Thomas Piercy: http://www.thomaspiercy.com/
Bin Li: http://www.bindavidli.com/
Melissa Grey & David Morneau welcome Thomas Piercy
Friday, October 26, 2018
8:00pm
@ Flower Cat HQ – by invitation only
New York, New York
Program
Trappist-1
music by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau, Thomas Piercy
Voices, for hichiriki and electronics
music by Bin Li
performed by Thomas Piercy
Voices
(Constantine P. Cavafy, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)
Imagined voices, and beloved, too,
of those who died, or of those who are
lost unto us like the dead.
Sometimes in our dreams they speak to us;
sometimes in its thought the mind will hear them.
And with their sound for a moment there return
sounds from the first poetry of our life–
like music, in the night, far off, that fades away.
This piece, in Fuzhounese (the language of my childhood in Fuzhou, China), is dedicated to Thomas Piercy and to all those who fly on planes. – Bin Li
directed by Melissa Grey
with David Morneau
co-produced by l'Artiste ordinaire & Composers Concordance
for Composers Concordance's 7th Annual Festival: The Art of Sound
20 April 2018 @ 7:30pm
Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets
Outside, on top of the subway grate, in the pedestrian zone
Times Square, NYC
Melissa Grey directs a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation (1971), a vocal improvisation beginning with a single pitch, at the outdoor site of Max Neuhaus’s sound installation Times Square (1977). Featuring Robert Kirkbride.
‘Tuned Squared’ is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement / Creative Learning, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Melissa Grey directs a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation (1971), a vocal improvisation beginning with a single pitch, at the outdoor site of Max Neuhaus’s sound installation Times Square (1977).
performed by Sound Studies students
Times Square, New York City
2019 February 5
