THE EXECUTION PROTOCOL: A WAR OF CURRENTS: FLOATING PAINTINGS / PIANO EXECUTION — ON ANDY WARHOL'S ELECTRIC CHAIR — $250 | 250 Clouds | 200 People | 88 Notes | 2000 Volts Andy Warhol Silver Clouds (1966) / Slave Pianos Electric Chair (2007). Monday the 22nd of October, 8:30 - 11:00pm. The Great Hall of The National Gallery of Victoria. Commisioned by the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
NEVER FOREVER: FLUXUS WAS A SAJUDIS TRICK! — or: Checkmate / FluxWake for Rimvydas Survila / George Maciunas — or: Dissident Consonances 7pm, Friday 28th September 2007. ART FORUM BERLIN, Messedamm 22, Berlin Charlottenburg. Entrance Art Forum opening: 60 Euros / 2 persons.
DISSIDENT CONSONANCES or: THE IRON CURTAIN, THE FLUX-LABYRINTH & LITHUANIAN HOUSE or: Chairman George Maciunas & President Vytautas Landsbergis. music, art, non-art, theatre, diaries, letters, poetry, testimonies, political writings, manifestos, film, dance, games, food, drink and other objects by Slave Pianos, George Maciunas, Vytautas Landsbergis, Jonas Mekas, Leokadija Maciunas, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Jean DeMaque, M.K.Ciurlionis, Anonymous (14th Century), Ottavio Rinuccini, Keith Humble, George Brecht, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Larry Miller & Joe Jones. First performed at Lithuanian House, 44 Errol Street, North Melbourne, 5pm Saturday 26 / 5pm Sunday 27 May 2007.
The MCA, Darren Knight Gallery and the Remembering the 20th Century Committee presents: SLAVE PIANOS Pianology: A Schema and Historo-Materialist Pro-gnostic. A lecture demonstration for overhead-projector, whiteboard, audio-cassette machine and computer operated piano. First performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 4th Floor on Sunday 22 October 2006 in Sydney.
Two Lives in Flux: And Vice Versa. 47 min. An acoustic theatre for two soloists, two choirs, folk ensemble, six instruments and two-channel tape. Text by Slave Pianos after writings by George Maciunas, Vytautas Landsbergis and colleagues. First performed on September 6 2004 in Vilnius. Commissioned by Vilnius Festivals.
SLAVE PIANOS: Archival Materials, 1998-2005. Audio recordings, documents, photographs, texts, ephemera and scores; ed. SLAVE PIANOS. Published August 2005. http://www.slavepianos.org.
Foreign Knowledge: I Have Made A Heap of All That I Could Find. 48 min. A documentary monodrama for soprano, narrator, computer operated piano and two-channel tape. Text by Slave Pianos after writing by Peter Tyndall. First performed on Friday September 27, 2002 at the Old Court House Building, Ballarat. Commissioned by The Kunstlerhaus Bethanien and The University of Ballarat.
SLAVE PIANOS: A diagnosis, 1998-2001. Audio recordings, documents, texts and scores; ed. Christoph Keller; with essays by Giovanni Intra, Mark von Schlegell, Rob Adlington, and John McDonald (English). 32 x 32 cm, boxed set in cardboard cassette, 500 copies. Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, 2001.
The Strange Voyage of Bas Jan Ader. 28 min. A radio play in one act for six players, six instruments and two-channel tape. Text by Slave Pianos after writings by Bas Jan Ader and Donald Crowhurst. First performed on Sunday 14 October and Tuesday 16 October 2001 at the Klangbrucke in Aachen and Malkasten in Dusseldorf. Commissioned by the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.
The Broccoli Maestro. 36 min. A chamber opera in two acts for six voices and six players and two-channel tape. Libretto by Slave Pianos after writings by Tony Clark and his circle. First performed on Friday 22 June and Saturday 23 June 2001 at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Commissioned by Chamber Made Opera.
A Long Tale with Many Notes. 54 min. Twenty-seven works for string quartet, fax machine, and white board. First performed on Saturday 15th July 2000 at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Commissioned by RMIT Gallery.
Aperto. Eight works for percussionist, interactive computer display and turntablist. First performed on Monday 17th July 2000 at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Non-Objective Brass. Five works for Brass Choir. First performed on Wednesday 26th July 2000 at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia.
Non-Objective Labour: Towards a dialectical theory of corruption. Five works for string quartet and computer operated piano. First performed on Saturday 15 April and Wednesday 19 April 2000 at Baltyiski Dom Theatre in St Petersburg and at The Contemporary Music Centre in Moscow. Commissioned by the Sergey Kuryokhin International Music Festival.
The Compromised Economy of Desire and Fear. Nine works for trumpet, piano accordion, turntablist, two-channel tape and electric ensemble. First performed simultaneously at The Public Office Carpark, Melbourne and China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles on Saturday 26 February 2000. Commissioned by China Art Objects Galleries.
Caged Uncaged: Unleash the Beats Six works for violin and computer operated piano, four percussionists, computer operated piano and tape, and turntablist. First performed on Sunday 5 December 1999 at Lombard-Freid, New York. Commissioned by Lombard-Freid Fine Arts.
The Vibrational Liquid of Improvisation Seven works for double bass, percussion, guitar and computer operated piano. First performed on Saturday 4 December 1999 at Lombard-Freid, New York. Commissioned by Lombard-Freid Fine Arts.
Slave Chamber: menage a quatre Five works for string quartet, violin and computer operated piano. First performed on Friday 3 December 1999 at Lombard-Freid, New York. Commissioned by Lombard-Freid Fine Arts.
Pianology Two works for computer operated piano. First performed on Thursday 2 December 1999 at Lombard-Freid, New York. Commissioned by Lombard-Freid Fine Arts.
Music of the City. Five works for string quartet. First performed on Friday August 6 1999 at Darren Knight Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney. Commissioned by Darren Knight Gallery.
An Evening With Slave Pianos. Four works for computer operated piano. First performed on Saturday 15 May 1999 at Moore St Gallery, Melbourne. Commissioned by Darren Knight Gallery.
Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult). Ten works for computer operated piano. First performed on Tuesday 9 March 1999 at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. Commissioned by The Chartwell Trust.
Recitals of Artist's Music and Sound Works. Fifteen works for computer operated piano. First performed November 1998 at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel. Commissioned by The Chartwell Trust.