John White, performing live at Tate Modern 2005 |
Date:
Friday September 16 2005
Duration: 2 hours
Venue: Tate Modern
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John White Performance Archive
John White is a UK composer and lecturer, born in Berlin in 1936. White has studied Composition, Piano, Trombone, Tuba and Organ. White joined Alvin Lucier on the night of
Open Sound Systems to perform the following work.
Originally composed by White in 1984, as part of an installation at Exhibiting Space by the systemic
artist Keith Richardson-Jones. The composition was re-worked for live performance as part of the Open Sound Systems programme.
Instrumentation: sequenced material (based on
traditional bell-ringing changes) on a Yamaha CX5 Mk2 computer plus element
of live performance on a small Yamaha synthesiser (DX100). The performance is affectionately dedicated to the memory
of K.R-J. who died earlier this year.
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| John White - Ricercare 1983, 128k mp3 10min |
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Contemporary Composers' Archive
Highlighted here, are three up and coming, contemporary composers,
each invited by Curator, Seth Kim Cohen to respond and demonstrate scrores inspired by System Theory
or the work of Alvin Lucier and John White. See below for further notes on each composition.
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| John Lely - White Noise Machine 2004, 128k mp3 10 min |
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| Tim Parkinson - Two Cardboard Boxes 2003, 128k mp3 10min |
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| Andrew Morgan - Times Three 2005 |
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John Lely White Noise Machine 2004
Most of John Lely's music makes use of simple counting systems and gradual
processes that allow for spaces to open up. This piece features a very simple
'people process' - the players perform the same series of actions, each at their
own rate. White Noise Machine was composed in November 2004, and is dedicated to John White.
Performers: John Lely and the Open Sound System ensemble.
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Tim Parkinson Two Cardboard Boxes 2003
Written for a tour involving no instruments; but any other sound producing
means. Both players play clear and simple rhythmic patterns in complete
disregard of one another for about ten minutes. "(Practicality is (almost) everything)", adds Tim Parkinson.
Performers: James Saunders and Tim Parkinson.
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Andrew Morgan Times Three 2005
Write a 60 second piece for 3 instruments using only 3 notes per instrument. Write a sequence of 60 second
variations on that piece where each variation has 3 times as many notes per part as the previous
(3, 9, 27, 81, 243, 729). Each new variation should add notes to the previous variation, and every note
must relate to another by a 3rd, be it in relation to another instrument or its own neighbouring notes.
The final variation should be just at the edge of what is possible on the instruments and probably won't
be able to be performed perfectly. Performers: The Korros Ensemble (Eliza Marshall - Flute; Nicholas Ellis - Clarinet; Camilla Pay - Harp)
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