OPEN EARS 2003 - Thursday, May 8

last updated on april 29, 2003 // reach us at: info@openears.ca, or call 1-888-363-3591

Terry Riley's "In C"

12 noon in front of Kitchener City Hall

This classic piece of early minimalism will be performed by students from Wilfrid Laurier University (and friends).

o.e. symposium 1998 photo by Stefan A. Rose

Symposium 1: Music as a Conceptual Construction

2:30pm @ Zion United Church

free admission

The first installment of the Open Ears Symposium series will be chaired feature composer Melissa Hui, free-improv saxophonist, composer and 'plunderphonics' pioneer John Oswald, multi-genre clarinetist and composer François Houle, and composer James Harley.

NUMUS: Rubric Cube

8:00pm @ the King Street Theatre

$25 / $18

Rubric Cube interweaves six events, coming from six sides. Shift your perspective when all six sides of this show rotate visually and musically. This colourful multi-media event features the sounds of cymbalom, string quartet, glass gongs, solo violin, tabla, percussion, amplified writing, tape, percussion and synthesizer.

Featuring the work of composers John Sherlock, Parmela Attariwala, Peter Hatch, Annie Gosfield, Cam McKittrick, visual artists
Phil Delisle, Stefan A. Rose, Rene Albert and Tony Urquhart, and dancer Gitanjali Kolanade.

This concert is part of the NUMUS 2002-2003 season. Click the logo to visit their page.

Programme:

Group improvisation based on poetry by Jane Urquhart and visual art by Tony Urquhart

In the Zeppelin of Love (1992) John Abram
for amplified writing and tape

Sylphe (2000) Parmela Attariwala
for violin, string quartet, tabla, percussion and dancer

intermission

sancesse (2000) Cam McKittrick & David Kristian
with live string quartet and synthesizer
film produced and directed by René Albert (National Film Board of Canada)

to Licia (Mariaelisa Teresa) Donadonibus (2003) John Mark Sherlock
for cimbalom, string quartet, and cloud chamber bowls
visuals by Gideon Tomaschoff

Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery (2001) Annie Gosfield
for string quartet and percussion quartet with videography by Stefan Rose

click for audio excerpt (814k @ 128kps)

excerpted from the piece "Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery", from the CD release of the same name on Tzadik

Pamela Z

10:30pm @ the Registry Theatre

$18 / $12

San Francisco’s Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and The BodySynth™ gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts and festivals including Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival, and Other Minds.

(Click the photo to visit her web page.)

click for audio excerpt (1.1MB @ 128 kps)

excerpted from the piece "Hitobashira," from the CD which came with issue 75 of MUSICWORKS

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