Funny coincidence, Wolfgang and Phil! (and so great to hear from you)
I will be broadcasting it on May 25 for Radio Tenthaus in Oslo (105.8 FM).
…it’s a radio/pandemic revisiting of an earlier/live/in person thing I did with it in London (2010) at the Showroom called ‘Veiled Conversation No.9: An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words’ https://www.theshowroom.org/events/sound-threshold-presents-veiled-conversat...
Hope you are well and
Pedro
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John Cage's Empty Words
From: Joseph Celli (josephcelli99@gmail.commailto:josephcelli99@gmail.com)
This Friday evening a 12 hour streamed performance of John Cage's Empty Words from Wesleyan University, Connecticut stay up & drink some coffee! We did the complete American Premiere in 1981 in Hartford as well as 25 NPR stations.
WHAT'S IN MIND IS TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT READING
From the evening of April 30 into the morning of May 1, Stuart Wheeler will perform John Cage's 12-hour overnight piece Empty Words. Cage composed this in the 1970s by fragmenting and collaging language from Henry David Thoreau's 14 volumes of journals. The piece is divided into four sections, each two and a half hours long with 30-minute intermissions. It begins with a variety of large and small units of language (phrases, words, syllables and letters) and steadily removes the larger units until the final section (timed to begin precisely at dawn) where only single letters and silences remain. Cage thought of this as "a transition from language to music."
The performance will take place over Zoom; all times are in Eastern Standard Time. It's a slumber party, so you're encouraged to put it on, stay up as late as you want, take a nap, go to sleep, wake up. At dawn, open your windows and doors to let in the sounds from the outside world.
Pre-concert talk by Stuart Wheeler on Thursday April 29 at 4:30 PM https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/95280976520?pwd=WVNneElOQkZHVGNMLzdUbm5CY3dvZz09https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/url?q=https*3A*2F*2Fwesleyan.zoom.us*2Fj*2F95280976520*3Fpwd*3DWVNneElOQkZHVGNMLzdUbm5CY3dvZz09&sa=D&ust=1614350112894000&usg=AOvVaw112nSUIa_S1NMXDI1UPK0w__;JSUlJSUlJQ!!OToaGQ!4Q8fwjMmQZ5zS8A-FgpWM-7Ud_Zct8okD40LFTRvVzhf6t0_2EgMEcNFsQtkz9g$
Performance of Empty Words from Friday April 30 at 8:17 PM to Saturday May 1 at 7:47 AM https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/97102229418https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/97102229418?fbclid=IwAR3zRnjHLKWC0np38X9PAHjVBs3h4yEJwvllnUXK36o1Cx3SBnzYqFnzxjA__;!!OToaGQ!4Q8fwjMmQZ5zS8A-FgpWM-7Ud_Zct8okD40LFTRvVzhf6t0_2EgMEcNFlegeLHE$ _______________________________________________ Experimental-Intermedia mailing list Experimental-Intermedia@mailman.thing.netmailto:Experimental-Intermedia@mailman.thing.net https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailman.thing.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listin...
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