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COLLIDE-O-SCOPE MUSIC presents:

“THREE FROM THE REVOLUTION YEARS: 1965-1969 ”

Augustus Arnone, Christopher Bailey, Lou Bunk — artistic directors

STEPHEN DRURY

"CAGE CENTENNIAL" including Etudes Australes bk III.

Issue Project Room

Tickets: 15$

Collide-O-Scope Music presents music by Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Phillip Glass in a program dedicated to one of the most volatile and exciting periods in our recent musical past, the late ‘60’s. Against the backdrop of global conflict and cataclysmic social transformations, composers in musical centers around the world initiated an unprecedented period of experimentation, shattered boundaries, and a reinvention of the performative experience. This program presents a sampling of watershed works that epitomize the ferment and groundbreaking forays into the unknown which broadly characterize music of the period. Terry Riley’s Tread On The Trail(1965) is one of two modular ensemble works composed in the wake of his wildly successful In C. Tread On The Trail, for unspecified performers, further explores spontaneous formal configurations and reconfigurations of a static collection of materials, but in a more chromatic setting that borrows heavily from the jazz idiom. Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Spiral(1968), is a work for soloist on any instrument or combination of instruments in combination with a shortwave receiver. Abstract, concrete, and musical sounds picked up from the receiver are imitated by the soloist and subsequently transformed according to rigorously conceived parametric considerations. Finally, Phillip Glass’s Music In Fifths(1969) is one of the culminative works composed by Glass during a particularly prolific period of activity between the years 1967-69, just after the composer had first heard music of Steve Reich. A sprawling diatonic work of repeating figures for any number of performers, Music In Fifths is an important early example of the aesthetic Glass would explore throughout his career.

Now in it’s third season, Collide-O-Scope Music is a contemporary music collective with a focus on presenting a diverse spectrum of music and visual media, emphasizing the integral connection between emerging technologies and the formation of new aesthetic environments. Led by pianist Augustus Arnone and composers Chris Bailey and Lou Bunk the group offers an eclectic mix of newly composed works and essential classics from the modern repertory. In keeping with the group’s mission of integrating a maximally diverse range of musical materials and approaches, programming has featured a blend of both acoustic and electronic compositions as well as juxtaposing fixed compositional forms with improvisational, indeterminate, and interactive music. A particular focus is given to musical works that explore innovative or extended media. This includes extended instrumental techniques, microtonal composition, electronic sound and signal processing, and non-traditional notation or instruments, as well as conceptual extensions such as the application of innovative theoretical/mathematical models and indeterminacy. Composers represented include seminal pioneers John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Iannis Xenakis, Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Phillip Glass, and Alvin Lucier as well as emerging Americans Jason Eckardt, Edmund Campion, Stephen Gorbos, Christopher Bailey, David Smooke, and Michael Gordon. Collide-O-Scope Music instrumentalists have included performers from a number of New York’s premiere contemporary music groups including Bang On A Can, ICE, Talea Ensemble, and the Da Capo Chamber Players.

PROGRAM:

Tread On The Trail(1965), Terry Riley

Spiral(1968), Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music In Fifths(1969), Phillip Glass

PERFORMERS:

Augustus Arnone, Christopher Bailey, Lou Bunk, Levy Lorenzo, Mimi Morris-Kim, Garry Ianco