Event overview
"a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections in an audio system. "
A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records & Sound Practice Research, Goldsmiths presents:
'Rainforest IV' by David Tudor
"a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds of
suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed reflections
in an audio system. "
Performance & Installation
3rd & 4th of July 2009 - from 2pm to 23pm
£10 (online booking http://www.wegottickets.com)
£12 (on the door)
at AREA10 PROJECT SPACE
Eagle Wharf
Peckham Hill Street
London - SE15 5JT
(White building behind the Library)
Buses: 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343
Train: Peckham Rye Station
"In 1973 I made 'Rainforest IV' where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it's hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other point in the space. It's (can be) a large group piece actually, any number of people can participate in it. It's important that each person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the piece. I've found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It's been done by as large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done". David Tudor
Performed by
RYAN JORDAN
JULIEN OTTAVI
KASPER T TOEPLITZ
JEAN-BAPTISTE THIEBAUT
JOHN BOWERS
DOMINIQUE LEROY
PHILIP JULIAN
CHRIS WEAVER
JENNY PICKETT
RYO IKESHIRO
DAWN SCARFE
ANDY WHEDDON
DUNCAN RAVENHALL
ANTONIS ANTONIOU
and more
Thanks to ResonanceFM for their support!
more information from:
http://www.a10lab.info/rainforest
Who is David Tudor?
David Tudor was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1926. He studied with H. William Hawke (organ, theory), Irma Wolpe Rademacher (piano) and Stephan Wolpe (composition and analysis).His first professional activity was as an organist, and he subsequently became known as one of the leading avant-garde pianists of our time. Tudor gave highly acclaimed first or early performances of works by contemporary composers Earle Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, Stephan Wolpe, and La Monte Young, among others.
Tudor began working with John Cage in the early fifties, as a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and with Cage's 'Project of Music' for Electronic Tape. Tudor gradually ended his active career as a pianist, turning exclusively to the composition of live electronic music.
As a composer, Tudor chose specific electronic components and their interconnections to define both composition and performance drawing upon resources that were both flexible and complex. Tudor was one of four Core Artists who collaborated on the design of the Pepsi Pavilion for Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, a project of Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc. Many of Tudor's compositions have involved collaborative visual forces: light systems, laser projections, dance, theatre, television, film. Tudor's last project, Toneburst: Maps and Fragments, was a collaboration with visual artist Sophia Ogielska. Tudor's several collaborations with visual artist Jacqueline Monnier included the development of a kite environment installed at the Whitney Museum (Philip Morris, NYC) in 1986, at the exhibition "Klangraume" in Dusseldorf in 1988, and at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York City in 1990. Other collaborators have included Lowell Cross, Molly Davies, Viola Farber, Anthony Martin, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Tudor had been affiliated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) since its inception in the summer of 1953. In 1992, after Cage's death, Tudor took over as Music Director of MCDC. Merce Cunningham has commissioned numerous works from Tudor, including Rainforest I (1968); Toneburst (1974); Weatherings (1978); Phonemes (1981); Sextet for Seven (1982); Fragments (1984); Webwork (1987), Five Stone Wind (1988), Virtual Focus (1990); Neural Network Plus (1992); and most recently Soundings: Ocean Diary (1994) for what was John Cage's last conception, Ocean.
Musicians & Artists websites:
http://jennypickett.co.uk
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj/
http://www.noiser.org
http://www.apo33.org
http://jbthiebaut.free.fr/
http://www.myspace.com/tonesucker
http://www.leftright.org/
http://www.cmx.org.uk/
http://www.dawnscarfe.co.uk/
http://resonancefm.com/
http://www.ry-om.net/index.htm
http://www.myspace.com/aseaofsound
http://www.myspace.com/antonioua
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Jul 2009 | 2:00pm - 11:00pm | |
| 4 Jul 2009 | 2:00pm - 11:00pm |
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