[spectre] RAINFOREST IV - DAVID TUDOR - 3rd & 4th of July - AREA10 - LONDON!

Mon Jun 8 22:01:34 CEST 2009

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A10lab, Area10, Apo33, Noise=Noise, Beyond Signal, Fibrr Records &  
Sound Research Practice, Goldsmiths presents:
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RAINFOREST IV - DAVID TUDOR
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"a collaborative environmental work, spatially mixing the live sounds  
of suspended sculptures and found objects, with their transformed  
reflections in an audio system. "

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PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION

3rd & 4th of July 2009 - from 2pm to 23pm

£10 (online booking http://www.wegottickets.com)
£12 (on the door)

at AREA10 PROJECT SPACE
Eagle Wharf
Peckham Hill Street
London - SE15 5JT
(White building behind the Library)

Buses: 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 436, 345, 177, 312, 343 Train: Peckham Rye Station

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"In 1973 I made ?Rainforest IV? where the objects that the sounds are  
sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in  
space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are  
hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The  
idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes  
of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact  
microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of  
sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it's  
hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a  
harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the  
room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other  
point in the space. It's (can be) a large group piece actually, any  
number of people can participate in it. It's important that each  
person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and  
performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the  
piece. I've found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover  
how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its  
been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It's been done by as  
large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done.?  
David Tudor

Performed by

RYAN JORDAN
JULIEN OTTAVI
KASPER T TOEPLITZ
JEAN-BAPTISTE THIEBAUT
JOHN BOWERS
DOMINIQUE LEROY
PHILIP JULIAN
CHRIS WEAVER
JENNY PICKETT
RYO IKESHIRO
DAWN SCARFE
ANDY WHEDDON
DUNCAN RAVENHALL
ANTONIS ANTONIOU

and more

Thanks to ResonanceFM for their support!

more informations:

http://www.a10lab.info/rainforest

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Who is David Tudor?

David Tudor was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1926. He studied with H.  
William Hawke (organ, theory), Irma Wolpe Rademacher (piano) and  
Stephan Wolpe (composition and analysis).His first professional  
activity was as an organist, and he subsequently became known as one  
of the leading avante-garde pianists of our time. Tudor gave highly  
acclaimed first or early performances of worksby contemporary  
composers Earle Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz  
Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, Stephan Wolpe, and La Monte Young, among  
others.

Tudor began working with John Cage in the early fifties, as a member  
of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and with Cage's Project of Music  
for Electronic Tape. Tudor gradually ended his active career as a  
pianist, turning exclusively to the composition of live electronic  
music.

As a composer, Tudor chose specific electronic components and their  
interconnections to define both composition and performance drawing  
upon resources that were both flexible and complex. Tudor was one of  
four Core Artists who collaborated on the design of the Pepsi Pavilion  
for Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, a project of Experiments in Art and  
Technology, Inc. Many of Tudor's compositions have involved  
collaborative visual forces: light systems, laser projections, dance,  
theater, television, film. Tudor's last project, Toneburst: Maps and  
Fragments, was a collaboration with visual artist Sophia Ogielska.  
Tudor's several collaborations with visual artist Jacqueline Monnier  
included the development of a kite environment installed at the  
Whitney Museum (Philip Morris, NYC) in 1986, at the exhibition  
"Klangraume" in Dusseldorf in 1988, and at the Jack Tilton Gallery in  
New York City in 1990. Other collaborators have included Lowell Cross,  
Molly Davies, Viola Farber, Anthony Martin, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Tudor had been affiliated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company  
(MCDC) since its inception in the summer of 1953. In 1992, after  
CageÕs death, Tudor took over as Music Director of MCDC. Merce  
Cunningham has commissioned numerous works from Tudor, including  
Rainforest I (1968); Toneburst (1974); Weatherings (1978); Phonemes  
(1981); Sextet for Seven (1982); Fragments (1984); Webwork (1987),  
Five Stone Wind (1988), Virtual Focus (1990); Neural Network Plus  
(1992); and most recently Soundings: Ocean Diary (1994) for what was  
John Cage's last conception, Ocean.

http://www.emf.org/tudor/

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Musicians & Artists websites:

http://jennypickett.co.uk
http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma701rj/
http://www.noiser.org
http://www.apo33.org
http://jbthiebaut.free.fr/
http://www.myspace.com/tonesucker
http://www.leftright.org/
http://www.cmx.org.uk/
http://www.dawnscarfe.co.uk/
http://resonancefm.com/
http://www.ry-om.net/index.htm
http://www.myspace.com/aseaofsound
http://www.myspace.com/antonioua

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