[RELATED EVENT: FULL CONCERT, D. VANDEWALLE, FRIDAY 3/24 at 8pm,
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, 43A W. 13th St. (bet. 5th and 6th aves.)
Current Free Practices in Music and Poetry
10:00am ROOM 220, Silver Bldg.
PERFORMANCE: Daan Vandewalle: excerpts from Curran "Inner Cities" and
Kaikhosru Sorabji "Opus clavicembalisticum"
10:20am: Elizabeth Hoffman
introductory remarks
10:35am: George Lewis
KEYNOTE address
11:05am Alvin Curran
MUSIC OUTSIDE THE CONCERT HALLS: the POETICS OF DIGITAL DISFIGUREMENT- (phonotatooing)
11:45 lunch provided
PERFORMANCE: Miya Masaoka
12:15 ROOM 207:
Barrett Watten
TRANSPOSING THE LIMITS OF OPEN FORM: LANGUAGE WRITING AND ANTHONY BRAXTON
Intertextual resonances between "open form" in language-centered poetry of the early 1980s and music by Braxton.
1pm: George Hartley
SWALLOW THE RED HOT HAMMER: NATHANIEL MACKEY'S SONG OF THE ANDOUMBOULOU.
Ecstatic deflections of lyric vocalism toward a dark multiplicity.
1:45pm ROOM 220: Mark Applebaum
"CULTURE SCULPTURE": BUILDING AN AUTONOMOUS CULTURE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVISATIONAL IDIOM
2:20 PERFORMANCE: Peter Evans, amplified trumpet; Amy Cimini, amplified
viola; Michael Gallope, synthesizer
2:45 ROOM 207: Dana Reason
THE MYTH OF 'ABSENCE'
Women improvisors and their treatment in the contemporary media.
3:25pm: Alexander Waterman
A LITURGY OF GESTURES: the graphic score and composition kit as
consolidation of the composer-performer model and the assembly of a
social model for collective reading.
The talk will focus on the work of Robert Ashley, the collaboration
between John Cage and David Tudor and Cornelius Cardew.
Brief performance.
3:50: Erik Ulman
SOME THOUGHTS ON IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION
A brief speculation on the nature of composition and improvisation, in
light of one another; of the nature of the creative act each implies;
and of their ethical and moral implications as framed by ideas of
Hannah Arendt, and Charles Olson.
Respondent: Jason Stanyek
4:20pm ROOM 220 Scott Currie
EnVisioning Improvisation: Issues of meaning, value, and power in
avant-garde jazz performance in NYC's Vision Festival
Culmination
4:45pm on: free music making
dana reason, mark applebaum, erik ulman, and others
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