Two talks on experimental music
Date: Thursday 26 November 2009
Venue: The Shop, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
David Ryan, Reader in Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University has long been involved with the experimental music tradition coming out of John Cage and the New York School, both as a performer and commentator. He has recently contributed to The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (Ashgate Academic press 2009) and is one of the authors of a forthcoming monograph devoted to Christian Wolff (Ashgate Academic Press 2010). In these two talks he looks at works by Wolff and Cage in a broader cultural context, looking at their ramifications for current artistic practices as a whole.
Christian Wolff: 'Changing the System'
Wolff's 'Changing the System' (1972-3) is a large scale work that examines the relationship between making sounds, creating structures, and the organization of 'open form' works and their social resonance.
John Cage: 'Europeras'
Cage's 'Europera no. 5' (1991) is the culmination of a series of works that attempt to deconstruct the emotional tour-de-force of 19th century opera and, through chance procedures, convert it to Cage's own ideas of theatre - with some surprising results.
Venue: The Shop, Jesus Lane, Cambridge
David Ryan, Reader in Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University has long been involved with the experimental music tradition coming out of John Cage and the New York School, both as a performer and commentator. He has recently contributed to The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (Ashgate Academic press 2009) and is one of the authors of a forthcoming monograph devoted to Christian Wolff (Ashgate Academic Press 2010). In these two talks he looks at works by Wolff and Cage in a broader cultural context, looking at their ramifications for current artistic practices as a whole.
Christian Wolff: 'Changing the System'
Wolff's 'Changing the System' (1972-3) is a large scale work that examines the relationship between making sounds, creating structures, and the organization of 'open form' works and their social resonance.
John Cage: 'Europeras'
Cage's 'Europera no. 5' (1991) is the culmination of a series of works that attempt to deconstruct the emotional tour-de-force of 19th century opera and, through chance procedures, convert it to Cage's own ideas of theatre - with some surprising results.
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