![]() ![]() He is a violinist in the Kreutzer Quartet and has an avid interest in the application of new music to pedagogy, for which he was awarded his doctorate, promoting artistic creativity to a wider audience. His music has been released and performed throughout Europe, America and Japan by leading contemporary music specialists. He studied at Michigan State University and the Royal College of Music. ![]() Cage’s lecture overtly responds to the establishment of the electromagnetic recording. The score of the lecture can be understood as a reaction to one of the most momentous cuts in twentieth century’s media history. Mihailo Trandafilovski is a Macedonian-born composer, violinist and educator. During this time, approximately 100 hours of improvisation were recorded, which reveal aspects of this daily. John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing is one of his early, legendarily forbidding speeches first held in 1950. He is the Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter is the founder and violinist of the Kreutzer Quartet and the musical director of Longbow. He has curated projects for the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the V&A, Tate St Ives and Kunsthallen Bergen, among others. He is the dedicatee of over 400 works for violin by a wide variety of composers and has recorded over 70 CDs. Peter Sheppard Skærved has had an international career which includes projects in Europe, Asia and the USA. In recognition of her contribution to British cultural life, she was nominated for a Barbados Golden Jubilee Award. London-born with Barbadian heritage, her most recent publication Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings-On, has been described as 'subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic'. Listen to the recording:ĭorothea Smartt is an internationally respected poet and live artist. The event is introduced by Gramophone Award-winning conductor Richard Bernas. At the same time Cage’s seminal text Lecture on Nothing will be performed by poet Dorothea Smartt. Its sounds derived from star charts, the score was written for Merce Cunningham’s dance Aeon (1961), for which Rauschenberg designed the costumes and sets. In the spirit of their unique collaboration, this evening sees violinists Peter Sheppard Skærved and Mihailo Trandafilovski play the violin folio Cage dedicated to Rauschenberg from Atlas Eclipticalis. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments. Most famously Rauschenberg’s all-white paintings preceded and influenced Cage’s notorious work, the silent piece 4’33”. John Cage (Septem August 12, 1992) was an American composer. Their close creative relationship saw them collaborate on performances at Black Mountain College, and later Rauschenberg designed stage sets for Cage and Merce Cunningham’s dance events. The whole is divided into five large parts, in the proportion 7, 6, 14, 14, 7. ![]() There are forty-eight such units, each having forty-eight measures. Robert Rauschenberg first met John Cage in New York in the early 1950s. of 18 This lecture was printed in Incontri Musicali, August 1959, There are four measures in each line and twelve lines in each unit of the rhythmio structure. He was also a writer: this site is about his paragraph-long stories anecdotes, thoughts, and jokes. With her new performance, Fritz further pursues her romance with dance, poetry and the digital screen.This event sees the work of John Cage animate the unique setting of this major exhibition of his inspiration and friend, Robert Rauschenberg. John Cage was an American composer, Zen buddhist, and mushroom eater. In 2017 she performed ‘Indispensible Blue’ at Beursschouwburg, another poetic quest combining choreography and the theme of our digital world. ![]() She’s since lived and worked here as a dancer, performance-maker and poet. Silence and text are carefully distributed over the time structure, forming a subtle duet, in which this composition - because that is what it is in the end - explains, among other things, its own structure as it unfolds.īryana Fritz was born in Chicago and has studied dance in Minneapolis (US), Essen (DE) and with P.A.R.T.S. Together they form 48 time blocks of 48 bars, all of which follow the ratios 7-6-14-14-7 at the level of the number of units (the bars) and at the level of the number of blocks. Cage divides the text into four columns so that it has 4 "measures" per line, which can be filled with either text or silence. Moreover, the Lecture on Nothing is literally composed: it uses the same "rhythmic" structure as he used in his compositions from the previous years, with different structural levels all following the same proportional division. "Nothing" is literally the most important subject, in a text in which Cage collects anecdotes, makes references to Zen Buddhism (which he was deeply involved in at the time) and above all plays an amusing game with the audience's expectations. Non-conformist as he was, John Cage chose to turn a lecture about his music into a work that is not even a lecture (at the most, it keeps up appearances) and is not even about his music. ![]()
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