Mar 24-London-Veiled Conversation No. 9 by Pedro Lasch: An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words / Showroom
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Sound Threshold presents
Veiled Conversation No. 9 by Pedro Lasch
An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words.
This is the First Session of The Listening Project curated by Sound Threshold (Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati).
Where a space for collective listening, for sharing stories, songs and thoughts about the social production of sound is created.
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 6.30 pm – 9 pm
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street, London, NW8 8PQ
About this session
The compositions of John Cage’s are talked about so often that they have become canonical. Paradoxically, they are rarely physically experienced, especially in collective settings. For this special Listening Session on the social production of sound, Pedro Lasch invites us to remedy the situation by listening together to a recording of Cage’s Empty Words (1977).
Originally performed for a large Italian audience and lasting two and a half hours, Cage’s musical reading of manipulated words and syllables begins with the conventionally solemn silence of classical music halls. The work’s simplicity and iconoclasm, however, eventually causes a riot to break out. This crescendo of support and resistance to the artist, as well as the audible manifestation of the social tensions produced by the formalism of the work, are beautifully registered in the recording that Lasch is sharing.
Some of the social and perceptual modalities we will use to listen to Cage’s work belong to Lasch’s Veiled Conversations, an ongoing project that creates unusual conditions for both formal and casual conversations as it limits the visibility of those who speak and those who listen.
The event will be structured in three parts and most determined by the event’s participants. Empty Words by John Cage will be played throughout the evening, functioning as a ‘durational’ material to listen and react to. While we will listen silently to Cage for some time at the beginning, the second part of the event will consist in the overlapping presentation of audio recordings, texts or ‘sound gestures’ brought by specifically invited individuals, materials that may make our listening or non-listening visible or, in any non-harmful way, alter the social conditions of our listening.
In the third part of the session, everyone in the audience will be invited to bring their own sound-generating devices (e.g. CD player or props) and voices, to add another uncontrolled aural level to the recorded composition. The event will be ended with a group discussion as the sounds keep playing.
No booking is required. For further info please write to: soundthreshold@gmail.com
About Sound Threshold
Sound Threshold was established in 2007 by Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati, as a long-term research project which explores the relationships between site and sound. The project is grounded on a shared background and interest in literature, experimental music, art history, and over a decade of experience in writing and in curating visual and sonic arts projects.
Sound Threshold investigates the idea of threshold as an extended metaphor of boundary, frontier, track, border and difference – not only visual traces but also natural elements, literary references, acoustic phenomena.
Since its inception Sound Threshold has initiated and developed a programme of events and artists’ commissions in collaboration with international scientific research centres, as well as with museums and art galleries: Music and Sound Through The Landscape, Trentino - Italy 2007-2008; The Listening Project, London, 2010.
Sound Threshold is a no-profit organisation based in London.
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About Pedro Lasch:
Pedro Lasch is an artist, educator, and cultural producer whose preoccupation with the theory and practice of a socially engaged art has led to the formulation of an aesthetics based on public interventions, social interactions, games, and temporal rearrangements. In addition to his individual work in a wide range of disciplines including drawing, painting, video, installation and performance, he leads ongoing projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as the 16Beaver Group.
Born and raised in Mexico City, he usually splits his time between New York City and Durham (NC), where he is Assistant Research Professor of Visual Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is currently on leave from Duke, and based in London.
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Sound Threshold presents
Veiled Conversation No. 9 by Pedro Lasch
An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words…..
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