Below are some upcoming & recent performances featuring scores on this site. Anyone can list a performance event by simply clicking the 'Have you performed this?' link in the 'Recent Performances' section on a score's page...
Ezra Buchla and I will be performing Duet (for Tashi Wada) intermittently throughout the evening of Claire's opening reception.
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August 21 – Sept 18, 2010 Collection of personal items and Opening August 21, 7–10pm Performance and Closing Reception September 18, 7–10pm Claire Cronin Disquiet Objects
Disquiet Objects brings Claire Cronin’s psychic songwriting to the visitors of Monte Vista by inviting the public to share their personal items as source material for her work. Based on a belief that the objects we live with are alive with an invisible charge, Cronin began to experiment with Psychometry – the intuitive art of reading the energy held in things.
For each week of her residency at Monte Vista, the artist will select one of the borrowed objects and channel a song based on the impressions she gathers. At the end of the residency, on September 18th, there will be a performance of the four finished songs and a closing reception, when all items will be returned to their owners.
Parallels between the creative process and psychic channeling have been explored by many artists. Cronin’s exploration of Psychometry began while staying at a haunted artist residency, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, in North Carolina, where she wrote songs for the spirits residing in the space. Cronin’s practice emphasizes channeling – rather than authoring – as a deliberate strategy to soften her mark as an individual and draw from a collective history.
Along with her songwriting residency at Monte Vista, Cronin will exhibit a series of portraits of deceased strangers in the gallery, painted from photographs found on internet memorial sites. Each portrait is displayed with its “double” cut from black thrift store dresses, referencing the Victorian practice of covering mirrors with black cloth during times of mourning, so that the spirits of the departed won’t get trapped in the glass. One mirror will be displayed alongside the paintings in this way, as part of an “energy installation” to contain energy that collects in the gallery. Four quartz crystals will also be placed in the corners of the gallery, forming a “crystal matrix” that will protect and ritualize the space.
Claire Cronin is an artist and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between psychic and creative processes. She recently composed a series of songs about the vibrations in the Hammer Museum as part of the Machine Project residency, and taught a class on “Art as a Magickal Practice” at Telic’s Public School. Cronin practices her psychic skills in Asher Hartman’s experimental theatre group, Gawdafful, and in other small performances across Los Angeles. Cronin was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, where she continues to live. In her past life, she was an ascetic in a strict order of Catholic nuns.
Monte Vista
5442 Monte Vista St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
www.montevistaprojects.com
open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm
A program of experimental performance curated by G. Douglas Barrett.
Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 7PM.
Revolving loosely around the meeting of post-conceptual and discursive practices with those developed by the experimental music tradition, A Few Silence, A Place or Two, Some Applause is an evening-length program of performance works which considers the concert situation as technologically mediated site for embodied, social and institutionalized listening. The program contains works by G. Douglas Barrett, John Cage, Bill Dietz and Adam Overton, performed by G. Douglas Barrett, Kara Feely, Francesco Gagliardi, David Kant, Aaron Meicht, Travis Just and Quentin Tolimieri.
Performance of A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010). June 29, 2010, Milan.
Program: Some Applause for Doug (2010), Dietz
A Few Silence (Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 7PM) (2007), Barrett
Place Feed-forward (Spiegelgasse 14, Zürich, Switzerland) (2010), Barrett
A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010), Barrett
4’33” (1952), Cage / Touch ensemble petting zoo (no. 1) (2006), Overton
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Presented as part of the Incubator Arts Project Music Program,
Organized by Travis Just
G. DOUGLAS BARRETT is an artist/composer working often with performance and various forms of mediation (text, scores, notation, transcription, recording technology, video). His work has been presented in festivals, galleries, concert halls, academic conferences and street performance events throughout North America and Europe. Recent collaborators and performers of his work include Francesco Gagliardi, Adam Overton, Mark So, Bill Dietz, Object Collection, The S.E.M. Ensemble, Pauline Kim and Philip Thomas. He has appeared at festivals such as the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Ostrava Days (Czech Republic) and Visiones Sonoras (Mexico City), and venues such as the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (New York), the Wulf (Los Angeles), Theater Perdu (Amsterdam), the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, UK) and Neutral Ground (Canada). Barrett’s writings have appeared in literary journal Mosaic (U of Manitoba), and new music magazine HIS Voice (Prague), among other publications.
