 – Randy Gibson’s Apparitions of The Four Pillars
Advance tickets to individual concerts for $12, $8 for students, and multi-night festival passes are available starting today. There are no fees to buy online, and tickets at the door will be $15/$10, purchase advance tickets and save.
The second annual Avant Music Festival focuses on evolution as its guiding theme, from the evolution of a single work (the world premiere of a new version of Gibson’s Apparitions of The Four Pillars), evolution through an artist’s career on the John Cage night, to the literal exploration found in the New York premiere of Georges Aperghis’ opera Sextuor: L’origine des Espèces, based on Darwin’s “Origin of Species.” A roundpanel discussion moderated by Schubert between Gibson, Reiko Füting, and Nils Vigeland will take place at 5:30 PM on the evening of the 12th, in advance of the Cage performances. The discussion, free to the public, will discuss the concepts of artistic and personal evolution through composition. On the theme of this year’s festival, Randy Gibson says, “Standing on line for a packed concert downtown, Megan and I were talking about the festival, and where we wanted it to go. The idea of Evolution came to mind as it relates to all of the work we’re programming. It’s something I’m extremely interested in within my own work, and the theme of personal evolution is really strong throughout all the works and programs we’re presenting.” Click here for full details on this year’s lineup
Tags: AMF2011, Avant Garde, Avant Music Festival, Georges Aperghis, John Cage, Megan Schubert, Music, New York City, Nils Vigeland, Randy Gibson, Reiko Füting
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
We are pleased to announce the full lineup of works by John Cage being performed on February 20th during the Avant Music Festival. It should be a truly amazing evening of performances.
One4 for Solo Drummer will be performed by percussionist and experimental composer Jude Traxler to open the concert.
The beautiful String Quartet in Four Parts, performed by MIVOS quartet, shows Cage’s stunning sense of melody and structure that were so vital to his early work.
In a slight break with tradition, Randy Gibson has developed a version of One9 for specially tuned Toy Organ that mimics the sound of the original Shō – he will be joined by Jude Traxler on conch shells to perform Two3
Closing the concert will be a monumental performance of Songbooks with solos from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra performed by members of loadbang with Megan Schubert and presented with videos of Solo for Voice 19 by Randy Gibson and Ana Baer-Carrillo originally created for John Cage at 95 as well as i-Ching based video lighting created by Oscar Henriquez.
We hope you’ll be able to join us for this and all the wonderful events taking place at Wild Project as part of the Avant Music Festival
Avant Music Festival : Music of John Cage takes place at 8PM on Saturday February 20th at Wild Project, 195 East 3rd Street.
Tickets are on sale now
Tags: #AMF2010, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Avant Music Festival, Cage, John Cage, Jude Traxler, loadbang, Megan Schubert, MIVOS quartet, Music, Randy Gibson, Songbooks, String Quartet
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Announcing the Avant Music Festival: five nights of live performances – February 19th-27th at Wild Project in New York City.
Tickets will go on sale on Monday, February 1st.
The Avant Music Festival will feature some of the most talented young interpreters in New York, highlighting the influence of the performer on experimental music from the 20th century and today.
The festival is Avant Media’s first festival of music exploring the nature of collaboration. The performer is a critical and powerful influence on both the composition and realization of some of the most influential music of the last 70 years. The performers appearing are dedicated to the vibrant history and the exciting future of modern classical music. Curated by Avant Media artistic director, Randy Gibson, and experimental vocalist Megan Schubert, the festival features works by Cage, Gibson, Stockhausen, and many more that reflect the intense and multi-faceted relationship between composer and performer.
Click hear to read the full press release
All performances for the Avant Music Festival will take place at Wild Project 195 East 3rd Street – For more information please click here to contact Avant Media or call 212-372-3326
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
I recently went to two very very different entirely acoustic performances. It’s amazing to me how rare this is these days. Read On »
Tags: 2009, Art, Friday, John Cage, Mashkoor Ali Khan, Megan Schubert, Michael Harrison, Music, Performances, Raga, Rain, Rubin, Stockhausen
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I always love Bloomsday, and tend to forget that it’s coming. But each year that it does come around and I remember how profoundly and deeply I love this book.
It is truly the ultimate novel, something for everyone – brilliantly complex, engaging and gorgeous. Joyce had a profound influence on my work, mostly through the early (in my life) lens of John Cage’s utter devotion to Finnegan’s Wake.
I still haven’t made it all the way through Finnegan’s Wake, but I am continually enthralled by Ulysses. Listen to a section of Ulysses after the Jump »
Tags: 2009, Bloomsday, Food, John Cage, Joyce, Leopold Bloom, Literature, Offal, Recording, Stephen Colbert, Ulysses
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
photo: Frank Sygusch
Great experience, made a piece with the Dance Company from Giessen and made a video to the monotone of ASLSP (John Cage).
Sofia was my little assistant and we had a ball!
Links from Giessen-server.de (in German)
Rehearsal writeup and photos
Performance writeup and photos
Tags: 2009, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Dance, Germany, John Cage, Links, News, photos, Video
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The Third Mind is on view starting today at The Guggenheim
I attended the opening of this show last night, and it is truly spectacular, and there is a strong musical presence as well, from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House to scores from the FLUXUS era, to a huge presence of works surrounding John Cage. The inimitable Margaret Leng Tan has done the audio tour and I’m very excited to go back and listen.
There are also a ton of performances and lectures set for the 3 months or so it is open.
Third Mind Performances and Lectures
There is so much amazing art on view during this exhibit that we were literally running at the end of the night to see a full room installation on the top floor that is not to be missed.
Tags: 2009, Art, Asia, Dream House, Fluxus, Friday, Guggenheim, Installation, John Cage, La Monte Young, Links, Margaret Leng Tan, Marian Zazeela, Music, Performances, Room, Running
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