Human Ear Music and eighteen-thirty present new work by experimental composer Michael Pisaro
WHEN: September 27th, 2008, 2:45pm to 10:55pm
WHERE: eighteen-thirty, 1830 W Sunset Blvd, LA CA USA 90026
COVER: Donation
The latest in Human Ear Music's series of curated performances is a new work by composer Michael Pisaro, entitled Ascending Series 3. Scored for eighteen performers in an outdoor setting, the day-long performance will consist of various environmental listening activities (playing or responding to observed sounds), punctuated by fixed tonal content.
Ascending Series 3 will be realized on the rooftop of performance arts space eighteen-thirty, in Echo Park. The performance will last 8 hours and ten minutes, starting at 2:45pm, and will be timed so that sunset falls at the half-way point. The eighteen-piece ensemble will consist of local musicians (including Ariel Pink, Nite Jewel, Mark So and John Hastings), label organizers Julia Holter and Jason Grier, and the composer himself.
Please join us for this unique day-long event.
About Michael Pisaro:
Guitarist and composer Michael Pisaro has composed over 80 works for a great variety of instrumental combinations, including several pieces for variable instrumentation. Remarkable and unprecedented in its often novel use of silence, duration, and structure, his work is regarded by many as the most important recent work in the experimental tradition.
Pisaro's work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991) and Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991). He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha'ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival/Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere.
He has performed many of his own works and those of close associates Antoine Beuger, Kunsu Shim, Jürg Frey and Manfred Werder, as well as works from the experimental tradition, especially John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley and George Brecht. Before joining the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (where he is located presently), he taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University from 1986 to 2000.
About eighteen-thirty:
eighteen-thirty is a performance arts space that embraces a variety of media, minds and means to cultivate dialog and situations in experimental art.
About Human Ear Music:
Human Ear Music is a non-profit record label and performing arts organization devoted to the visual, musical and multimedia practices of visionary and self-reliant artists. We curate events, organize projects and make records. We move into our third year with a new series of record releases and performances that expand our engagement in all forms of music and media.
