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When?Saturday, June 9 at 8 pm

 

Where?

Time & Space Limited

Hudson, NY

www.timeandspace.org

 

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tech rider

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two tables (one for Scott/Stephen, one for Viv, both on stage simultaneously)

two submixers, stereo output for Scott/Stephen, 6 channel okay

four (or five) mics, four mic stands

1 mic reserved for David and mic stand

2 mics for Sarah (two boom stands, one low if possible)

1 mic for Kenta and mic stand (will bring own amp)

1 wireless mic for Ione (she also has own, can bring if needed, let her know)

broom (sweep stage for Heloise before sound check and again before performance)

projector

screen

laptop (for Julia and/or David) & possibly DVD player (if David doesn't use laptop)

one warm body to run Julia's and David's projection (we passed on Julia's

instructions for this earlier)

 

to do in sound check

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spike projector/laptop whatever

spike Julia's chairs

spike Raylene chair and Gayle's instrument

sweep floor

 

suggested sound check order

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5:00-5:20 Julia

5:20-5:40 Kim

(then most of tonight's performers can be released for a decent dinner break)

5:40-6:00 Raylene

6:00-6:20 Heloise

(Viv and Scott/Stephen could set up early - 6? - on tables if there's a place to do that not on stage)

6:20-6:40 Viv

6:40-7:10 Scott/Stephen

7:10-7:20 David

7:20-7:30 overrun

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house opens at 7:30

 

 

 

first half 49 minutes of music (run time close to an hour)

 

(preset: Scott/Stephen quartet and Viv trio, each on 1/2 of stage, left in place from sound check, can half the stage at a time be lit?)

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The Worldwide Tuning Mediation by Pauline Oliveros

for company and audience

7 minutes

notes and score

 

 

The World Wide Tuning Meditation is offered in the spirit of bringing

many people together through sharing a simple way of sounding and

listening together. Sounding in the way proposed is open to all

regardless of experience. Language is not a barrier as there are no

words only vowel sounds that are common to all.

 

Through following the instructions given below there will at first be

clouds or clusters of sounds. Eventual the clouds and clusters

transform into harmonies with common tones moving through the sound

field as tuning takes place on many levels actually and metaphorically.

 

The World Wide Tuning Meditation (2007) by Pauline Oliveros

 

Begin by taking a deep breath and letting it all the way out with air sound.

Listen with your mind's ear for a tone.

 

On the next breath using any vowel sound, sing the tone that you have silently perceived on one comfortable breath.

 

Listen to the whole field of sound the group is making.

Select a voice distant from you and tune as exactly as possible to the tone you are hearing from that voice.

 

Listen again to the whole field of sound the group is making.

Contribute by singing a new tone that no one else is singing.

 

Continue by listening then singing a tone of your own or tuning to the tone of another voice alternately.

 

 

Commentary:

 

Always keep the same tone for any single breath. Change to a new tone on another breath.

Listen for distant partners for tuning

Sound your new tone so that it may be heard distantly.

 

Communicate with as many difference voices as possible.

 

Sing warmly!

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An Improvisation

Scott Smallwood, Stephen Moore, and Ikue Mori (laptops), Kenta Nagai (shamisen/guitar)

15 minutes

no notes desired

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Alsaviva

Viv Corringham (vocals), Sarah Weaver (trombone and didjeridu), Al Margolis (violin and sampler)

7 minutes

no notes desired

 

(strike both ensembles, and set up chairs and projector)

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Threads of Peace by Julia White

Lisa Barnard, Anne Bourne, Viv Corringham, Caterina De Re, Kathy Kennedy, Kim McCarthy, Kristin Norderval, Katharina Von Rütte, Margrit Schenker, Julia White, and Gayle Young (vocalists); Ione (spoken word); Nancy Beckman (shakuhachi); Monique Buzzarté and Stuart Dempster (trombone); Raylene Campbell (accordion); Scot Gresham-Lancaster (electronics); Norman Lowrey (singing masks); dominique mazeaud (listener/walker)

20 minutes

notes received

 

In January 2007, artist Julia White put out a call for stories, dreams, images, thoughts and experiences of peace. Threads of Peace is the culmination of this process. Julia has woven these stories into one long, scrolling fabric score for this large ensemble performance. Instrumentalists and vocalists come together for this improvised sonic prayer of peace in our time. The audience is beckoned into the core of this ritual piece/peace through listening. May this collective listening and the music that emerges from it, activate the possibility of peace within ourselves and the world that we share.

