Other Cinema presents
Cage Centennial:
John Smalley on Cage & Dada + Jon Roy on Harry Partch
- When
- Sat Apr 7, 2012
- Where
- Artists' for Television Access (ATA)
- Time
- 8:30pm
- Cost
- $7
- Tags
- Experimental Music, Music, Movies, Other Film
Description
On Saturday, April 7, ATA Gallery's flagship exhibition series Other Cinema presents musicologist John Smalley’s enlightening lecture-demo John Cage and the Spirit of Dada, examining Cage in relation to collage and experimental techniques pioneered by the Dadaists and Constructivists. Embedding copious Cage musical clips and documentary excerpts, John also explores the complex exchanges with other avant-gardists such as Duchamp, Satie, Ono, La Monte Young, and the Fluxus circle.ALSO: Jon Roy flies in from Atlanta to introduce his in-progress Bitter Music, on another beloved “hobohemian,” Harry Partch. Doc sequences and a historic newsreel from Mills College flesh out Roy’s tribute.
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John Smalley, a native of San Francisco, holds advanced degrees in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, where he taught for six years. A researcher of music’s intersections with literature, art, film, and philosophy, he has lectured and performed as a vocal soloist throughout the Bay Area and was awarded a prestigious Shenson Performing Arts Fellowship in 2009.
Further insight by John Smalley on John Cage in Other Cinema's Issue 22 of OtherZine:
http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/
Jon Roy is filmmaker, visual artist, and a composer. He maintains the blog http://newdissonance.com with other composers.
An article by Jon Roy on Harry Partch in Other Cinema's Issue 21 of OtherZine:
http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/
More Info
- Link
- http://www.othercinema.com/
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- (415) 648-0654
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