October 2006 | 7:30pm each night
film screening: Thursday 19 October, 6:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St.
$15 / $20 each night
Tickets at
Ticketmaster.ca or Charge-by-Phone 604.280.3311 & at Zulu Records
Vancity Theatre presents
Silence John Cage (films featuring John Cage)
October 17 | 7:30pm
Vancity Theatre
1181 Seymour Street (at Davie)
Adult: $9.50,
Student/Senior: $7.50,
Valid VIFC membership required; $12 (includes ticket price of your first film)
In anticipation of the 2006 Vancouver New Music Festival, Silence John Cage, the Vancity Theatre presents a 90-minute selection of films representing the varied contribution of Cage to film. The selection includes works by Cage (as in the soundtrack to Herbert Matter's Works of Calder), works featuring Cage's sound (Stan Brakhage's In Between, Lawrence Brose's Ryoanji) and a portrait of Cage (Jud Yalkut's John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point).
www.vifc.org |
604.683.FILM (3456).
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Video In presents
Promenade
October 17 | 6pm -
Main Street
October 19 | 4pm Vancouver Business District
October 21 | 2pm Commercial Drive
Free admission
Through the decades local collaborations in sound art and performance have been influenced by John Cage, Happenings and Fluxus. From the Western Front and Video In to Inter_mission and the Disasteroids, calculated non-art scores have been passed on. Each group has been determined to explore playfulness and experimentation without artistic authority.
The current generation at Video In will celebrate by parading Cage scores down Commercial Drive, Main Street and in the Business District. You are welcome to join in.
http://www.videoinstudios.com |
604.872.8337 ext. 3
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Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia
in association with Vancouver New Music present
Imaginary Landscape IV
First Construction
October 18 | 7:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Admission $15/$10
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts
SFU Contemporary Performance Ensemble
This ensemble of students from SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts and led by Daniel Tones, performs Imaginary Landscape IV for twelve radios. Two performers operate each radio, one dialing the stations, the other controlling amplitude and timbre. Though the score gives notation for these three aspects, the content of the radio signal is unknown creating a captivating balance of structured uncertainty.
www.sfu.ca/sca
University of British Columbia Percussion Ensemble
Under the direction of Vern Griffiths, the ensemble performs Cage's First Construction. This is Cage's first composition using fixed rhythmic structures. First Construction uses standard and unconventional instruments such as anvils, water gong and car brake-drums.
www.music.ubc.ca
Also performing this evening are Kaffe Matthews, Fringe Group, Jean Routhier, Phil Thomson and Ben Wilson.
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Access Artist Run Centre presents
Rusty Cages
October 13 14 | 8pm
Access Artist Run Centre
206 Carrall Street
Admission free/by donation
Featuring: Lief Hall w/ Lee Hutzulak, Kenny Roux, Shanto Bhattacharya, Ben Wilson, Donato Mancini and others to be announced.
Rusty Cages is a small concert series of local artists who play at basement parties, bars, and other informal social situations as much as in academic or concert settings. Presented in the intimate (small) space of the Access Project Room, the series will feature denatured renditions of Cage pieces, baby mesostics, indy pop-influenced electroacoustics and more.
Curated by Owen Plummer and James Whitman.
http://vaarc.ca |
604.689.2907
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Belkin Satellite presents
What Sound? What Silence? - Fluxus, Musical Events, and John Cage
Opening October 20 | 5:30 8pm;
Sculptures Musicales (short version) performed by Giorgio Magnanensi and Chris Rolfe (Long version to be performed November 2)
Gallery Hours:
October 21 - November 12
Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 5 pm.
Belkin Satellite
555 Hamilton Street
Vancouver, BC
Free admission
This exhibition presents selected works by Fluxus artist George Brecht, Zaj artist Walter Marchetti and others for whom John Cage's ideas and musical innovations acted as a catalyst and symbiotic influence. Brecht, a student of Cage in the late 1950s, investigates ideas about the event and the artistic and theatrical possibilities of chance in Water Yam. The work consists of a box of event cards with each card offering vague directions to be enacted by the reader. Inspired by his musical friendship with Cage, Marchetti's Twenty Solos from The Hunt includes bird whistles accompanied by instructions. Gallery visitors are invited to perform this musical score and explore the possibilities beyond traditional composition and experience.
http://www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca/satellite | 604 687 3174
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UBC Contemporary Players present
A John Cage Portrait
27 October, 2006 | 12pm
UBC Recital Hall
6361 Memorial Road
Free admission
The UBC Contemporary Players, led by Giorgio Magnanensi, present a noon-hour program of music by John Cage.
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