Posts Tagged ‘String Quartet’

Avant Music Festival : Music of John Cage

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.

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In Search of a New Tuning

Monday, September 8th, 2008

A few years ago I started work on my first proper string quartet – an expansion and fuller exploration of one of the sections of Alicia. The piece was written originally in equal temperament, as the thought of doing a full length work in Just Intonation had simply not crossed my mind.

I “finished” this new version of the piece back in 2005, and really hadn’t looked at it again until earlier this year when we decided to go ahead and produce it in our next season with a video component by Patrick Davison. In revisiting this piece, which I am really excited to have premiered, I realized that I have no desire to continue to use equal temperament, and that now was the time to find a new tuning. (more…)