<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p><span><b> EMF and MUSICWORKS</b><br>
Present<br>
<b> BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD</b></span></p>
<p><span><b> AN EVENING OF JOHN CAGE Featuring JOEL CHADABE </b><br>
A Rare Opportunity to Hear Some of the Wildest Compositions of the 20th Century <b>Wednesday, June 11th, 2008</b> at ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN UNIVERSITY</span></p>
<p><span>On Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 as of 7PM, <a href="http://www.musicworks.ca/" target="_blank"><b>Musicworks Magazine</b></a> and the <b>Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)</b> present <b>BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD </b>at the OCAD Auditorium downtown Toronto. The evening features original Cage collaborators <b>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</b>. 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.</span></p>
<p><b><span>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 <a href="http://www.musicworks.ca/" target="_blank">Musicworks</a>, Canadas only experimental music and sound art publication.</span></b></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span><b> BIRDCAGE & HPSCHD<br>
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008<br>
OCAD Auditorium/ ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN UNIVERSITY<br>
100 McCaul Street<br>
7:00 8:00 p.m. BirdCage;<br>
8:00 - 11:00 p.m. HPSCHD<br>
Admission is $20 at the door.</b></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.musicworks.ca/" target="_blank"> http://www.musicworks.ca</a></p>
<p>For more information about the event, contact:<br>
Gayle Young, Musicworks magazine<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:sound@musicworks.ca" target="_blank">sound@musicworks.ca</a><br>
Phone: 416 977-3546.</p>
<p>For interviews, contact Joel Chadabe at <a href="mailto:joel@emf.org" target="_blank">joel@emf.org</a><br>
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