The Music of Changes

Description

John Cage, perhaps the most influential composer of the 20th century, had a prolific and diverse compositional output covering a surprisingly wide range of styles and forms. sfSound's concerts have always featured a similar diversity of the experimental, electronic, theatrical, noise, and "off the page" musical interpretation/improvisation. A perfect match for festival based around Cage's music!

We launch our first summer Variation with a program encompassing Cage's entire career, from Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) (one of the earliest electro-acoustic works ever composed) to one of Cage's final works, the hauntingly beautiful microtonal ten (1991).

As to be expected, this concert covers a large spectrum of sounds, including voice, a chamber ensemble, piano preparations, test tones, conch shells, the sound of fire, a radio, 3 whistles, water containers, water pouring, shuffling a deck of cards, a wooden stick, found objects, paper crumpling, and silence. Plus a new Cage-inspired work by sfSound's Monica Scott!


PROGRAM
Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939)
2 variable-speed phono turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)
Experiences II (1948)
solo voice

Water Music (1952)
pianist, radio, 3 whistles, water containers, deck of cards, a wooden stick, four objects for preparing a piano and a stopwatch; score to be mounted as a large poster

Inlets (Improvisation II) (1977)
water-filled conch shells, a conch shell player using circular breathing and the sound of fire

But what about the noise of crumpling paper (1985)
found objects, water, and crumpling paper

ten (1991)
microtonal chamber ensemble

a new Cage-inspired work by sfSound's Monica Scott (2012)
chamber ensemble


PERFORMERS
Hadley McCarroll, voice and piano
Matt Ingalls, clarinet and test frequencies
John Ingle, saxophone
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Brendan Lai-Tong, trombone
Matthew Goodheart, piano
Kjell Nordeson, percussion
Erik Ulman, violin
Ben Kreith, violin
Tara Flandreau, viola
Monica Scott, cello

Tickets: cash at door only.

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