[silence] BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD, AN EVENING OF JOHN CAGE - June 11th, 2008

[neil wiernik]

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EMF and MUSICWORKS
Present
BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD

AN EVENING OF JOHN CAGE Featuring JOEL CHADABE
A Rare Opportunity to Hear Some of the Wildest Compositions of the  
20th Century Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART &  
DESIGN UNIVERSITY

On Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 as of 7PM, Musicworks Magazine and the  
Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) present BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD at the  
OCAD Auditorium downtown Toronto. The evening features original Cage  
collaborators Joel Chadabe, (sound), David Eisenman (visuals) and  
Donald Gillies. Musicians include Eve Egoyan, Marc Couroux, Casey  
Sokol, Tania Gill, Gregory Oh, Gayle Young, George Boski, William  
Blakeney, Robert Wheeler (Pere Ubu), Bob Doidge, Amy King and more.  
The complete presentation will last for 4 hours, but visitors are  
invited to come and go at will, something Cage, no doubt, would have  
approved of.

This concert is produced with the assistance of the Electronic Music  
Foundation in New York to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of  
Musicworks Magazine, and serves as a fundraiser for Musicworks,  
Canadas only experimental music and sound art publication.

World-renowned composer John Cage (1912-1992) composed BirdCage in  
1971, working with Joel Chadabe, the founder and president of the  
Electronic Music Foundation. Cage's composition consisted of 12 half- 
hour tapes with three tracts of recorded sounds: the chirping of  
birds in aviaries, the electronically treated sounds of Cage reading  
words from Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," and fragments of found  
sounds and ambient street noise. In "performing" the piece, Cage  
operated a matrix mixer to select from the various tapes at random.  
Joel Chadabe has prepared a ''spatialized, new realization" of the  
work for a digital age in which a computer software program  
continually, and randomly, selects from the recorded materials.


HPSCHD, by John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, is arguably the wildest  
composition of the 20th century. Big, brash, exuberant, raucous, a  
performance involves hours of ongoing high-level intensity. The sound  
is a mixture of seven amplified harpsichords playing computer- 
generated variations of Mozart and other composers along with 51  
computer-generated tapes playing what could be off-tuned trumpets  
sounding some musical charge. The thousands of swirling images,  
overlaid and mixed, of abstract shapes and colors and of space  
imagery from slides and films borrowed from NASA, create a chaotic  
riot of shifting form and color. Visitors can peruse a small gallery  
of the historic Fluxus posters and artwork created for the debut  
performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May,  
1969.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see one of the most  
important compositions of the 20th Century performed in its entirety.  
The harpsichords used in the performance are copies of original  
instruments; they are provided by Claviers Baroques Upper Canada  
Harpsichords.

BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
OCAD Auditorium/ ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN UNIVERSITY
100 McCaul Street
7:00 8:00 p.m. BirdCage;
8:00 - 11:00 p.m. HPSCHD
Admission is $20 at the door.

http://www.musicworks.ca

For more information about the event, contact:
Gayle Young, Musicworks magazine
E-mail: sound@musicworks.ca
Phone: 416 977-3546.

For interviews, contact Joel Chadabe at joel@emf.org
or David Eisenman at eisenman@mathware.com



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