seattle improvised music

sim & non-sequitur present:

michael pisaro

california Institute of the arts professor and wandelweiser composer and guitarist

20 & 21 august 2010
chapel performance space
8pm
$5-15 sliding scale

20 august:
michael pisaro performs the north american premiere of a new composition by the guitarist, fields have ears (6)

21 August:
tyler wilcox, gust burns, mara sedlins, john teske, wilson shook, and matt marble perform selections from pisaro’s harmony series.

“I often have the feeling that I am looking for a kind of boundarywithin music. That would be a place not at the definitional borders, between what is and not music, but someplace internal to music. The model for this, in my mind, is the Dedekind cut, which in effect opens an infinitesimal gap in numerical space between what lies above and below, without closing the infinite space between them. (Thus lies between 3.1415 and 3.1416 and identifies between these numbers an infinitely refined mathematical object.)

It sometimes seems like an impossibly small space in which to operate: for instance, at a location just above and below musical raw material: chords, scales, durations, silences, performance practices, etc. Sometimes, a very narrow pathway through this space leads me to what feels like a new world, where I find the possibility of suggesting a music that is present in its absence and vice versa.”