[silence] silence Digest, Vol 49, Issue 18

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>   1. S.E.M. Ensemble at Tonic: Sunday, July 2 (PK SEM)
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> From: PK SEM <pksem@semensemble.org>
> Subject: [silence] S.E.M. Ensemble at Tonic: Sunday, July 2
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> For Immediate Release
> June 26, 2006
> Contact: Donel Young
> Phone: 732/295-2406
>
> S.E.M. ENSEMBLE AT TONIC NYC
> WORKS BY CAGE, KOTIK, TARDOS, AND MAC LOW
>
>
> When: Sunday, July 2, 2006, 8pm
> Where: Tonic NYC; 107 Norfolk Street, New York City
> Who:
> S.E.M. Ensemble
> Petr Kotik, Director, Flutist
> Anne Tardos, Voice
> Allison Lyman, Mezzo-soprano
> Thomas Buckner, Baritone
> Anne Guthrie, French horn
> Chris Nappi, Percussion
>
> Program:
> Anne Tardos  Compositions #1- #4  (2001)
> John Cage  Ryoanji  (1983/85)
> Jackson Mac Low  Milarepa Gatha  (1976)
> Petr Kotik  There is Singularly Nothing  (1971/1995)
>
>
>
> Tickets: $10
> Info & Reservations: Call Tonic at 212-358-7501
>
> The S.E.M. Ensemble is dedicated to the performance and advancement of new
> music, with a focus on works that can best be described as post-Cagean.
> Since its inception in 1970, SEM has collaborated with composers who also
> often perform with the group. They have included, among others, Earle 
> Brown,
> John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, Alvin Singleton, Leroy Jenkins,
> Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp, Jackson Mac Low, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill
> Niblock, David Tudor, and Christian Wolff. Since 1972, The S.E.M. Ensemble
> has also performed extensively overseas, touring Europe once or twice 
> every
> season. In 1997, SEM performed at the Takemitsu Memorial Concert at Oji 
> Hall
> in Tokyo.
>
> Anne Tardos (b. 1944) is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of 
> the
> multilingual performance work Among Men, which was produced by the (WDR)
> West German Radio, in Cologne. She has lectured and performed her works
> widely in the United States and Europe. Examples of her visual texts were
> exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993; the Venice Biennale
> (Fluxus Pavillion), 1990; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, 1991; the New
> Museum, New York, 1992; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 1999.
> Examples of her recordings can be heard on the CDs A Chance Operation: The
> John Cage Tribute, collaboratively composed and performed with Jackson Mac
> Low (New York: Koch International, 1992), and Open Secrets (New York:
> Experimental Intermedia XI 110, 1993) and on the cassettes Songs and
> Simultaneities, with Mac Low (New York: Tarmac-1, 1981), and Gatherings 
> (New
> York: New Wilderness Audiographics 8137A, 1981). She met Mac Low in 1975;
> the two lived and worked together from 1978 until his death in 2004.
>
> John Cage (1912-1992) studied liberal arts at Pomona College.  His
> composition teachers included Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg.  Cage 
> has
> received numerous commissions and awards from musical organizations around
> the world and has been elected to the National Institute of Arts & 
> Letters.
> It would be impossible to calculate the catalytic effect and ramifications
> that Cage's work has had on 20th Century music and art, for it is clear 
> that
> the musical developments of our time cannot be understood without taking
> into account his music and ideas.  His invention of the prepared piano and
> his work with percussion instruments led him to imagine and explore many
> unique and fascinating ways of structuring the temporal dimension of 
> music.
> He is universally recognized as the generative and leading figure in the
> field of indeterminate composition by means of chance operations.
>
> ?SEM's history with Ryoanji began in February of 1987, when the S.E.M.
> Ensemble performed at the "24 Hours with John Cage" festival in Cologne --  
> a
> large scale, 24-hour broadcast celebration of Cage's 75th birthday with
> Cage's participation, including concerts, talks, theater, and other events
> including a macrobiotic feast. Ryoanji (1983-85) is a series of 
> instrumental
> solos, each performed with a percussion part. As it was written, each solo
> consisted of a live performance with three prerecorded layers of similar
> material, however S.E.M. Ensemble's realization (created in collaboration
> with Cage himself) does not use the recorded material. The material in
> Ryoanji is described by the composer as a "garden" of sounds, to be played
> gently as much as possible, like sounds in nature rather than sounds in
> music.?
