Pauline Oliveros Concert
Date: Saturday December 4
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Rarig Center - Proscenium Auditorium
Pauline Oliveros
See her biography here
Program:
Traveling Companions, 1980
Length variable
All the performers are improvising their sounds and actions according to
a chart and guidelines that direct attention.
For example,
- Change your playing or dancing so that all attributes are again equal to the other performer.
- Play or dance opposite to the perceived possibility, for example: if someone is playing or dancing more, play or dance less.
- Choose any of the other possibilities, for example: if someone is doing more, play or dance slower, faster, simpler, complexer, softer (smaller) or louder (larger).
- Play or dance incompetition to the perceived possibility, for example, if someone is doing more then do more than that performer.
Performed by UMN Arts Students:
Heather M. Parker, Dancer/Choreographer, UMN Dance Program
Brianna Z. Kauer, Dancer, UMN Dance Program
Miriam A. Castro, Dancer, UMN Dance Program
Owen Weaver, Percussionist, UMN School of Music
Matt Shervey, Percussionist, UMN School of Music
Phil Hatcher, Percussionist, UMN School of Music
Sound Piece for any ensemble, 1998
Variable Length
Sound Piece was composed for a class at the San Francisco Art Institute and is intended for people without musical training. The piece is interdisciplinary in nature and invites theater.
Performed by Renegade Muse, UMN Student Contemporary Music Ensemble, and
University of Minnesota Students and Alumni
Performers:
"---the fierce urgency of now----", 2004
Pauline Oliveros, Solo accordion and electronics
"I dedicate this music to a world without war."
Listening to this space I sound the space. Listening to the energy of all who are present I sound this energy. Listening to my listening and your listening I make this music here and now with the assistance of all that there is.
"---the fierce urgency of now--" is a quote from a speech on Vietnam by Dr. Martin Luther King. Now as never before we must change the way we are operating in the world as King urged in his speech. His words are reverberating as strongly as ever. We must stop the violence.