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Hi folks, the following is from Paul Dresher, well-known composer and looper and occasional LD member. The piece he is performing here employs three EDP's, which he doesn't mention in the blurb below. It is a rare opportunity to see Paul doing his looping, so if you are in the area you may want to try to attend. sorry I didn't forward it sooner, but I was a little preoccupied lately and rather forgot myself! But there are shows April 25-28, which I'm hoping to make it to. kim >RE: Sound Stage in San Francisco, April 17-28 > >Friends: > >Please forgive this intrusive non-personal e-mail but as usual of late >around here, we've not gotten any press support for this upcoming event so >I'm resorting to this e-mail to help get the word out, in case you haven't >received a mailer or other form of communication about Sound Stage. Below >is the information about our upcoming performances in San Francisco. > >I started working on this piece back in 1996 and finally premiered it last >summer in Minneapolis. In it I've tried to combine all the threads of my >music-making background: experimental opera/music theater, chamber music, >musical instrument invention, and electro-acoustic music. I think we've >made some very unusual in this collaborative process and I hope you'll >consider coming. Surprisingly, it's also a program that is good for kids >and families, particularly the Sunday afternoon matinees, when we will do >a >shorter version of the piece and also invite the audience up on stage to >play the instruments after the show. If you want to check out >somepictures >and sound on the piece, check our web site at: > >www.dresherensemble.org > >Thanks, > >Paul Dresher > >Press Release: > >THE PAUL DRESHER ENSEMBLE >Presents the Bay Area Premiere of >S O U N D S T A G E > >Conceived and composed by Paul Dresher >Text and Direction by Rinde Eckert >Instruments designed and built by Daniel Schmidt and Paul Dresher >Lighting and Visual Design by Alex Nichols >Sound Design by Greg Kuhn >Performed by Paul Dresher and the Minneapolis-based new music ensemble >Zeitgeist > >April 17 - 28, 2002 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, >701 Mission St, San Francisco > >Tickets: 415/978-2787 > >April 17-20 & April 25-27 8PM >Special Family Matinees Sunday April 21 & 28th at 2 PM > > > " Forget the drum circle, forget the hurdy-gurdy. This beats them >all ... It's a musical jungle gym - every square inch playable ... 80 >minutes of non-stop performance ... Works such as this are the future of >the arts: a cross-pollination of music, visual art and theater limited >only >by the imagination." Minneapolis Star Tribune > >SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21, 2002-Sound Stage, an extraordinary new work that >explores the means and meaning of music making, will be presented by the >Paul Dresher Ensemble in its Bay Area premiere at The Forum at Yerba Buena >Center for the Arts from Wed., April 17 - 28, 2002. Conceived and >composed >by Paul Dresher with direction and text by Rinde Eckert, Sound Stage is >performed by Dresher and the members of the Minneapolis-based new music >ensemble, Zeitgeist. > > Sound Stage was commissioned by Zeitgeist, the Walker Art Center, >and Helena Presents, and the highly-acclaimed World Premiere was given in >Minneapolis in June, 2001. The piece takes audiences on a journey through >new sounds and sights, traditional instrumental virtuosity, deadpan >physical humor, vivid lighting design and a spare text that finds the >poetry in physics and the mystery in music's emotional power. > > The elegant visual centerpiece of the work designed and >constructed >by Dresher and Daniel Schmidt, is a 17 1/2 foot rolling A-frame with two >17 >foot pendulums swinging on either side. Every surface of this >extraordinary >creation produces sound, and the performers can move both within and >without, playing a variety of new and traditional instruments. > >At the end of the 80-minute performance, the audience is welcomed on the >stage to explore the instruments with the assistance of the designers and >performers, creating their own music in an impromptu musical playground >for >both children and adults. ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com