New Cathaysia
NOTE C. NEW CATHAYSIA AND GONDWANALAND, A DIAGNOSIS
Victoria University of Wellington, Darren Knight Gallery & the Remembering the 20th Century Committee present: SLAVE PIANOS NOTE C. NEW CATHAYSIA AND GONDWANALAND, A DIAGNOSIS at Adam Art Gallery, Friday 18 June 2010, 8pm. A lecture demonstration for overhead-projector, two whiteboards, two data projectors, rapid wire and pulley mechanical communication system, audio-cassette machine, record player, two actors, violin, two clarinets, bassoon, EMS VCS3 and computer operated piano.
Slave Pianos, New Cathaysia, Programme Text
Victoria University of Wellington, Darren Knight Gallery & the Remembering the 20th Century Committee present:
SLAVE PIANOS NOTE C. NEW CATHAYSIA AND GONDWANALAND, A DIAGNOSIS
at Adam Art Gallery, Friday 18 June 2010, 8pm.
Introit
| 1 | 00:00 | S1 | L. Budd Studies for Existence 1998 / G. Orozco Ligne dAbandon 1993 [R,P] |
| 2 | 01:30 | S2 | J. Beuys & N. J. Paik In Memoriam George Maciunas 1978 [R,Q] |
| S1 | J. Dashper Gate Experience IV n.d [R,P] | ||
| 3 | 04:30 | S3 | M. von Schlegell Slave Pianos: A Schema & Historo-Materialist Pro-gnostic 2001 [A] |
Rending of the Veil
| 4 | 06:00 | S1 | L. Lye Trilogy (Flip and Two Twisters) 1977 [R,P,Q] |
| S3 | G. Intra Slave Artists of the Piano Cult: An Introduction 2001 [A] | ||
| 5 | 09:00 | S2 | C. Marclay One Thousand Cycles 1981 [R,Q] |
| S3 | C. Kraus Aliens & Anorexia 2000 [A] | ||
| S4 | D. Workman (Thela) Look Out! The Fucking Hot Jet 1995 [R] | ||
| 6 | 13:30 | S2 | I. Tillers Queue Actions 1973 [Q] |
| S4 | G. Brecht Comb Music (Comb Event) 1959–1962 [R,P,Q] |
Collects
| 7 | 16:30 | S1 | A. Selenitsch Toora Lee: Four Pieces for Bellow Organ 1973 [Q] |
| S2 | K. Schwitters Ursonate (Extract) 1922–32 [R,P] | ||
| S4 | D. Malone & M. Popperwell Strike Church 1990 [R,P] | ||
| 8 | 21:00 | S1 | S. Pianos Dissident Consonances 2007 [R,P] |
| S2 | G. Maciunas Death Always Walked Around Me 1978 [Q] | ||
| S3 | V. Landsbergis & G. Maciunas Private Correspondence 1962–1966 [A] | ||
| S4 | J. Mekas Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas 1992 [F] |
Consecration of the Elements
| 9 | 27:00 | M. Creed Work No. 117 1995 | |
| 10 | 29:00 | S4 | P. Corner Carrot Chew Performance 1964 / B. Apple Apple Chew Performance 2010 [Q,A] |
| 11 | 30:30 | S1 | J. Tinguely Hegel 1988 [R,P] |
| S4 | R. van Hout Bank Roll 1998 [R,P] |
Anthem
| 12 | 33:30 | S2 | M. Duchamp La Mariee Mise a Nu Par Ses 1913 [Q] / M. Duchamp Musical Erratum 1913 [Q] |
| 13 | 35:00 | S3 | Paul McCartney Ebony and Ivory 1982 [A] |
| S4 | E. Asse, V. Fishkin & D. Gutoff Music-Hall Whistling Performance 1995 [Q] | ||
| 14 | 38:00 | S1 | J. Nixon, M. Fusinato, R. Nolan, S. Bram (Solver) 3 1997 [R,P] |
| S2 | P.Tyndall 6 1981 [R,Q] | ||
| S3 | P. Tyndall Private Correspondence (Brian Kennedy) 2000 [A] |
Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Elements
| 15 | 42:30 | S2 | V. Komar & A. Melamid Music Writing Passport 1976 [Q] |
| S3 | J. Nixon & M. Fusinato Private Correspondence (Slave Pianos) 1999 [A] | ||
| 16 | 45:30 | S1 | J. Jones Flux Music Box 1965 [R,P] |
| S3 | R. Gopas Pedagogical materials & anecdotes c.1970 [A] | ||
| S4 | M. K. Ciurlionis Ar Vejai Pute VL.274 1908 [Q] | ||
| 50:00 | END |
P=Piano & EMS VCS3, Q=Quartet(Violin,Clarinet,Clarinet,Bassoon), A=Actors, R=Archival Recording, F=Film
Tristan Carter (Violin), Justus Rozemond & Nicholas Walshe (Clarinets), Pieta Hextall (Bassoon), Jason Post (EMS VCS3), Debbie Fish & Mariya Kupriyenko (Actors)
