SoundSpace: NYC Downtown 1960
The Converging Lines celebrated the friendship between Eva Hesse and Sol Lewitt, and examined their influence on each other’s work. This relationship represents a subset of a larger network of influential artists living and working in lower Manhattan in the 1960’s including Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Richard Serra, and Deborah Hay. At the core of this program were works produced from this community of artists.
Euph
For double belled euphonium, composed by Phill Niblock.
Orbits
Monumental work for 80 trombones, organ, and sopranino by Henry Brant. Performed in the atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art by student, amateur, and professional trombonists from across Texas.
Music for Wilderness Lake - Dawn
Twelve trombonists positioned around the lagoon play meditative music across the water to one another at dusk and dawn while the music is cued via flags from a canoe in the lagoon. Music for Wilderness Lake, a 1979 work of environmental music written by Canadian composer and sound theorist R. Murray Schafer, explores the variable natural soundscape present at these transformative times of day. Part of The Contemporary Austin’s Sound Series.
Phil Arno, Nathaniel Brickens, Derrek Cabrerra, Ainsley Davis, Juan De La Rosa, Amanda Lester, Wayne Myers, Steve Parker, Joey Prescott, Danny Rodriguez, Javier Stuppard, and Jeriad Wood, trombones
Special thanks to Austin woodworker Aldo Valdés Böhm, along with Travis Weller, and Christopher Griffin
Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros
Led by Heloise Gold
SoundSpace: Sound Construction
This program was an exploration of these processes and the corresponding timbral result. At the core of the program were solo concert works by Edgard Varèse, Giacinto Scelsi, and Fausto Romitelli. Expanding outward, the program explored prepared instruments—traditional instruments that have been manipulated or hacked—inspired by the work of John Cage, Vinko Globokar, and Fred Frith. This program also showcased contemporary examples of invented, hacked, and manipulated instruments and interactive toys.
SoundSpace: Free Music and Community
SoundSpace: Music Outsiders
Composition No. 19
for 100 marching tubas, by Anthony Braxton
SoundSpace: Graphic Notation
This program featured music that implements abstract symbols rather than a conventional score comprised of clefs, musical staff, and note heads. This concept can take on many forms, including the projection of seismograph readings onto a trombone slide in Jim Altieri’s Seismicity, the abstraction of musical parameters and symbols in Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise, and in the 11th-century chant of the mystic Hildengard von Bingen.
SoundSpace: MUSICIRCUS