GMPU Experimental Music Workshop – Noise, Silence, Action

In this event, the GMPU Experimental Music Workshop will perform works by Pullitzer Prize recipient, Diné musician and artist Raven Chacon; experimental music mavericks Christian Wolff and James Tenney; and founding member of the Fluxus Movement Alison Knowles. Each work explores alternative forms of musical notation including graphical scores and text-based event scores that result in sounds and actions that challenge the very definition of music and prompt innovative and unconventional performance practices. These works also encourage a new form of listening and engaging with music by probing extremal and liminal musical spaces: from the almost imperceptibly soft and sparse to the loud and dense. In some cases, the music even reaches „beyond sound“ through the consideration of colonial histories and the navigation of social systems and their corresponding power dynamics.

Raven Chacon
American Ledger No. 1

Christian Wolff
For 1, 2 or 3 People

James Tenney
For Percussion Perhaps, Or… (night)

Alison Knowles
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