SLAVE PIANOS thank Tina Barton, Bernie Gruschow, Andy Hummel, Dugal McKinnon, Laura Preston, Thomasin Sleigh and Teaching Services
Nicholas Walshe (Clarinet), Tristan Carter (Violin), Jason Post (EMS Synth I)
Pieta Hextall (Bassoon), Justus Rozemond & Nicholas Walshe (Clarinets), Tristan Carter (Violin)
Laura Preston (Assistant Curator, Adam Art Gallery), Dugal McKinnon (Director, Lilburn Electroacoustic Music Studios)
Slave Pianos, New Cathaysia, Archival Material (Correspondence)
Slave Pianos, New Cathaysia, Archival Material (Correspondence)
To: dk@slavepianos.org
CC: dadsonic@xtra.co.nz
Subject: pianoheaven
From: dadsonic@xtra.co.nz
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:21:50 +1200
hi Michael, Danius, Neil, Rohan & David, Phil Dadson from Auckland here. I don’t think we’v met in fact, but I’v been following the work of Slave Pianos for a while now and was particularly pleased to find your work on Cockatoo Island for Sydney Biennale a couple of days ago. I’v just returned from there, from a gig at Superdeluxe@ Artspace as part of the Biennale.
Excuse me suggesting this myself, but I have a couple of works I’v often thought I’d love to hear interpreted by Slave Pianos and would like to invite you to consider it. There are quite a few in fact, but one in particular, is a three piano work titled 3DMusic, part of a triadic series performed at Sydney Biennale in 1986. Densely polyrhythmic with vocal utterances here and there - devilish for three players to synch with in places - was performed on three old electric pianos for the Biennale in what was then the amazingly acoustic Cellblock (the old Sydney womans prison block), and then at another time on three little Chinese uprights for a performance arranged by Sydney’s North Shore Chamber music association. This latter was an unexpectedly and wonderfully sonorous performance, with one of the uprights, by name of Happy, falling on its face right at the start of the performance. We couldn’t get the sustain pedal off and after righting the piano, played the piece through, full sustain all the way . I seem to recall half the audience leaving.
Another work that may be of interest is Gung Ho 1,2,3D . .. (this one you can check out an excerpt of, on Youtube if you wish. Devised for From Scratch in 1980, & dedicated to Rewi Alley, it again is another in the Triad series. A Slave Pianos interpretation could I think, make a very intruiging remix ! Which brings up another possibility. Andrew Clifford, sound & art curator, presently assistant director and curator at Gus Fisher Gallery in auckland is doing a research project around From Scratch performances, concepts, instruments etc . . part of which, downtrack, may hopefully involve an exhibition and remix album. One of my choices would be to invite Slave Pianos to do a remix of a FS work…could it interest you? A collaboration perhaps?
Keep up the great work. I look/hear forward to experiencing another outing sometime soon. Unfortunately the Adam gallery information I just received today, is too short notice for me to alter this week’s plans for. But another time. Any chance you’re visiting Auckland? let me know. It’d be a pleasure to meetup with you if you were available and interested to discuss this further sonically Phil D
Slave Pianos, New Cathaysia, Institutional (Catalogue)
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