[silence] Theater Piece No. 2

[Philip Schuessler]

I would like to inform 'silencers' of my presentation of a lecture
performance entitled 'Theater Piece No. 2: The Unimpededness of John
Cage's Theater Piece No. 1 and the Interpenetration of Black Mountain
College' at the National Conference for Society for Electro-Acoustic
Music in the United States (SEAMUS).  A little information about the
piece is provided below.

Thank you,
Philip Schuessler

When: 1:00pm Paper Session #2 Thursday, March 8, 2007
Where: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 102 Music Hall

More info. at: http://www.music.iastate.edu/seamus/   

Theater Piece No. 2 was initially conceived as a sort of compendium to
a lecture on the music of John Cage, specifically his work done in the
late 1940’s and early 1950’s at Black Mountain College.  Cage’s
creative output at that time culminated in a collaborative, multimedia
performance in the summer of 1952 entitled Theater Piece No. 1 (a.k.a.
Black Mountain Piece).  The performance involved a number of
performance elements such as live music, pre-recorded music, dance,
film, slides, painting displays, and lectures.  Theater Piece No. 2 is
an attempt at emulating (without necessarily recreating) the same type
of aesthetic environment in the folds of a lecture on this same topic. 
The end result is that there are a number of discreet events occurring
simultaneously without necessarily being causally related to one
another.  The observer is awash in multiple sensory stimulants and has
the freedom of selecting events, if any, on which to focus and of
interpreting the gestalt as it pertains to everyday life experiences.




 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate 
in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367