A celebration of John Cage
CAGE DAY / Fri 27 Jan 2012
1.10 pm Glucksman Gallery, UCC FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
CHILD OF TREE / Sat 28 Jan
Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St., Cork City
from 6pm, walk in / out whenever you like!
Quiet Music Ensemble and the Quiet Club play a selection of works by John Cage.
Quiet Music Ensemble, formed in 2008 and directed by John Godfrey, is dedicated to the performance of experimental and improvised music. The group has worked closely with internationally renowned exponents of experimental music, presented several high-profile events in Ireland and broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm. In 2012, QME will release its first CD.
The Quiet Club is Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy. Formed in 2006, the Quiet Club has met with considerable success and has become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation groups. The Quiet Club continues to push the boundaries of sound making and listening by employing a wide range of sound-making devices ranging from stones, homemade instruments, electronics, amplified textures, theremins and field recordings.
Outrageous, contrary, crazy, profound? The composer John Cage is perhaps best known as the creator of the notorious 'silent' piece 4'33”. Bringing chance, environmental sound, new performance methods and much more into the world of music, he questioned most of the deepest held beliefs about what music is... and can be. He scandalized audiences world-wide with astonishing ideas and extraordinary stage-acts. But Cage was no mere sensationalist, out only to shock: his philosophies, drawing upon spiritual practices from all over the world, are deeply considered and profound. He expressed them in many ways, including music, theatre, the visual arts and in written form. With an astonishing legacy of influences that extend far beyond music, he is one of the most important figures of Twentieth Century art. And yet… the deeply humane nature of his work is seldom recognised, not least because so little beyond the ‘enfant terrible’ pieces is well known.
2012 is the centenary of Cage’s birth, and Child of Tree is a celebration of the unjustly neglected music he created in the last 20 years of his life, 1972 to ’92. This is music of beauty and oftentimes deep serenity. Ranging from pieces made of a sparse, seemingly windswept freeze of notes to a delicious hotpot of environmental noise, from re-written Satie to exuberant circuses of sound, this is music of amazing variety and scintillating colours, deep meditation, humour and elation. It is a joy to be celebrating the work of this incredible artist!
“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson.
And so we make our lives by what we love.” – John Cage
Child of Tree will be recorded for broadcast on Nova, RTÉ lyric fm’s new music programme presented by Bernard Clarke, Sundays from 9pm.
Triskel Arts Centre
Tel: 021 427 2022
Website: HYPERLINK "http://www.triskelartscentre.ie/"www.triskelartscentre.ie
Triskel acknowledges the financial support from the Arts Council
Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St., Cork City
from 6pm, walk in / out whenever you like!
Quiet Music Ensemble and the Quiet Club play a selection of works by John Cage.
Quiet Music Ensemble, formed in 2008 and directed by John Godfrey, is dedicated to the performance of experimental and improvised music. The group has worked closely with internationally renowned exponents of experimental music, presented several high-profile events in Ireland and broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm. In 2012, QME will release its first CD.
The Quiet Club is Mick O’Shea and Danny McCarthy. Formed in 2006, the Quiet Club has met with considerable success and has become recognised as one of Ireland’s leading sound art improvisation groups. The Quiet Club continues to push the boundaries of sound making and listening by employing a wide range of sound-making devices ranging from stones, homemade instruments, electronics, amplified textures, theremins and field recordings.
Outrageous, contrary, crazy, profound? The composer John Cage is perhaps best known as the creator of the notorious 'silent' piece 4'33”. Bringing chance, environmental sound, new performance methods and much more into the world of music, he questioned most of the deepest held beliefs about what music is... and can be. He scandalized audiences world-wide with astonishing ideas and extraordinary stage-acts. But Cage was no mere sensationalist, out only to shock: his philosophies, drawing upon spiritual practices from all over the world, are deeply considered and profound. He expressed them in many ways, including music, theatre, the visual arts and in written form. With an astonishing legacy of influences that extend far beyond music, he is one of the most important figures of Twentieth Century art. And yet… the deeply humane nature of his work is seldom recognised, not least because so little beyond the ‘enfant terrible’ pieces is well known.
2012 is the centenary of Cage’s birth, and Child of Tree is a celebration of the unjustly neglected music he created in the last 20 years of his life, 1972 to ’92. This is music of beauty and oftentimes deep serenity. Ranging from pieces made of a sparse, seemingly windswept freeze of notes to a delicious hotpot of environmental noise, from re-written Satie to exuberant circuses of sound, this is music of amazing variety and scintillating colours, deep meditation, humour and elation. It is a joy to be celebrating the work of this incredible artist!
“I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson.
And so we make our lives by what we love.” – John Cage
Child of Tree will be recorded for broadcast on Nova, RTÉ lyric fm’s new music programme presented by Bernard Clarke, Sundays from 9pm.
Triskel Arts Centre
Tel: 021 427 2022
Website: HYPERLINK "http://www.triskelartscentre.ie/"www.triskelartscentre.ie
Triskel acknowledges the financial support from the Arts Council
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