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Artist:
S.E.M. ENSEMBLE
Title:
Spoken Music Concert At Paula Cooper Gallery
Label:
DOG W/A BONE
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.00
Catalog #:
DWAB 005CD
The
S.E.M. Ensemble
's
Spoken Music Concert
took place on Tuesday, February 6, 1990, at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. The S.E.M. Ensemble (director
Petr Kotik
,
Joseph Kubera
,
Chris Nappi
, and
Ben Neill
) performed a series of text works with a number of guest performers, including
John Cage
,
Dick Higgens
,
Jackson Mac Low
, and
Anne Tardos
. John Cage's "Empty Words," written in 1973-1974, is arguably the most musical of his texts, and a rare recording of John Cage performing his own text pieces. Made up of fragments from the journals of
Henry David Thoreau
, it consists of four parts. The first is a chance-derived mix of phrases, words, syllables, and single letters; subsequent parts each eliminate one of these textual elements from the mix. By the fourth part (performed here), there is nothing left but single letters. As the text becomes simpler and simpler, silences become more and more prominent. Includes a 12-page booklet with texts by Jackson Mac Low and
James Pritchett
, and originally issued in 2002 on Dog w/a Bone.
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