>
>    - Petr Kotik on Ryoanji
>
> Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) was a poet, composer, painter, and multimedia
> performance artist. He studied at Chicago Musical College (1927-32),
> Northwestern Univ. Music School (1932-36), Univ. of Chicago (1939-43; 
> A.A.,
> 1941), Brooklyn College (B.A. cum laude, 1958). He also studied with 
> Shirley
> Rhodes Perle (1943-44), Grete Sultan (1953-55), Franz Kamin (1976-79), 
> Erich
> Katz (1948-49), John Cage (The New School for Social Research, 1957-60), 
> and
> Pandit Pran Nath (1975-76). Mac Low taught at N.Y.U.; Mannes College of
> Music; State Univ. of N.Y. at Albany, Binghamton, and Buffalo; Temple 
> Univ.;
> Schule f?r Dichtung in Wien; Naropa Inst.; Bard College; and Brown Univ. 
> He
> was also Regents' Lecturer at Univ. of Calif., San Diego in 1990. His
> writings and music have been published in 31 books, more than 90
> anthologies, and many periodicals.
>
> Mac Low wrote, directed and performed in several verbal-musical H?rspiele
> (radio works) for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne. Both as composer and
> writer he adopted nonintentional procedures, including chance operations,
> indeterminacy, and related methods in 1954, but he also wrote and composed
> extensively by intentional and "quasi-intentional" methods. His many
> "simultaneities" (among them his Vocabularies and Gathas) include musical,
> verbal, and/or visual elements. They and his other compositions are for 
> live
> voices, instruments (usually variable), and/or tape multitracking. Many 
> are
> realized by instruction- and score-guided performers' choices. He 
> performed
> extensively throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand, often with
> his wife, the painter, composer, poet, and performance artist Anne Tardos.
> The S.E.M. Ensemble has performed his works, often in collaboration with 
> Mac
> Low himself, since the early 1980s.
>
> Petr Kotik (born 1942, Prague) has lived in the United States since 1969. 
> He
> is a composer, conductor, and flutist and the founder and Director of 
> S.E.M.
> Ensemble and The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble. Kotik has received
> numerous composition grants and commissions including from the National
> Endowment for the Arts and the West German Radio in Cologne. In 1998 he 
> was
> given the prestigious composition award from the Foundation for 
> Contemporary
> Performance Arts. In 2004 Kotik was a resident composer in Berlin under 
> the
> sponsorship of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). His most
> recent major composition, the 40 minute Variations for 3 Orchestras
> (totaling 86 musicians) was premiered, to critical acclaim, at the Ostrava
> Days 2005 festival last August by the Janacek Philharmonic.
>
> There is Singularly Nothing (1971-73, additions made 1995 and 2000) is an
> open form composition with no distinct beginning or ending. It consists of
> 22 solos totaling several hours in length, which with rare exceptions, is
> not performed in its entirety.  Any number of solos can be performed in 
> any
> combination, thus creating various solos or ensemble configurations. 
> Though
> the concept is not new, Kotik's application is unique because of his use 
> of
> a steady pulse as the unifying element-no bar lines, downbeats, or 
> upbeats,
> only durations for each note measured in the number of pulses. The text is
> taken from Gertrude Stein's lecture ?Composition as Explanation? given at
> Oxford University in 1926. Kotik created a series of open-ended 
> compositions
> in the 1970s (the best-known is the 6-hour long Many Many Women also based
> on a text by Stein). They usually require a large-scale performance, 
> lasting
> one to several hours in duration.
>
>
> For more information
> About S.E.M. Ensemble: www.semEnsemble.org
> About Tonic: www.tonicnyc.com
>
>
> ###
>
> S.E.M. Ensemble is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, 
> the
> New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
> Trust, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and
> individual contributions from Yoko Ono, Noni Pratt, Stephanie Bernheim,
> Alvin Friedman-Kien, Molly Davies, Christian Wolff, Ulla Dydo, Rosumund
> Bernier & John Russell, Rackstraw Downes, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levinson,
> Peter Layton, Susan Sollins-Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kuhns, and John 
> and
> Linda Wadsworth. Special thanks to the Brooklyn Borough President, Marty
> Markowitz, for his support.
>
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