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Directory
Bob McKenna. “Although I had worked with metal, glass, and wood for years, on a trip to Australia several years ago I began to work with sand stone. I made 14 sculptures …” Go here
Resonance. KISS (Kyma International Sound Symposium) 2019, took place in Busan, South Korea, 29 August — 1 September, Daedong College. Go here
Text-Sound. Here’s a collection of text-sound work. And a charming start by Michael Kupietz. Go here
Yikidūsō (A Dream)
John Eaton Foundation, on March 30, 2019, at Symphony Space in New York, celebrated Eaton’s legacy … Go here
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Happening
New York
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
October 24—December 15
David Tudor / Rainforest V (variation 1 ) Go here
MoMA also presents 12 performances of Forest Speech (1978/79), a part of the Rainforest family of works that evolved from the sound score David Tudor created for choreographer Merce Cunningham’s 1968 dance RainForest. Go here for schedule & tickets
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China
At the Musicacoustica-Beijing festival, Marc Battier’s Rustle and Shimmer for Chinese bamboo flutes and percussion opened the inaugural concert on Oct0ber 22. He also gave a lecture titled Music & Science: Some Interactions.
Taiwan
He will also be a keynote speaker at the WOCMAT conference to be held in Taiwan, where his Mist on a Hill, for pipa and electronics, will be performed during the conference on December 13/14.
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Comments
Warren Burt, composer, Australia, on Here and Now : “What I get from all these articles is the sense of social engagement that all the writers show. For all of them, music-making is an interactive form of sound making that involves curators, composers, performers and audiences, often in new(ish) configurations. Far from the myth of the detached performer or composer, the image presented here is one of engaged people creating …