Fri, 25 June 2010
posted by MI, 08/21/10Danaë(Martin Iddon) members of the Momenta Quartet, 67 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Programme: INSIDE/OUTSIDE
G.Douglas Barrett - A Few Silence
Alvin Lucier - Heavier than air
Stephen Chase - Stranger than friction/The Ear/Bank Street Songs/Ineluctable/Das Ohr pt. 2/No title; this isn’t it either (slight return)/Forest scene with canopies/Cave Music (or some gratuitous note spinning)
Manfred Werder – 2010(1)
John Lely - Symphony No. 4 ‘the great outdoors’
Michael Parsons - Echo Piece
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posted by ao, 06/28/10for any stolen instrument(adam overton) mp3 performed/premiered by Gerhard Schultz in Berlin (the windows were open, and if you listen closely you can hear Germany winning a World Cup game in the background)
Shortly after the Orchestra performed John Lely's symphony in e, the other half of the Orchestra then re-performed Lely's piece based our collective impression of what we had just witnessed.
recording to come...
4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound John Lely: Symphony in e James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3 Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers Adam Overton: general impression piece Adam Overton: get just a little bit closer piece(a surprise performance, occurring during general impression piece) evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ / Matt Barbier, trombone
half the orchestra secretly performed this piece while the other half of the orchestra performed general impression piece. (apparently Sepand Shabab "won" by a toe's length)
4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound John Lely: Symphony in e James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3 Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers Adam Overton: general impression piece Adam Overton: get just a little bit closer piece(a surprise performance, occurring during general impression piece) evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ / Matt Barbier, trombone
4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound John Lely: Symphony in e James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3 Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers Adam Overton: general impression piece Adam Overton: get just a little bit closer piece(a surprise performance, occurring during general impression piece) evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ / Matt Barbier, trombone
Sun, 30 May 2010
posted by john, 05/31/10udp dreams(john) Performed at Barfspace by myself
posted by kieran, 05/28/1028 5 10(Kieran Daly) 04:47 PM EST [until 1 June]
12 5th St
Bangor, ME
Fri, 21 May 2010
posted by ala1RECS & arsomnis, 05/29/10valley(Casey Thomas Anderson) ala1RECS & arsomnis played Valley last friday 21st of May, in a private concert that included John Cage's Radio Music and Variations III & IV, and Michael Pisaro's 7 for two musicians with radios (from The collection).
In Valley, eight radios were operated by four musicians, who added some friction sounds (with stones, a deck brush and plastic bags) and a simultaneous execution of Pisaro's 8 for two musicians.
posted by SChase, 05/20/10ukelelevents(Stephen Chase) Ukelelevent #3 for Alison Knowles and Banjolely, Joe Kudirka, Ross Parfitt, Stephen Chase, 21-iv-2010, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
posted by ao, 05/04/10hot topics for hot pockets(adam overton) performed Sunday 2 May 2010, by Mark So and Adam Overton, along with several of Mark's scores, at the studio of V. Shannon Clyne, for the unveiling of Niko Solorio's drawing series and installation "WE WERE HEROS...WE WERE FORCED INTO CLOUDS".
this recording is a realization of For Mari Garrett.
on 4 April 2010, adam overton performed Mari's one for 41 at the wulf. in los angeles. the recording of that performance is presented here in reverse.
* the strings heard at the end are from a performance of Mari Garrett's "coo coo clock" that was performed throughout the evening by eric KM clark and orin hildestad
