Sentences with phrase «prepared piano»
A prepared piano is a regular piano that has been modified by placing objects on or between its strings. This creates unique and unusual sounds when the keys are played. Full definition
No, he didn't work with prepared piano.
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As part of their world tour, the multi-instrumentalist collective Penguin Cafe set up their ukuleles and prepared pianos in the garden of the Fondation Cartier.
Join us at 5:30 p.m. for a complimentary drink before the performances begin at 6 p.m. Former Cunningham dancer Silas Riener performs the newly reconstructed work Changeling, an early Merce Cunningham solo choreographed using chance procedures, to Christian Wolff's score for prepared piano, Suite.
He also worked with prepared piano.
Composer John Cage's often overlooked collaborations with African - American choreographers and dancers during the development of his iconic «prepared piano» include Bacchanale (1940), written for dancer Syvilla Fort, the subject of Ayoka Chenzira's film Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum (1979).
In this work the artist reconfigures a traditional musical instrument by inserting a software system of his own design, much as John Cage did decades earlier with his prepared piano compositions.
I couldn't have wagered a guess as to what a prepared piano could be.
Cage's early work involved experimenting with the instruments themselves, as in his noted works for «prepared piano,» for which he placed various household objects on the piano's strings to alter its sound.
Among the artworks that follow are two other performances: Allora & Calzadilla's Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations of «Ode to Joy» for a Prepared Piano (one of their best known works), and Revolving Door.
More recently, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on the Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano (2008) engages with the idiosyncratic history of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony which has been embraced over time by a range of groups, from the Nazi Party to the European Union.
Cage stood reading from a ladder, Charles Olson read from another ladder, Robert Rauschenberg showed some of his paintings and played wax cylinders of Édith Piaf on an Edison horn recorder, David Tudor performed on a prepared piano and Merce Cunningham danced.
His opener will be a piano performance by Else Olsen Storesund of John Cage's «The Perilous Night,» composed for «prepared piano.»
Not just his ideas but «the photographs of him setting up a prepared piano, reaching in to insert a few things, even that was an influence,» helping him to imagine rigging his canvas to receive poured pigment.
John Cage's invention in 1938 of the «prepared piano».
New York's electric Bang on a Can All - Stars and alumni of the Bang on a Can Summer Festival perform featured works including Morton Feldman's Ixion (1958, rev. 1962); Bryce Dessner's Letter 27 with Film featuring Charles Olson (2013); Christian Marclay's Fade to Slide with Film by Christian Marclay (2012); Anna Clyne's A Wonderful Day (2013); and Christian Wolff's Suite (I) for Prepared Piano (1954) and Exercises 29 and 30 (2011).
He pioneered the use of indeterminacy in composition, using open scores that require the performer to interpret them, and often composes for prepared piano.
A Kurt Weill song is linked to a figure painting by Max Beckmann, an orchestral piece by Darius Milhaud to a Georges Braque Cubist still life, moments from John Cage's prepared piano «Sonatas and Interludes» to a Robert Rauschenberg «combine» painting.
In the interview Theodore Dreier recalls a performance of the «Dance of Death» by Xanti Schawinsky, his classes with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and the prepared piano and other influencing faculty at Black Mountain College.