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In this May 2010 issue:
1. Save the Dates for Dane Rudhyar
2. Listen with your eyes on RadiOM.org
3. No Such Thing as Silence
4. Eventwire: Baggage Allowance
5. Eventwire: O Sleep
6. Eventwire: The Residents
1. Save the Dates for Dane Rudhyar
I am marching on, my friends,
into my space and my silence.
It is as if I were all open,
open like an ever-receding sky.
It is so quiet
I can sense the heart beats
of multitudes of destinies.
I am poised in all destinies.
-from 23. by Dane Rudhyar
This fall, Other Minds will invoke the spirit of composer, artist, philosopher, and astrologist Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) with a special celebration of his life and work. Save the dates!
Monday, September 27
Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco
and
Wednesday, September 29
Valley Presbyterian Church, Portola Valley
Born Daniel Chennevière in Paris, Rudhyar moved to New York City in 1916, just a year after Varèse did the same. He composed highly dissonant, polytonal music, and studied unusual philosophical movements including occultism, astrology, and Theosophy. Rudhyar would go on to publish over forty books and hundreds of articles on astrology and spirituality, whose principles were further illuminated in his artworks, whether musical, visual (this painting is titled Creative Man), or poetic. He lived the final decade of his life in Palo Alto, California, and died September 13, 1985, in San Francisco.
Other Minds is proud to present a celebration of Rudhyar's works 25 years after his passing. Keep an eye on MindAlert for more details about the program, which will include musical performances, panel discussions, and a special exhibition of Rudhyar's writings, compositions, and paintings.
This program has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
Creative Man by permission of Leyla Rudhyar Hill. Copyright © 2001 Leyla Rudhyar Hill. All Rights Reserved.
2. Listen with your eyes on RadiOM.org
Now available on radiOM.org: photos! We're rolling out images from the Other Minds Archive to help illuminate audio programs on radiOM. Here's a few examples of what you can find on radiOM:
Images from Other Minds Festivals
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Morton Subotnick, photo by John Fago
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Michael Nyman, photo by Dennis Hearne
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Historic Events
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Tom Zahuranec at a KPFA Radio Event, 1971, photo by Charles Amirkhanian
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Rare images from the History of New Music
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Germaine Tailleferre, 1973, photo by Charles Amirkhanian
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Conlon Nancarrow's piano roll puncher, 1977, photo by Carol Law
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Keep going back to radiOM as we continue to add images from our archive. And meanwhile, OM wishes a belated Happy Birthday to Brian Eno, who turned 62 last Saturday.
Ode To Gravity: Brian Eno (Special Edition, I of IV) (1980)
Speaking of Music: An Interview with Brian Eno (1988)
3. No Such Thing as Silence
If you're trying to fill out your summer reading list or hunting for a great book club nomination, don't miss this new title:
No Such Thing As Silence
John Cage's 4'33"
by Kyle Gann
272 pages, Yale University Press
Composer, musicologist and music critic Kyle Gann (Bard College) examines the moment in American culture that brought about and was defined by John Cage's "silent piece." The book leaps from this one work to a portrait of the US art world from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Gann teases out the resonances of Cage's work in paintings of the Hudson River School, music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and a multitude of other contemporary events, all the while sketching a portrait of one of the most contentious and (for many Other Minds) influential composers of the 20th century.
4. Eventwire: Baggage Allowance
Baggage Allowance
Pamela Z
Thursday-Saturday, May 20-22, 8pm
Sunday, May 23, 3pm
Z Space @ Theater Artaud, San Francisco
Baggage Allowance is a new intermedia work by Pamela Z (OM 4) exploring the connections between people and the belongings (and memories) they cart around. A sonically and visually layered installation work and solo performance piece, Baggage Allowance touches on the ball-and-chain-ness of dragging one's things all over the world and illuminates the concept of baggage in its many senses: physical, intellectual, and emotional... baggage as impediment and baggage as treasure.
5. Eventwire: O Sleep
O Sleep
Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong
with Michael Carter, Luciano Chessa, Shayna Dunkleman, Dohee Lee, Heike Liss and Alice Wu
Friday & Saturday, May 21 & 22, 8:30pm
O Sleep is an improvised opera inspired by the drama, science and mystery of sleep and dream life. Composer/performer Theresa Wong leads this exploration of our sleeping minds for Southern Exposure in collaboration with Michael Carter, Luciano Chessa, Shayna Dunkleman, Ellen Fullman (OM 8), Dohee Lee, Heike Liss and Alice Wu. This multi-dimensional piece focuses on the synthesis of improvised and composed music, text, movement, video and the use of architectural and natural space in performance. The structures and concepts of performance in this opera incorporate the element of the unknown not to tell a story, but rather to cast a question about the story of our universal and daily dormant drama.
6. Eventwire: The Residents
The Residents
Friday, June 4, 7:30pm
Gallery B, Berkeley Art Museum
Rendered anonymous by their costumes, which typically include eyeball helmets and tuxedos, The Residents have since 1972 released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and film shorts, ten DVDs, and three CD-ROM projects. Appearing as part of L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA, The Residents will present a sneak preview of a work in progress on Friday, June 4, followed by screenings of a selection of their videos at the PFA Theater on Wednesday, June 9.
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