 

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Intermission

15 minutes

(strike Julia's chairs, set up whatever's playing the DVD)

 

second half 39 minutes of music (run time close to 45)

 

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Wecome (back)

David Felton

7 minutes

no notes desired

 

(strike projector and whatever played the DVD)

 

Whose Who's Who

Heloise Gold and Monique Buzzarté

12 minutes

no notes desired

 

(set armless chair for Raylene and Gayle's instruments)

 

Red Eared Sliders

Raylene Campbell (accordion) and Gayle Young (columbine, amaranth, and various musical objects)

10 minutes

notes received

Gayle and Raylene met at the Deep Listening Retreat at Big Indian about six years ago and have never had the opportunity to collaborate with each other until now. The online collaborations using Skype for the Deep Listening Convergence have provided these two artists with the opportunity to develop and explore their musical relationship through free improvisation. Gayle and Raylene have discovered some very interesting parallels between their various instruments during their rehearsals together and are very pleased to be performing together for the very first time (in person) at the Deep Listening Convergence concerts in June.

 

(strike chair and Gayle's instruments)

 

Floating Prayers - Throwing stones of meaning into the ocean of consciousness by Kim McCarthy

Heloise Gold (dance); Lisa Barnard, Viv Corringham, Kathy Kennedy, Kim McCarthy, Kristin Norderval, Katharina Von Rütte, and Margrit Schenker (vocalists); Monique Buzzarté, Stuart Dempster, & Sarah Weaver (trombone); dominique mazeaud (listener/walker)

7-10 minutes

notes received

 

Churches, Mosques, Temples and certain mountains or rivers are examples of sacred places, their walls or cliffs "holding the space" of focused spiritual activity. While spirit is not confined within these boundaries, such spaces serve to bring people together in community. In much of African shamanism community is the soul of spirit and water a central conduit. Like spirit, water's boundaries are fluid; its forms are many as are its functions. In tonight's piece the trombones serve to "hold the space," surrounding the audience and musicians in community. The walkers on stage signify prayers. Like undulating water, their movements reflect the many forms and functions of prayer, such as blessings, requests for personal or global insight or healing, or expressions of gratitude. The walkers alternate between randomly toning single syllables of the above sentence, voicing prayers, or engaging in silent prayers. The movement remains continuous even though it may bypass perception. Not all meaningful experience follows a linear, conscious path, not unlike one's spiritual path.

 

Utilizing two features of the Deep Listening practice, I invite you to move freely between focal listening (focusing on one sound) and global listening (listening to everything possible to hear). Focus on the tones, whispers, silences, or movement as they embrace you. Allow yourself to fully embrace them. Like the soloist, notice as you take in a specific experience and its infinite connection with the global experience. Notice what stirrings or insights emerge over the next few days. Reject nothing. Contemplate what meaning the stone holds for you as you throw it into the ocean of consciousness. Belief in spirit is not necessary. Like the sounds tonight, spirit hears our truth and facilitates our path. Community deepens this experience. The current times are calling for community. Such experience is, for me, the most powerful result of the Deep Listening practice.

 

 

Total concert length (with intermission) - two hours, ie 8-10pm.

 

Performers Needed for Sound Check:

(and box dinner count - 29 + tech crew)

Lisa Barnard

Nancy Beckman

Anne Bourne

Monique Buzzarté

Raylene Campbell

Viv Corringham

Catarina De Re

Stuart Dempster

David Felton

Heloise Gold

Scot Gresham-Lancaster

Ione

Kathy Kennedy

(Norman Lowrey)

Al Margolis

Kim McCarthy

dominique mazeud

Stephan Moore

Ikue Mori

Kenta Nagai

Kristin Norderval

Pauline Oliveros

Katharina von Rütte

Margrit Schenker

Scott Smallwood

Sarah Weaver

Julia White

Gayle Young

(+ Tom Bickely for box dinner count) And tech crew (minus Scot, above)

 

+ in performance rest of the Company (Oliveros)