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SUMMARY:John Cage & Lejaren Hiller // HPSCHD
DESCRIPTION:Fri, May 3, 2013 - 5:00pm - 10:00pm\nSat, May 4, 2013 - 1:
 00pm - 6:00pm\n\nEyebeam: 540 W 21st St., NYC 10011\n\n\nHPSCHD, John
  Cage’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered b
 y many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the
  20th century. Its very nature is inextricable from the tumult of the 
 year it premiered, 1969. ISSUE Project Room presents this spectacle on
  May 3rd and 4th in collaboration with Electronic Music Foundation and
  Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, as part of the 2013 Darmstadt Esse
 ntial Repertoire series. This new production features composer Joel C
 hadabe, who has directed performances of HPSCHD throughout the world
 , as artistic advisor. Keyboardist Neely Bruce, who performed at the 
 1969 premiere, plays in the harpsichord ensemble. Artist Bradley Eros
  curates an extensive body of film and video artists to interpret the
  immersive visual score.\nPerformances take place at Eyebeam Art and T
 echnology Center on Friday, May 3 from 5pm to 10pm and onSaturday, M
 ay 4 from 1pm until 6pm. The audience is invited to arrive and leave a
 t any time during the performance and refreshments are available court
 esy of Cloud Coffee. Kayrock will be screenprinting Tshirts live based
  on the original HPSCHD design by Gary Viskupic (1969).\nAbout HPSCHD
 A collaboration between Cage and the electronic composer Lejaren Hille
 r, HPSCHD is known for being Cage’s first and most significant for
 ay into utilizing the computer to execute the chance operations of the
  I-Ching. The inspiration for the piece came from a commission for ha
 rpsichord, an instrument disliked by Cage. Starting with material from
  Mozart’s Dice Game, Cage and Hiller plucked from virtuosic reperto
 ry by Beethoven, Gottschalk, and Busoni (among others). Hiller’s pro
 grams in the FORTRAN computer language, named ICHING, DICEGAME, and HP
 SCHD reshaped this material for the scores. Hiller also produced multi
 ple tapes of microtonal electronic sounds to be played simultaneously 
 with the harpsichords. The event premiered in May of 1969 at the Unive
 rsity of Illinois’s Assembly Hall, within a visual environment of hu
 ndreds of projected images and films, many supplied by NASA. Thousands
  came to experience the event. In retrospect, HPSCHD can be describe
 d as Cage’s prescient response to Marshall McCluhan, Happenings, the
  moon landing, the history of Western Classical music, hippy utopianis
 m, Buckminster Fuller, and perhaps even a prediction of the computer a
 ge and its effects on human consciousness. Presented on the heels of t
 he Cage centenary, Darmstadt’s presentation of HPSCHD offers a 21s
 t century audience the opportunity to reflect on how this totality of 
 ideas has transformed in the 44 years since its inception.\n\n\n\n\n\n
 For more information visit http://conectom.leimay.org/events/john-cage
 -lejaren-hiller-hpschd
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CATEGORIES:"john cage mega show", gesamtkunstwerk
LOCATION:Eyebeam
WEBSITE:http://issueprojectroom.org/event/john-cage-lejaren-hiller-hps
 chd
URL:http://issueprojectroom.org/event/john-cage-lejaren-hiller-hpschd
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